Comments for Boycott eBay

Comment on Books Category Getting the Buy.com Squeeze by LegendsOfBatman

LegendsOfBatman — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:28:06 +0000

Thanks “Donuts”.

Thanks to your informing me of this, I was able to dig a bit deeper and discovered some more oddities.
Here is what I discovered:
These numbers were taken from Terapeak and are based on a 90 day history (March 2, 2008-
May 31, 2008. The most current info at the time of publishing):
Seller: Buy
Total Items Listed: 2,708,987
Total sales: $3,924,907
Successful listings: 64,638
Total Items Offered: 249,431,285
Sell through rate: 2.39%
Average Sale: $44.43
MINIMUM listing fee, including dutch auctions: $24,943,128.5 (Based on the lowest fee of .10 per listing, and offering Media Mail. Does not include higher listing fees, or other promotional listing fees, or Final Value Fees, which would increase the fees dramnatically).

Comment on May 1st Boycott by Firm Grip

Firm Grip — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:15:45 +0000

Hello! Just found your site and was looking at your chart of the eBay listings, which I found interesting.

I am looking for pertinent information to add to a relatively new site called Fair Shake Buyers & Sellers Network, which was created to bring all individuals and groups together who are involved in the eBay resistance effort.

We have plans to go beyond the boycott, however, and are organizing and recruiting volunteers to help people re-establish their businesses elsewhere, in the event the Boycott does not have the desired effect.

If you, or anyone you know, might be interested in joining our group for giving or receiving guidance, please visit us! We are not trying to be a replacement for any of the numerous efforts–only to be a networking point for sharing the very best from all.

Thank you!

“Firm Grip”

(not sure if this accepts html code, so please excuse the gobbledygoop if it doesn’t!!) http://www.fairshake.freeforums.org

Comment on eBay Australia Pushback by Billy

Billy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:02:53 +0000

It’s time for the Australians, U.S.A., U.K. and Germans to ban together and Boycott Ebay beginning May 1st, 2008 and beyond!

Comment on Consequences of Upcoming Feedback Policy Changes by Mary

Mary — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:48:04 +0000

One thing that is not being addressed is that one of Ebay’s solutions to the problems of bad sellers has been for other sellers to police their site. Well this has not worked and yet Ebay has had this policy for a very long time. If a seller for instance is charging high shipping and another seller reports this to ebay, the auction may or may not be pulled and the offender will get a canned email stating the auction was pulled for whatever reason. But this has never been a given. Now ebay is calling every seller bad by their decisions and never ending solutions that make no sense at all. So in short if Ebay makes their decisions one can count on them being short sighted and just plain wrong because the sellers did not take care of Ebay’s problems for them. Ebay will have a very rough road this year.

Comment on Ebay Member User ID For Sale 99.7% 3000+ Feedback!!! by C. Yee

C. Yee — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:18:27 +0000

Very well said. I feel the same way.

Cute dog, too.