posted on January 13, 2001 01:38:10 AM
In response to Amazon's announcement yesterday that:
1) All Marketplace and Amazon Auction sellers MUST accept Amazon One Click payments (with processing fees going to Amazon, of course) and you must have a U.S. address and bank account (excluding Canadian and foreign sellers) AND
2) Commission (same as eBay's) will be charged again beginning Jan. 17th on ALL sales (Auctions using One Click payments have been exempt from FVFs, since the sellers have had processing fees deducted when buyers paid that way.)
this was posted on an Amazon thread:
"Hey! Try going to Yahoo! and reading those threads! Amazon is not committing suicide - it's a good 'ole shoot-out between Amazon and Yahoo! and both are obviously going to get shot down completely! and the the "big boy" will be left standing! And it STINKS!"
Reminds me of a Western movie I saw a long time ago ("The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" perhaps?) where several men are in a circle for a shootout and each has to decide who to aim at first.
The difference here is that the three outlaws, "YaWho Fool", "Ebola Amazon" and "eBad The Greedy" are in a circle, guns in hand, eyeing each other......and when the time comes to shoot,
"YaWho Fool" and "Ebola Amazon" BOTH TURN THE GUNS ON THEMSELVES.
And "eBad The Greedy" saunters off into the sunset, laughing his @#*$ off.
[ edited by granee on Jan 13, 2001 02:07 AM ]
posted on January 13, 2001 06:21:18 AM
Isn't that the truth - suicidalitus seems to have taken over the auction industry.
You bet your bootie eBay is laughing all the way to the bank! But, lets face it, this time it can't be blamed on eBay - Yahoo and Amazon are doing this to themselves.
posted on January 13, 2001 12:48:50 PM
Emperor eBay is just watching this gladitorial match, and when the fight is done, they'll just give what's left a casual thumbs down.
posted on January 13, 2001 01:56:30 PM
Boy have you guys called it right! I am so disgusted with amazon and all their new "help us " attitude while screwing us sellers! I just signed up for their pro merchant account and they come out and say bye bye to anyone who doesn't have access to a us address! What greed! and how dumb can they be? I am going to list and then relist on amazon for 1 month or they tell me to go and then only list on ebay~I don't like to limit myself to one auction and at one time I actually thought amazon was the greatest! I sold romances for $ 40.00 ( softcover) but the reality check has finally sunk in ~ after I put up with featured selling ~ paying to feature an auction otherwise it is on the back burner. The best that can be said for yahoo is they at least unscrambled their listings. Amazon has just lost my business ( small though it was) but I do think people who sell ( small people) often do buy as well. (Not suz23 on amazon or anywhere else)
posted on January 15, 2001 04:58:41 AM
I'd think the first man out will be Amazon - basically because they have been in decline longer, and because Amazon.Com doesn't seem interested in the auction business anymore. For example the tiny Auction logo on the Book Home Page, which use to be Large!
ON THE OTHER HAND, it might be Yahoo, "if" the rumors about a buy out are correct. Yahoo has so many other ventures than the auction, they may be positioning themselves to sell off the auction portion of Yahoo, to bring up their bottom line, monetarily speaking.
Of course in Yahoo's case, destroying your customer base isn't the best way to have any leverage when selling a site.
