I think I need to step in and defend the folks in EBAY management. Bad policy decisions, do not make them morons. It simply means they may need to be educated about the real world. That is our responsibility and it may take some time They are probably very smart and nice people and calling them morons is going to far.
Our job as sellers is not to name call, but rather try to educate as to why this was horrible for buyers, sellers, and EBAY. And Tyler and others are doing thier best to pass information along and they did already make one small but almost useless concession, but it is a first step.
From the high and mighty ivory white tower on the west side of the Republic of California where up is down and down is up and every day is Alice in Wonderland and a trip through the looking glass this may have seemed like a good way to solve a problem they saw.
But we sellers live on the reality side of that looking glass and many of us are from outside the Republic of California, and we are doing all we can to educate and provide BETTER solutions that do not seem so crazy!
There have been some excellent discussions by sellers on this thread and tons of others on other blogs in the past week. Many great ideas for EBAY management to mull over.
Such as:
1.) Not applying these rules to 20% or less promotions
2.) Only applies to the "Brand new " item condition category
3.) penalizing sellers who inflate and then do massive sales in order to trick or decive buyers.
4.) Maybe not allowing sales of 30% or higher at all. Force sellers to simply lower the price to wherever everybody else is selling or near it and do smaller % sales.
So as hard as it is, (and I personally have statistically lost over $2500 in sales in the past week), we need to give Tyler and the other fine folks reading our posts time to implement revisions. And because this involves sofware changes, it cannot happen overnight. It might take IT at EBAY days to implement a change that does not bust other stuff, even if those folks that are appearing to tell us to eat cake, are already responding to our pleas and suggestions.
However if they hold thier position and do not respond in a week or so, then I suspect the pitchforks may come out and name calling might be appropriate.
Morons are incapable of learning or being educated, I trust EBAY's management will see there is a better way. Only time will tell.
In the meantime, lets work to be part of a better solution and keep good ideas flowing regarding how to solve EBAY managements concerns, rather than name call and be combative no matter how high the level of frustration and anger may get.
Remember "if you are not part of the solution, your are part of the problem"
Jim
