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EBay Deal Irritates Individual Sellers

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.

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. '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."

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  1. Re:No competition by Idbar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Given that I don't like EBay, I must say that that's mainly the main reason I don't use Google Products (or whatever name it has now). It's amazing the amount of results aiming to unreal prices of 0.01 dollars you get when you try to look for something there.

    If I could talk to Google, I'd like to know that I can block undesired sites in my product search, permanently!.

  2. Re:everything is about money by Warhawke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd say hunting for Manbearpig, but sources tell me his MASSIVE home energy consumption is fueling its containment cage.