EBay Deal Signals the End for Individual Auctions-> 1
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Dekortage
Dekortage writes "EBay's recent deal with Buy.com appears to be seriously irritating its veteran individual sellers. The deal allows Buy.com and other large fixed-price retailers to list millions of items on eBay without paying listing fees, and appears to be the direction that eBay will follow in the future. Understandably, individual sellers are outraged, like this blogger: "I've paid eBay many hundreds of thousands in fees over the past several years and believed them when they talked about a level playing field. And they just plain and simple are going back on their word." This comes after the dire prediction that eBay is losing its popularity. Will eBay recover from this?"
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Nothing new..... (Score:2)
eBay has been pissing off small to medium individual sellers (myself included) for years now. The original concept of the site was perfect, filled a niche, and worked very well. But the honchos there got greedy and power-hungry, and wanted to become the next Amazon or buy.com. There is no reason for millions of fixed price items to be part of what is supposed to be an auction site. They have probably garnered mucho moolah through their courting of huge "power sellers" and corporate retail businesses, but th