They are incapable of such thought. They employ a bunch of executives who
have to reach sales targets and justify their day to day existence. Most
large corporations work this way now.
They also have, I am sure, the same culture of fear for employees that has
become standard practice, i.e. don't perform, then there are plenty of
people who are waiting in line to take your job.
The logic of free-listing has been staring them in the face for years now,
and the back end rape, as DD calls it, is only matched by the reach around
front end.
Phil
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From: "Dale Dilts" <ddilts...@mchsi.com>
To: <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Article on EBAY's Recent Problems
They already rape you on the back end with final sale percentages then
double dip you on the paypal fees, I don't know why they don't just let
everyone list for free and just take their back-end cuts. That would
increase the amounts of listings immensely and might actual get traffic
numbers going the right direction.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Halegua Comic Art" <sa...@comic-art.com>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 5:43:33 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Article on EBAY's Recent Problems
At 03:19 PM 5/20/2010, JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia wrote:
The changes are working OK for me but I dont know if they will ultimately
be a good thing for eBay. Sellers who take the time to work out how the
system works can manipulate their listings so that they appear high in the
searches. However, most dont have the time to work the system and their
listings become lost. Many sellers have given up on auctions and now just
concentrate on fixed price listings.
The big problem for eBay is that they keep changing their groundrules. The
end result is that they have lost many great sellers like Bruce and Rich
and others who have set up successful websites.
John is correct. Bruce and I have set up successful websites : - )
but he's right otherwise also. people are gaming the system and as a
buyer - the site is a pain in the a$$
I wish I could:
1) filter out the sellers who never list anything I want and yet weekly
relist their items making me take more time to look at the auction
listing. just to click a button that says "hide this seller" would be
great
2) get rid of the people selling repros in the originals category
3) send each non-poster seller a tutorial on how to pack posters, so that
the super-rare wc I found for Dylan's Don't Look Back which was an ebay
treasure won for $1.99 and was nice & flat, does not get shipped in a
bubble envelope that the post office used as a conveyer belt bumper panel
before forwarding on to me. Yeah she refunded the $1.99 to me.. but the
poster went from $250-350 down to $25
I'm sure I have other suggestions.. those are the main gripes
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