TAKING ON EBAY - Boycott Information for the INTERNET AUCTION ALLIANCE

They complain that people are now comparing ebay to Nordstrums?  I don't think so, I've only heard them compared to wal-mart and the dollar store. 

This story (below) has the "noise" quote, although he doesn't call the sellers "noise" directly,  he says something like 'some people won't like the changes but we can't listen to the average noise.'

It looks like a lot changed when they hired the IT guy from wal-mart.  He thinks because AFTER he got the job he sold his dining table on ebay that he knows what ebay is about.  What a joke.  If they hadn't paid and then threatened to neg him if he filed a non paying bidder then he might know what ebay can be like.

The fact that they began to "focus on the buyer" is telling.  It is unclear who is ebay's "buyer."  The truth is that the sellers are the buyers of ebay services and that the merchandise buyers are OUR customers.  They are skipping over us and our needs and value to the site to go to the end user.  This is where their mistake was made.  Wal-mart sells directly to the buyer and they are acting like they do too,  but they don't and those buyers aren't their customers, they are ours and we can take them with us.

Somebody mis-read the situation, but then what can you expect from people who have never done the seller's job and don't understand it?

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• #1 Comment from cruzzer101 
  3/26/08 9:22 PM | Permalink

  i swear to god i think ebay is out to screw the sellers over more and more.  u gotta leave nothing but positive feedback for buyers; can't leave no negative feedback.  you gotta suck up the 75% jump in final value fees and ebay wont let you pass that on to the buyer, not even a part of it to make things fair.  and here lately ebay has been telling folks they need to ship for free and can't charge anything for the time and labor for shipping plus do all the work.  and now this crap.  its past being able to beleive how fuk'ed up ebay has gotten!  its friggin insane and the stupid american public just sits on their collective asses doing nothing with their thumbs up their butts stuffing their fat lazy faces and letting these companies and countries just roll over them.  its no wonder america is failing and is so full of shit.  its not only ebay that deserves to have its ass kicked -- its america that needs its stupid, fat, lazy, do-nothing ass kicked too.  and i'd be wiling to bet my ass that americans will get this ass kicked real soon by the chinese and if not their military, then their economy cuz they ain't stupid and saw how we whooped the world using our economy and now china has taken the lesson to heart and is going to do it to us but hey, we're a bunch of stupid americans -- reallyl -- and we're going to let them do it.
  stupid people.  stupid ebay.  stupid every friggin thing.