Global Ebay Strike

[atarimuseum]

Ebay is OUT OF CONTROL !!! Sure, they bait you in with low listing fee's, but the final value fee's are insane, now Paypal will hold fund for 21 days and you can't leave negative feedback against bad buyers---- this is just getting waaaaaaaaaaay out of control:


http://youtube.com/watch?v=23TomS5--nQ&feature=related


http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/07/smbusiness...dex.htm?cnn=yes


Pass this far and wide, the entire classic computer community needs to take a stand and join the strike, yeah I know it hurts not to sell --- sell here in the marketplace forums for a few days, otherwise if you don't stand up against Ebay, its only going to cost more and get worse and worse and worse...


Spread this far and wide, get as many community and news sites to post this on their front pages, everyone needs to stand together, even a tiny percentage of non-activity can make a VERY big statement against the Ebay juggernaut.




Curt

[barythrin]

I'm confused. What's the second link supposed to be? (the url has been filtered incorrectly). The only thing I've found is http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/01/29/ebay.fees.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch regarding the drop in listing prices but an increase in their cut of sold items, which mostly affects folks selling things for under $25 (atleast it hurts them the most).

What is paypal doing then? Not allowing the seller to access the funds for that aloted time?

- John

[curtis]

I'm going to try and honor the strike.

I definitely won't post anything to sell and it'll have to be something really special at a REALLY special price for me to bid on it.

I hope this helps ebay realize what they're doing to the majority of their members. Probably not, but we can hope.

[Yzzerdd]

OK, so even though eBay did increase the final value fees by 2%, most everything else went down, a total decrease from anywhere between $.3 and $10! I personally won't stop selling on eBay. Overall, the savings are higher than the expense. You can't expect to get $100 for $10, and you can't expect to get a crapload of lesser fees without an increase somewhere. Just like when Venezuela, or some other country up the oil prices, or stop supplying oil to us, the price goes up on down the line, which is the gas stations most of us get power from for our cars.

--Ryan

Here are the links for the fee changes:
Basic (http://pages.ebay.com/sell/update08/basic/index.html)
Feature (http://pages.ebay.com/sell/update08/feature/index.html)

[curtis]

Yeah, but the kicker is the restrictions on feedback and the threat of holding paypal payments for up to 21 days.

That and the new CEO referring to buyers and sellers as "noise." Brother, I ain't noise, I'm the reason you're in business! Somebody should auction off a clue for him. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.

The fee shift will probably end up being neutral unless you're selling something really expensive.

Guess we'll see what happens.

[Druid6900]

OK, so even though eBay did increase the final value fees by 2%, most everything else went down, a total decrease from anywhere between $.3 and $10! I personally won't stop selling on eBay. Overall, the savings are higher than the expense. You can't expect to get $100 for $10, and you can't expect to get a crapload of lesser fees without an increase somewhere. Just like when Venezuela, or some other country up the oil prices, or stop supplying oil to us, the price goes up on down the line, which is the gas stations most of us get power from for our cars.

--Ryan

Here are the links for the fee changes:
Basic (http://pages.ebay.com/sell/update08/basic/index.html)
Feature (http://pages.ebay.com/sell/update08/feature/index.html)

Yes, and that's why you pay so much for gas, because you don't do anything about it. It doesn't concern me, one way or the other, because 1) I'd never sell on Flea-Bay again and 2) I rarely buy anything from there.

[Sharkonwheels]

Heh - we pay so much for gas, because the world hates us.

hey - we had a chance.
I GUARANTEE YOU, if Bush hadn't "won" again, things would've improved.

But, since the chump got "voted in" a second time, well, you know the rest of the story.

Just one person's opinion.

* I quoted "won" and "voted in" because, well, we all now that voting fiasco, and the 47 recounts, etc....


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