posted on September 27, 2000 08:39:14 AM new
Paul star
eBay could be gone tomorrow. eBay motors was one of the big nails in it's coffin. All the other sites are taking advantage of that. I moved to Yahoo give after eBay motors started. I went from around $3,000 a week to nothing. That's right nothing. There was no warning and no customer support. Still isn't.
You can love old eBay all you want but keep your options open. Check all the other sites, start a website. Don't, whatever you do think of eBay as a friend. eBay has made many changes over the last 9 months, very few, if any, helped out the buyers and sellers, despite what you have been told.
As someone has stated in these threads eBay is arrogant and profit driven. Too the point of not giving a damn if you live or die.
Colin R. Young
Rt. 67 Cycle
http://www.rt67cycle.com
posted on September 27, 2000 08:45:26 AM new
Fountainhouse - I will publicly eat my statement if ANYONE can provide PROOF that they actually got 'thousands of dollars' back from one of these scams ... you don't have to be too wise, nor do you have to have any experience in exagerating to figure that out
[ edited by RB on Sep 27, 2000 08:48 AM ]
posted on September 27, 2000 08:59:16 AM new
paulstar ... "Do you have any idea what these Ebay folks are up against?"
Sorry pal, but that's another one of those meaningless statements The fact that eBay has become big and cold is a direct result of their own doing. To suggest that they have become this way because their site is so large and complex only tells me that they screwed up royally when they prepared their business plan, or their intent was to go for the dough all along and too bad for their f(l)ound(er)ing members.
posted on September 27, 2000 01:41:05 PM new
eBay bashing? Well, I guess that's one way to look at it. I know for me it's very difficult to look at what eBay is, and not be deeply concerned and pretty nervous, not to mention frustrated about it.
eBay is, for all practical purposes a monopoly. Maybe not in the legal sense but there is no real competition. Plain and simple. How are people who depend on eBay supposed to feel about that? eBay can do pretty much anything they want and there's very little we can do about it. Where are we going to go? It's not necessarily what eBay does that bothers me, it's what eBay CAN do.
Without real competition, the usual checks and balances of business get short circuited. When eBay has 90% of the market they also have 90% of the power. Power over our ability to make a living selling at auction. I think that's enough to put anyone on edge. Shouldn't it be? Just how happy and complacent should people be about this virtual monopoly?
It really doesn't surprise me that folks question and/or criticize practically everything eBay does. eBay has too much power and they should be watched like a hawk.
posted on September 27, 2000 01:56:56 PM neweBay is, for all practical purposes a monopoly... How are people who depend on eBay supposed to feel about that?
In the overall scheme of things, eBay is relatively new. Whose fault is it if, in this short time, people have made choices which put them in a position of dependency? How about if all those people depending on eBay take a little responsibility for their lives, and make some choices now to lessen that dependency?
posted on September 28, 2000 01:29:18 AM new
"WHY? Because as much as they drive us crazy, they are still, without question, the biggest, baddest mother going. There is no close second...or third for that matter."
There is a term for this in the U.S. and it is called a monopoly. I would bet that we will hear the words Anti-Trust and Ebay together in the future. Don't know when, but it is going to happen if things don't change.
Oh, and for sellers who may think that ebay has the sellers best interest in mind: A while back Ebay announced that is the future it would open a site for auctions directly from the Disney Company. The went so far as to say, "We want to make Ebay the #1 source for all Disney collectibles." They go on to say that this will help the current Ebay sellers who deal in Disney collectibles, since the new auction site will send new bidders to the current ebay site.
Yeah right.
Since then, have we heard anything about this new venture on ebay? No. I sent an email to Ebay 3 months ago asking them when the new site would be us. The reply was; "we don't know for sure, but keep an eye on the announcements."
Well I have kept my eye on the announcements. Nada. No. Nothing. Yet on Disney's site they have a link set up to ebay and a big announcement that the auction site should be open in October.
hmmmm 3 days away to October.
I wonder what are of collecting will next be affected by ebay opening joint auction sites from the Business to the persons.
There is something wrong with companies offering their merchandise for auction.
Would you bid on an auction from Nike for Nike shoes. I would hope not.
posted on September 28, 2000 09:32:55 AM new
So, PAULSTAR- We shouldn't "bash" eBay, but you have no problem ripping them off with the questionable re-listing practices?
