posted on June 19, 2001 04:43:19 PM
I wonder what ebay plans as the next feature evolution?
I can forsee ebay eventually charging to have your items listed in their Recommendations emails.
This may not seem workable at the moment, but imagine after a few months when users have become used to receiving these emails. The next step is to offer big sellers top spot on the emails, for a fee of course, and then eventually only those that pay ebays special 'recommendation' fees will have their items included in the emails.
posted on June 19, 2001 04:50:38 PMI wonder what ebay plans as the next feature evolution? I can forsee ebay eventually charging to have your items listed in their Recommendations emails.
ack, what a thought!! that'd be the certain end of the small sellers on ebay. for that matter, it'd be the end of a lot of buyers, too, since many are there for the fun online flea market, 'who knows what'll turn up' atmosphere.
kittyx3
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[ edited by kittykittykitty on Jun 19, 2001 04:51 PM ]
posted on June 19, 2001 05:54:32 PM
I think this could go either way. Like the jacket auction and many posters have said, the recommendations you get usually have nothing to do with what you're looking for.
Since most people don't like spam, this could just be another thing for people to opt out of, like the watch list, favorite searches, etc. Except with these, since you're not necessarily sign in when you search, eBay had to make them opt in instead of opt out.
I do support large sellers with more than one of each of their items, and think eBay just reaks for sticking it to them with this newest flaw in their system.
