Comments on: Is eBay dying because Facebook and YouTube are more fun?

By: Nathan Lee

Nathan Lee — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:02:29 +0000

I’m sorry – 2.6 BILLION dollars for a $60 million dollar VoIP company that couldn’t turn a profit.

AND now theres a patent issue. 2.6 Billion Dollars for FReeeeeeeeeeeee.

By: Nathan Lee

Nathan Lee — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:48:26 +0000

Facebook and Youtube have NOTHING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with Ebay’s downfall.

It has everything to do with Ebay itself. They’ve spiked prices on sellers and made it a very unfriendly place to do Business. They don’t even let sellers leave negative feedback to bad customers.

Its hard to find things I used to find on the site easily. Ebay screwed itself with it’s over 1 billion dollar purchase of Skype – which they have done NOTHING with. They just handed over 1.6 billion dollars for nothing basically.

They’re trying to make up for the loss in all the wrong ways. Amazon will come back on top again.

By: Bonehead

Bonehead — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:24:16 +0000

ebay deserves to die

By: Bonehead

Bonehead — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:20:13 +0000

The problem with ebay is it has no competition. Therefore it doesn’t have to lie down to the needs of its customers, it simply lays the law down to its customers – like it or not. It’s a complete monopoly with no-one policing it and it’s getting away with murder. It’s a complete travesty to the way in which modern business should run. In any other form of business such a monopoly would be illegal. And Paypal is the epitomy of what is wrong with ebay. They control everything and take their cut every inch of the way. Isn’t it time that a little competition came along?

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:03:10 +0000

Killing the goose that lays golden eggs is more than “too greedy”. It is stunningly stupid.

The killer is eBay CEO John Donahoe and all his stunningly stupid changes!

By: Peter T.

Peter T. — Sun, 24 May 2009 07:51:32 +0000

I agree with Iva – eBay is too greedy. You get charged for the advertisement, charged a fee when your item sells and then charged another fee if the buyer uses PayPal. What’s more, if PayPal is used, you cannot transfer funds to your account until you have at least AUD$15.00. In my case, I sold an item for AUD$10.00 and the buyer used PayPal. I will never be able to get my money until I chose to sell another item on eBay. eBay is simply about greed!

By: Iva Headache

Iva Headache — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:12:21 +0000

The reason Ebay is going down the drain is because it got too greedy.

It basically rubbed out all the small transactions by forcing people to use Paypal ,which basically eliminated small profit high volume listings through it’s cost.

You could clearly see a 40% drop off on items listed after this event.

I was a seller and refuse to use PayPal and hence Ebay – people don’t have to put up with this heavy handed approach. Go elsewhere.

If Ebay was to reverse this bad business decision I and many others would return.

So it’s no surprise that Ebay is going bad – it got it’s just deserts.