Really there is are so many factors in sales be they now or many years back that are influencers. I think it is safe to say that all things change. Agile venues can better adjust to change versus venues "Walled in" with formula's that once worked splendid yet decay overtime due to lack of the agility and inability to take risks due to varieties of constraints even when seeking break those walls. The more complex and larger the business serving consumers and other businesses the more difficult it is to breakthrough based on dependencies. A mom and pop Co-Op with 100 vendors can exercise more agility than a place such as eBay yet both are dependent on both vendor and host interests.
Not too many years ago Business to Consumer venues thrived within many third party points of supply yet lack of agility made them fall away in the wake of more agile entities. Over the years market shakeout left few of those who actually were able to out compete those B2C venues and now barely a handful truly viable remain. They are the big boys on the block and now must truly deal with one another and the world has changed. Twenty five years ago social media was somewhat a new novel concept for example and now its literally thrown a world into many many problems up to including turmoil, something weaponized for example.
As sellers many folks have been reliant on the Internet make ends meet or better yet more and more feel the same types of lack of power as the common citizen towards say events, self-governance. They need rely on venues to provide opportunity yet the venues that provide for it are themselves in ways becoming victim of their own creation being undermined by opportunists taking advantage of said opportunities in harmful ways.
As I'd said in another thread I envision it as eBay a boxer in a ring literally being struck from every direction. Or perhaps a better paradigm might be a nation, its government, struck from every direction including the very citizens it serves provide for by bad actors.
I said in another thread after speaking with my ex this morning, she's politician of some order and note. I was shocked to hear that this year Mastercard claiming 100 Billion in chargeback estimated and 60% of that they estimate as fraudulent perhaps climbing as high as 350 Billion by 2027. Vendors here are not alone as big retail is suffering the same blows.
I've said many a time that I don't fault eBay for very much as many matter are simply external of their ability to control or impact upon. They'd like nothing better than every single transaction to be flawless just like every single community government would like peace, prosperity and more for its citizens.
