Hopefully, iOffer, Ebid, or some of the other auction sites will take advantage of the situation and grow to compete with Ebay!
Dan
http://www.realsubliminal.com

This boycott of Ebay is not over… It’s just begun… They will be exposed and investigated to the fullest… Just like the bogus 3 million dollar sale…. They called the News the second the auction closed without having evidence that it was a real buyer… In the end, it was bogus, so the man who owns the collection is left with ebay fees for the listing and NO recourse for the phoney buyer…

And the 3 million record sale at Ebay was done by a bogus buyer!!

What Ebay failed to do was verify the buyer and then notify the News Media that this was a bogus bidder!!

The seller lost out on the listing fees with ebay by a deadbeat bidder; the buyer was suspended as his account is not active…

They did this as a futile attempt to take the focal point off of the continueing BOYCOTT OF EBAY!!

They have rigged their system so that the seller is a sitting duck for any type of con artist imagineable…

They lied about a fee decrease, which was actually a 67% increase in fees for the seller…

They have destroyed the very people who helped them become the big power business that it is…

WE WILL CONTINUE TO BOYCOTT EBAY and make the public and stock holders aware of the lies in this company… They will be investigated for padding sales and deceiptful advertizing schemes…

SHAME ON YOU EBAY!! BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU!!

BOYCOTT EBAY FOREVER!!

Some retail analysts have agreed to having a one way feedback system like other retail sites is a good idea but what they seem to forget is that on Ebay a customer is not a customer until someone has paid for something. Seller’s would have to stop filing non paying bidder responses and end up paying double fees to salvage their ratings. Larger sellers who have other outlets will be damaging their reputation on the new feedback system if they have their own retail site or store by having negative comments from Ebay users who simply don’t pay for the item. What seller would want reviews for something they didn’t even sell. The DSR requirements are marginal to get a 15% discount off the fees. I have seen sellers with zero shipping cost barely maintaining customer satisfaction for shipping cost.

They really needed to stabilize their situation but instead of throwing water on the fire they have actually thrown gasoline on it
with their upcoming feedback changes. Sure the stock is down a little bit and has been on a downslide since 2004 but in
my opinion an investor will be lucky to get out now.

Our company has shut down our listings and may not be able to sell again on EBAY with the new feedback changes. The pricing
structures do not matter to us as we could have passed that on to the buyer. Our EBAY fees in 2007 were in the 6 digits and our
sales in the 7 digits. This lost revenue is real for EBAY and this is just from one of their many lost customers this week since
the strike.

This is what happens when a company so large makes such drastic changes. It would have been better to announce and implement it in steps.
For instance, they should have done the price changing first, then the paypal escrow change and then alter the feedback system
with a few months span in between.

Why would a company so large make such a major change to their successful recipe? Businesses
always have peaks and valleys, even McDonalds has suffered market share in the past but would they alter the Big Mac? Any smart
business person knows that something else might be up. Is it because they want to batter their own to stock and buy it back at fire sale prices?
Or is this something an ego driven Meg approved knowing it will tank after she is gone, only to make her actions in the past look better?

In my opinion, Ebay should stop trying to be like Amazon but instead should put focus back to their roots as an outlet for used
and unique merchandise. It was a great place to recycle with the new and the old along side each other. They have obviously forgotten
that many smaller sellers sell their old stuff to buy new stuff on ebay. These smaller sellers who want new merchandise usually just
go to the big box stores.

In the past Ebay has kept their competition at bay but with that gap now closing they have opened up an invite to large companies who could fill
the new void. Believe me Google is not blind and has to see this opportunity and could probably cook something up in a
matter of weeks that will send former and existing sellers running to them leaving Ebay on their knees.

My advice for used and unique sellers is to shop and sell on alternative sites like ioffer.com. For new items Amazon will be a great
alternative. Ioffer has already spiked up to 1/6th the listings quantity that ebay has currently. And if you own Ebay stock DUMP it
while you can before the ramifications are played out.