Thats funny!
eBay was found guilty of stealing early online auction patents - they did not invent them.
All early innovations of eBay were all invented by other people, such as pictures in listings, eBay's own API, scheduled listings, listing software, electronic forms of payment and so on. eBay either stole these ideas from others or bought the company that invented the concept.
A history of never innovating. Old time eBayers knew Meg Whitman's move to HP would be a disaster as there she would not be able to steal the ideas of other people and companies.
A major portion of eBay's income is from scams these days to offset declining numbers in buyers and sellers.
Final Value Fees on shipping.
Promoting Free Shipping which results in higher priced item versus calculated shipping thus earning them more money. Higher priced goods sell less unless you think customers are too stupid to sort items by total cost.
Misusing a 1969 Universal Postal Union program designed to help poor people to instead line the pockets of eBay and its Chinese Communist Partners. This resulted in USPS losing billions of dollars. It forced the American public to subsidize eBay and its Chinese Communist partners. It destroyed manufacturing jobs of American due to items being dumped into the U.S. via out own post office. Its destroyed the jobs of U.S. based eBay sellers who could not compete due to the ultra low shipping prices form China.
Selling private shipping insurance. This means USPS will make less money on their insurance and thus be forced to raise prices, thus earning eBay more money.
Hiding listings and hiding shipping options on listings.
Promoted listings.
Getting rid of 30 day listing and replacing them with Good Til Cancelled. This forces sellers to cancel their listings each month before they automatically renew as opposed to being automatically cancelled each month. This is designed to earn more money for eBay as many listings are not caught in time due to the amount of work involved. eBay said this was done to force sellers to be more responsible for maintaining their wares, which of course was a lie since the 30 day listings automatically took care of that as unsold items would no longer be listed unless the seller decided to manually relist them.
Getting rid of promotional events in which sellers would be invited to list anywhere from 250 to 250,000 listings or more with no insertion fees. No reason to even have a store or pay insert fees at all if you used listing software to create your listings ahead of time. Ebay created these events due to declining insertion fees and tried to thus generate revenue on the back end using FVF. When this program failed they replaced it with FVF on shipping, a few free listings per month and store subscriptions.
eBay has now dropped to #3 behind Amazon and Shopify.
eBay has lost millions of customers due to their evil ways. Millions of other accounts are duplicate accounts used by the same person to sell, buy and post in the forum. Millions of other accounts are dormant.
