posted on October 19, 2000 07:44:13 AM
SOLUTION TO ALL OF EBAY"S PROBLEMS and complaints
Here is a solution to everybody's complaints about Ebay's, downtime,reserve auction, listing fees,snipers, insurance, photo lising fees. First, nobody ever sees the reserve price used in an auction. Therefore put in a reserve price of $1,000,000.00. Second, At the end of auction send email and offer to sell to the highest bidder only if the price is decent. Third, say in your listing you will sell to the highest bidder if the price is decent. Now think about it. Ebay gets no final fees. This compensates for crappy service. Ebay goes down. No problem, if bids aren't high enough you don't have to sell. High bidder isn't obligated to buy item. Seller isn't obligated to sell item. Transaction is completed outside Ebay only if everybody is happy. Payment by PayPal etc is outside Ebay anyway. Ebay's insurance is a joke. Have never seen positive post from someone who collected insurance. So that is not important. Best of all it teaches Ebay, if they doen't quit screwing with their system and stabalize, their revenue will plummet. Since they seem to pay no attention to complaints (only want to suck out revenue) Band together, this is a way to tell Ebay, FIXIT OR ELSE.
posted on October 19, 2000 08:18:03 AM
I realize you're joking but the last poster that commented in that vein got banned by eBay shortly after posting his recipe for fee avoidance. Big Brother is watching you!
posted on October 19, 2000 08:28:30 AM
Actually I copied and pasted from Ebay board. It is NOT my plan. I am not that sinister. I just go over to Yahoo when Ebay goes down. WHy hold a grudge? Serves no purpose.
Ebay will know full well that folks are not happy if they do not list there.
