posted on July 18, 2002 02:38:17 PM
Per eBay Announcement board -
"Today, eBay announced the financial results for its second quarter ending June 30th, 2002. I'm very happy to report that eBay had another excellent quarter, delivering record results across the board. This clearly demonstrates the vibrancy of our marketplace and the continued loyalty and dedication of our community.
As we saw at eBay Live, eBay's community members are the key to our success. Every day, you help build an ever more successful marketplace. We look forward to working together for even greater success in the future."
GREAT, NOW HOW ABOUT HELPING YOUR SELLERS OUT WITH A FLD ???????
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posted on July 18, 2002 03:26:14 PM
You really don't get it do you? The FLD were never a gift for the sellers, it was to help eBay appear like it was constantly growing. Unless eBay gets in bad finacial trouble, we will never, ever see another FLD. That includes Christmastimes.
posted on July 18, 2002 03:54:05 PM
I may be in the minority on this but here goes. I would hate to try and be selling something on eBay when the "FLD" hits. EBay gets flooded with auctions, and 99% of them are items the seller didn't think worth the 30 cents to list normally. It strains the system.
posted on July 18, 2002 04:01:08 PM
Yes I am with uaru on this one. When I see a free listing day I use that as a day off. I normally have some auctions running seven days a week with about three or four days a month I pick to take a break and catch up on paperwork and any free listing day is always one of those days off !
posted on July 18, 2002 04:34:37 PM
I agree as well. The sellers that routinely list many items and pay a huge amount of money to eBay must really get upset and fire off angry letters to eBay and maybe even a few threats of leaving over the FLD issue. eBay has no choice but to stop the FLD practice and never use it again.
posted on July 18, 2002 06:51:40 PM
Quote by eBay - "This clearly demonstrates the vibrancy of our marketplace and the continued loyalty and dedication of our community. "
Another quote by eBay - "Ms. Whitman has told Wall Street she hoped all fees combined would rise from 7.5 percent to close to 10 percent of total sales."
posted on July 18, 2002 08:54:58 PM
eBay-Australia does not an eBay-USA make. eBay can dink around all they want with it's non-USA sites as they bring in only a very tiny portion of eBay profits ( or eBay may even lose money on those foreign sites ).
The one cent gallery in the USA site was almost a quasi-FLD but they may be as close to any FLD we will ever see in the future.
