Informal Survey..

[namtrag1]

Rank in importance what you think is eBays priority.

1. Big Box retailers

2. Auctions

3. Fixed price items

4.Small  Mom &Pop retailers

[the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth]

5. Buyer's pocketbooks.

[lewisburggold]

Looks like you already know what number one to them is.  Best regards

[southern*sweet*tea]

1. Ebay's pocketbook

2. 99 cent garbage from China

3. Ebay's pocketbook

4. More 99 cent garbage from China

5. Ebay's pocketbook

6.  Sellers with locations in Asia

7. Ebay's pocketbook

8. Sellers with locations in Asia who say they're in the US

9. Ebay's pocketbook

10. Buyers

[wifetrained]

Ebay's number one priority is Ebay. All other considerations are secondary.

[ten_o_nine]

1. Shareholders

2. Management Salaries & bonuses

3. Brainstorm sessions to create additional seller fees to make shareholders and management very happy. 

[z240dude]

Hmmm I'd say destroying and eliminating all small US sellers

[grayirongolf]

eBay's #1 priority?   Fooling the institutional investor too invest large sums of money into shares, so upper management can pull the rug out from under their feet.   

[grayirongolf]

I would say you would be correct with shareholders but eBay does'nt give a F about them either.  

eBay doesnt discriminate who they take a dump on.  As long as they are dumping on something or someone their life is fulfilled. 

[yuzuha]

People who list things that sell.

[luckythewinner]

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@namtrag1 wrote:

Rank in importance what you think is eBays priority.

1. Big Box retailers

2. Auctions

3. Fixed price items

4.Small  Mom &Pop retailers

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I don't think eBay prioritizes any of these over the others.

I think eBay's priority is to maximize profit, and profit comes from all four of those areas. 

[femmefan1946]

1. Fixed price items

• Because they are 85% of transactions and eBay makes money on transactions

2. Big Box retailers

• Because they have Stores and pay for thousands if not millions of listings and eBay makes money on those listings. See also #1.

3. Small  Mom &Pop retailers

• Because while they don't list as many items as bigger sellers, they pay higher fees on the listings they do upload and on the sales they do make.

4.Auctions

• Legacy code only kept as a branding exercise for those who still think of eBay as an auction site. (See #1). EBay does make money on these, if only in shipping FVF when they sell to the only bidder.

[rschissler]

What are the Big Box retailers that are "supposedly" dominating eBay and taking away all the sales from the small mom and pops?

[femmefan1946]

Goodwill Industries are often mentioned, particularly in books. I notice the ones in Stores are all local branches

It's possible some other charities also sell here like Sally and and St Vincent dePaul.

At one time, several big mall stores, like WalMart and Target, had accounts here, testing the waters. I think they have moved on to their own sites and no longer sell on eBay.

Nowadays I think sellers mean the Chinese sellers with thousands of listings, however, there is no reason in my mind to think they are particularly large companies, just very very well organized.