No matter what platform people use, they will be subject to the $600 threshold for a 1099K. If they have not been filing taxes as they should have been all along then yeah, they may depart. I have no problem with the 1099K, although I think people should be able to sell a certain amount each year maybe like $5K without any reporting requirements (or maybe up to $5K for a limited number of years. Not that I am anti-tax but because that is incentive to have some in need of money or overwhelmed with things (like downsizing or inherited items) have an outlet. It also lets some items basically get recycled and that saves other resources. Plus, by allowing people to engage in selling some people who get a taste of selling will go on to build businesses. that may add jobs.
eBay and PP where the two leading companies that allowed people to take full advantage of the internet as buyers and sellers. The ease of becoming a seller that eBay brought forward was without a doubt revolutionary. You could be in the remotest part of Alaska and reach buyers around the world. That was never possible before. It met Pierre's vision to rationalize markets.
It is harder to get started now, and eBay favors the large seller and that's a shame. Big brands dominate many markets on eBay and there was a time where a small seller could compete successfully against any other seller. In fact, big brands shied away from eBay in the early days. It was the small sellers that paved the way and demonstrated that ecommerce was not only possible but lucrative (remember in 1995 the common wisdom was no one could make money on the internet).
I am nit arguing for nostalgia for the old days. I'd like to see eBay actually fulfill its promise beyond a return for stockholders.
