How Amazon and Google are taking eBay's Business

prostoalex writes "Wall Street Journal says many online sellers who started on eBay are now going solo, being helped out by 'name-your-own-price' Amazon Marketplace and Google's and Yahoo's advertising programs, which allow small businesses to direct their ads to search engine users interested in specific items. The article discusses several companies where online sellers, being disappointed with eBay's falling profit margins, increasing fees, disruptions coming from PayPal account freezes and high fraud rate, are leaving eBay. Many start with setting up their own sites, continuing to do business on eBay, but then switching to solo e-commerce entirely after looking at profit margins."

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Re:phishing

[pandrijeczko]

Sorry, but I've no sympathy for victims of phishing. If you're stupid enough to fall for a phishing attack then you either need to get yourself some computer training or put your PC on Ebay and stick to pens and paper.

If you simply remember the rule that no legitimate organisation will ask you for any secure information via email, then no phishing attack can ever work against you.

There's been enough warnings about this already and if people took the time to read those, and the "Policy" areas of online sites they deal with, they would not be victims.