posted on January 5, 2001 02:32:00 PM new
I started selling with you guys 2 years ago. Most of the people I knew laughed at me and blamed my insanity on being new to the cyber world. I liked Yahoo. I liked all it had to offer and it was like family. I kept listing there and over the last 2 years I have watched it grow. I liked that feeling. I also enjoyed seeing the people who laughed at me start using the site. I TOOK PRIDE IN YAHOO AUCTIONS AND MY AUCTION BOOTH AND THE FEEDBACK WHICH I ACQUIRED. I worked hard for all of that. And I didn't run back to eBay everytime Yahoo Auctions hit a bump. I bumped with you and took the slumps with you and kept listing and selling. Somewhere along the way you decided you wanted to be like eBay instead of over take eBay and you started imposing rules which eBay already had and they hadn't worked there so why you thought they were the solution here was beyond me. But still I stayed and still I listed and LESS I sold!!!!! And the buyers kept leaving. Either they couldn't bid because they weren't allowed to or they couldn't get the system to work. And I still had deadbeat bidders and they were still messing with my auctions. And I stayed and kept listing. And then someone decided somewhere that with all these sellers they could take care of some financial troubles pretty easily and all of a sudden I am out of business and for 2 years of loyalty I get a slap in the face.
I hope you really are listening and reading these and I hope you realize that this group of sellers are going somewhere and if you aren't smart enough to capitalize on our sense someone else will be. And somewhere, someday soon there is going to be an auction site that will take eBay out because we are a united group. You can have it or you can throw it away. We can't really stop you but we will stay a united group and we will continue to sell IN A FAIR AND HONEST METHOD.
