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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. It's not political, but it is a useless rant by D.McGuiggin · · Score: 0, Troll

    As I've already said, you did nothing but fire off unsupported, unsourced opinions with not one single shred of evidence making your case.

    "businessmen, like politicians, very frequently do really dumb things,"

    Well, in case YOU failed to notice, that was not your point. Your point was that you THINK what eBay has done is influencing their bottom line negatively, but again, provided not one single shred of evidence to demonstrate that you are doing anything more than talking out of your ass.

    Some people here eat that up, but some of us see right your commentary as the empty useless ranting that it is.

  2. Re:No competition by MagdJTK · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah! What kind of crazy world do we live in where sex is legal and killing people isn't?!