Neither si the author of this article – Its dated 2008

Where have you been for the past 12 months then?

“Stop worrying about eBay’s business and how it’s gone awry”.

Indeed. Blogs such as Tamebay have the same people whinging on about Ebay. These same people have dwindling Ebay traffic and sales, yet they masochistically relist and add new stock.

I spent 10 years selling on Ebay, traffic and sales dwindled, so I quit 2 months ago and now focus my selling energies elsewhere. No regrets, and I’m looking forward, not backwards.

Well, alas I think they can be wrong. Maybe not wrong, but I think that eBay is quite happy to lose a significant proportion of the ‘least good’ sellers and replace their sales with enterprise level retailers.

BUSINESS doesnt mean: Manchester-capitalism! Introducing as the big humanist (seems you havent experienced Ebay in the old days, then read their remains of human kindness on their homeside), hooking people over years by providing good business conditions, then whipping them when business gets lower, torturing them with a stupid and immature payment system a.s.o. Im far from whining and know at best, everybody is his own luck’s blacksmith but: Ebay is not worth a dime anymore. Their crisis speaks for itself, because tenthousands “disgruntled, disaffected eBay sellers” cant be wrong.
I hate being right…..

The numbers at the bottom of Ebay headed paper are COMPANY registration number – not CHARITY registration number.

Ebay is a business, not a democracy!

The main responsibility eBay has is to it’s shareholders, & only to make a profit. Not to sellers. No one is forced to use EBay and in many ways it forces us to make better business decisions by adopting its policies from time to time.

I’ve been saying for a while that eBay is a business, not your BFF. Some sellers seem to want the homey little shop where they can chat and make friends, but online businesses simply don’t work that way. If eBay isn’t giving a seller what he wants, then he should go elsewhere. For me, eBay is still working fine as a venue. Sure, they’ve made some changes I don’t like, but it’s their sandbox and they get to make the rules.

Personally, I think the whole feedback thing is overblown. Rating buyers is not a good way to encourage business, so I don’t mind not having buyer feedback. As a customer, are you going to shop somewhere where they can tell the whole world that you stink? The buyers who really are scammers aren’t going to care about feedback because they’ll just set up another account. Most other ecommerce sites don’t rate buyers, so this is more in line with customer expectations. I think a lot of the issue is that feedback has always been a certain way and now people have to adjust how they do business. Hey, change happens. Adapt or die

I do think eBay is overemphasizing the value of feedback and making it a bigger stick than it needs to be, but like I said, they get to make the rules.