posted on June 17, 2001 06:56:08 PM
Okay ebaY has a right to say no more links to off sight web pages on your auction listings.
But what makes me mad is that is may not be applied to everyone reason why I say this.
I was watching Steve Irwin on crocodile hunter and went to discovery.com as they have some items for his up for auction.So as a matter of interest I took a look they where all listed on ebay which is fine but.
But what makes me mad is that there is a link in the description right back to discovery.com for other items for sale connected to the series by way of videos etc.
Its a new seller id and listing so I am sure they where aware of the rules or is ebaY making an exception for them.
If they are then I have a problem with it as all the rules should applied to all not just some.
I emailed powerseller support to see what they think.
But I gues my 40,000 in ebaY fees over the past few years means nothing.
Although I do not like griping and think there is too much on here sometimes this does seem unfair if they are allowed links and we are not.
posted on June 17, 2001 09:02:14 PM
There's a lot of grumbling about a lot of stuff lately - I agree with you - the way the links policy is arbitrarily enforced isn't fair.
The recommendation thing isn't fair either - I'm furious with that even though I sell mostly one of a kind type stuff.
I'll keep listing on eBay, but I've started putting some stuff other places also. I'm thinking about renting some space in town for some of my stuff for the summer.
Selling on eBay was a way for me to get free of a boss. Now eBay is starting to feel like a cranky senile old boss - no logic or reason in what they do, just crap for brains.
While I try not to be too negative about things, I'm starting to feel like the frog in the frying pan about eBay.
As mah momma used to say, "Sadie, if they're going to scr*w you, make them buy you dinner first!" Well, I don't see any dinner invites from eBay.
posted on June 19, 2001 06:03:49 PM
I think eBay is creating most of the negativity. They keep on making people more mad through their corporate selfishness. They also encourage people to turn others in for violating their ridiculous policies. This is really turning eBay into a more negative environment.
posted on June 19, 2001 07:02:06 PM
If they can make YOU mad we are in trouble.
It is like when LBJ was watching the news and and Walter Cronkite asked with weary sadness if all these kids going home in body bags from Vietnam made any sense?
He finally had his nose pushed in the dog do hard enough to smell it, and knew support for the war was over.
I don't think eBay will ever have an epiphany of this sort because it is no longer run in a manner that one person could change the nature of the company. In Detroit we have seen people try to change how some of the auto companies do business and any radical change to the business is simply ignored and rejected by the mass of management. A CEO can make all sorts of wild orders and it just doesn't get done. I think eBay is that big now. Any attempt to return to the community idea is doomed. It was doomed as soon as they went public. Pier wanted to throw a crumb of stock to the early users in respect for them and the investment bankers just laughed at the rube.
posted on June 19, 2001 07:12:50 PM
Did you notice on the "about me" page that among all the auctions they have that recently ended (for big bucks too!), that most of the winning bidders have 0 feedback? Weird...
