@coolections Certainly, ebay does have a THINK TANK. But I am an actual user. I have no college degree, I come up with ideas. (it's in my horroscope! lol, IDEA PERSON, check CANCERS SIGN!
The thing with the EBAY THINK TANK, they may be higher educated, but I am in the real world, an ebay user. Most folks I've talked to at ebay, buy on ebay, but I don't think I've spoken to one that sells on ebay, other than an item here and there.
Ebay is not likely to create this idea, because if they dont' sell locally, using paypal, then how would they come up with this? I have 2 small stores, I think 5 ebay URLS, probably well over 10,000 transactions... I've seen it, been there, done that. I would always tell ebay to hire me, but they never offered to. I would joke with them on the phone about this all the time. People that work on ebay come and go and probably have large salaries. But I always suggested they hire me as a consultant. There was a period of several years when I refused to talk to them because I was never paid for my ideas, but I have a lot of nice old antique furniture that I just don't want to ship and I can't take paypal because I can't prove delivery, and simply won't take the chance to ship and should the item arrive damaged for any reason, provide a return label? It's a bit risky my friend. I would be poor and probably insane and definitely suffer from insomnia if I did this. I'd never sleep until the item arrived at the buyer's location and they posted a positive. I was really pushing for this lately and it's funny as soon as I try to get an app for it.... they roll it out.
Superman creators Siegal and Shuster were not compensated FOR YEARS, until there was public outrage. I'm sure they get ZILLIONS of ideas submitted to them, but I pretty much spelled this one out clearly, to paypal as well. Paypal heard this idea from me as well on numerous occasions and I waited for a call that never came.
Which is why my wife is now very angry with me. When my friends need ideas, they know who to call and she doesn't like it because when I call them for a favor, I never get a response until days later. (She says, "they all have phone's in their pockets, they can't even respond via email?, but they call you at midnight and keep you up all night!" She's right, I guess. But I am an easy going person with ideas. I have many. I have inventions, several intellectuals, I created transparent backing boards for comic books. (I didn't get a patent, but I published the idea in the 1998 OVERSTREET PRICE GUIDE, with full details to protect the idea. At the time they said my product was too expensive, $3. But I did sell a lot and my house was full of plastics. But that's another story.) I have been contacted recently from past customers who tell me this might be the right time for a re-release. I was told by a charter member of a comic grading company that it was my idea that inspired slabbing. "Before we saw your CLEARS BACKING BOARDS, we didn't know how to do it." (Slabbing came out JUST AFTER "CLEARS".)
