Interesting

[redlinear]

Ai, are people unhappy with eBay?
  It appears there are significant concerns and unhappiness among eBay users, particularly sellers.

Ai, are people happy with eBay?
  It's difficult to give a definitive "yes" or "no" answer to whether people are happy with eBay. Happiness levels with eBay vary depending on whether you're a buyer or seller, your individual experience, and your expectations.

Ai, Is this due to eBay forcing free returns in Motors?
   Of course it is.  Also, my cousin is eBay's ai, and he's a few circuits shy of an incandscent light bulb

[fbusoni]

More evidence, I suppose, that AI is effectively useless -- sort of like eBay execs -- when it comes to assessing human behavior, feelings and perceptions.

[tobaccocardyahoo]

I have sold on multiple Internet marketplaces over a period of more than 25 years.

The number of sellers on those marketplaces who have participated in their forums and loath the marketplace which helps them make money, has always been a significant number and extremely loud.

The happiest days were probably when Pierre ran Ebay and it came as close as one could to a marche ouvert. So close that federal and state laws were violated on Ebay every day.

[chapeau-noir]

"All happy eBayers are alike; each unhappy eBayer is unhappy in its own way."

[powell-collectibles]

AI, will sellers that have an increased profit because of this change in policy still be unhappy?

Answer: for those that love to complain - of course. 

[jonathanbrightlight]

I asked Al, and he said he was happy selling on eBay.

[chapeau-noir]

I asked A1 and it said 'I taste good on steak.'

 

[mam98031]

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@jonathanbrightlight wrote:

I asked Al, and he said he was happy selling on eBay.

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AL us a wonderful guy.  LOL

Or maybe it is what Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education said.  "A school system that's going to start making sure that first graders, or even pre-Ks, have A1 [A one]teaching in every year. That's a wonderful thing!"

[gottasellemall69]

AI=Actually Indians

[tex-421]

several years ago I went to an IT conference at Stanford.  At lunch the general counsel for one of the more prominent companies developing and pushing AI gave a presentation on AI.  The first words out of his mouth were, folks there is not such thing as AI, AI is just a marketing phrase for a new search model based on more complex algorithms supported by massive computing power. 

[bashort]

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@redlinear wrote:

Ai, are people unhappy with eBay?
  It appears there are significant concerns and unhappiness among eBay users, particularly sellers.

Ai, are people happy with eBay?
  It's difficult to give a definitive "yes" or "no" answer to whether people are happy with eBay. Happiness levels with eBay vary depending on whether you're a buyer or seller, your individual experience, and your expectations.

Ai, Is this due to eBay forcing free returns in Motors?
   Of course it is.  Also, my cousin is eBay's ai, and he's a few circuits shy of an incandscent light bulb

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I am happy with ebay for the most part, there is no other market as good for what I sell, remember people only discuss things that went wrong not the vast majority that go right

[ryry-jj]

"...more complex algorithms supported by massive computing power."

          And that computer power is mind boggling!!

Stanford has had some fun symposiums...

"how the secondary market will power a primary market"...I think eBay founders were at that one!

My favorite one on collecting...."how many items of a collection do we need to be made available for you to purchase in order to keep you looking/shopping to buy the remainder?"  This focused on Pokemon cards as an example, lol

[tex-421]

At that conference, there was a heat wave in the Bay Area, the temp in Palo Alto was 105.  The GC presentation was outside on a patio.  It was beyond miserable 

[grandmasjewelry123]

Ebay has gone the way of most of the world... complicate it for your safety and to make it easier and so many rules and details get put in place that it no longer works, or it is just so cumbersome to make it work.

KISS- keep it simple stupid is a nice acronym.

The other problem is the nonprofits that get donations look like stores in the malls in the 80's, where there were lines to buy, and while many entrepreneurs shop there, you can't compete in business with a group that gets everything for free and pays no tax.

KISS- keep it simple stupid went out the window.

[meme6253]

Very Interesting!