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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 yorkrj · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think the time is right for some enterprising developers to come up with the next killer e-commerce app to eclipse eBay.

  2. Re:No competition by DaveV1.0 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Your forgot the hookers.

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  3. Re:First post by xonar · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ok

  4. Re:No competition by LWATCDR · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ebay owns a chuck of craigslist.

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