John Go to either the PowerSeller Board or Seller Central. It is all over both boards.
Bruce On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:41 PM, JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *2) eBay has just announced that starting in July NO LINKS WHATSOEVERwill be > allowed on eBay auctions OR About Me pages! This means 99% of > current auctions are in violation. No more helpful links to "information > pages" or databases, etc.* > Hi Bruce > Where did you see this announcement? Do you have a link to the > announcement? If this is true you are correct in saying that most sellers > will have to end their store listings and start again. > > I have also read the reports about the buy.com auctions. One of the eBay > execs was quoted as saying that eBay willl be unrecognizable from the > current format in 12 months time. Looks like that might be truer than anyone > thought. I wonder what is next. > Regards > John > > > Sign up for my regular newsletter on movie memorabilia: > http://www.moviemem.com/pages/page.php?mod=account&go=register > > Visit my Website: www.moviemem.com > > All About Australian posters: > http://search.reviews.ebay.com/members/johnwr_W0QQuqtZg > > My eBay Store and Lisitngs: http://myworld.ebay.com/johnwr/ > > Exhibitions: http://www.moviemem.com/pages/page.php?page=15 > > JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA > PO Box 92 > Palm Beach > Qld 4221 > Australia > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Bruce Hershenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:52 AM > *Subject:* Re: [MOPO] ebay's new feedback > > My feedback is now 74,000+ and I am now at 100%, for the first time in 9 > 1/2 years. > > *And yet this stinks to high hell!* > > I saw all this coming when they made their first announcements at the > eCommerce forum, and that night I posted my "I have sold 300,000+ items but > am quitting eBay completely" thread on the PowerSellers Board (since deleted > by eBay, who couldn't handle the truth, but available on the > auctionbytes.com site). > > *THIS IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG!* > > 1) eBay made some wacko deal with Buy.com, that has seen them list 74 * > MILLION* items on eBay (in around 500,000 auctions) in the last 30 days > (for no listing fee). This means every "repeatable" item is over-run with > buy.com listings, and they don't pay to list, and the other sellers do! > > 2) eBay has just announced that starting in July *NO LINKS WHATSOEVER*will be > allowed on eBay auctions OR About Me pages! This means 99% of > current auctions are in violation. No more helpful links to "information > pages" or databases, etc. > > 3) eBay just took the limit off how many of an item anyone can list. So > buy.com can have the same item closing every five seconds 24 hours a day, > thus defeating the "items ending soonest" search, and they don't even pay > for the listings! > > 4) Sellers are now 100% at the mercy of the buyers! Once it sinks in that > the sellers can't leave negs or neutrals, and how much sellers have riding > on good feedback and DSR's, every buyer can blackmail every seller. AND *THIS > WILL BE ESPECIALLY BAD IN VINTAGE ITEMS, WHERE THE CONDITION OF EVERY ITEM > CAN BE DISPUTED!* > > I could go on and on, but I think you can all see why I am getting out of > Dodge just in time, and why I said that their massive price raise was just a > minor reason in why I was leaving! > > Bruce > > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Michael B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> my feedback percentage actually went down today with the new calculation. >> in the past 12 months, i received one Neutral, which counts as a negative >> and eats into the percentage. ***i offered this seller mutual withdrawal, >> since i responded. >> >> prior to this, i had 3 negs. 2 of them were shill transactions in behalf >> of someone else. since getting these 2/3 years ago, both these bidders >> still have a ZERO score. (the third neg i had was from a seller of a >> non-poster item who retaliated) >> >> BUT BUT BUT, even with the 3 negs, and additional positive feedback >> credits of about 60 added today (because they were from the same buyers, >> another change), my Percentage went down. >> >> i dont think this was the intent of ebay. ...............wow ebay!!!! >> >> >> michael >> ebay account: dialmbbmbb >> ------------------------------ >> Plan your next roadtrip with >> MapQuest.com<http://www.mapquest.com/?ncid=mpqmap00030000000004>: >> America's #1 Mapping Site. >> Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com >> ___________________________________________________________________ How >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF >> MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. >> >> > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ How to > UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF > MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
