@tdebuys wrote:
Bah! The complaint isn't about competition...it's about fairness! WE PAY for a space to SHOW OUR Merchandise..ONCE someone enters our store they should see what WE ARE SELLING not what all of our competitors are selling. YOU MISS THE POINT. When someone does a search in eBay general they should see all there is to see, but when they go into the "so called" STORE we rented it should ONLY show what WE ARE SELLING..... That is the beef... so don't make this about we're afraid of competition, we're NOT. We just NO LONGER HAVE A STORE that is OURS. It is now their store and we're paying for it. DON't Give me that my things are showing up in someone else's store as solace, I want "MY SPACE" to be MY SPACE. MY things should show up when a customer does a search in greater eBay, but NOT in someone else's store. I don't call this GTC but rather SMIS "Selling In MY STORE" and it's bad bad bad. I'm not even going to go to the "GIANT BLUE RETURN BUTTON" That is the singularly most stupid anti-Seller campaign I've ever seen. And while I'm on a roll, to the person that said "there's so many more sellers on eBay these days" **bleep** There just a lot of CHINA on EBAY these days.
Some people will always think Ebay is a giant based on history. Truth be told this place is becoming a second rate website real quick. I know Ebay is Number 2 behind Amazon, but the gap between the 2 continues to widen. It used to be Ebay, Amazon and everyone else. Now its Amazon and everyone else.
Ebay is a heck of alot closer to Bonanza these days than they are to Amazon. Ebay basically built Amazon by infuriating its customer base, who then ran to Amazon. Ebay continues to be Amazons best "customer".
Ebay may have sellers but the TYPE and QUALITY of sellers are far different than when Ebay was actually successful. The unique inventory sellers that built Ebay are ever-dwindling almost to the point of non-existent. Sellers here consist of Big Box sellers, Chinese Junk Sellers, and Ebay "business owners", who quite frankly for the most part, are not appealing and should maybe give up the dream of being rich from working in their PJ's.
I don't say that in a derogatory manner but honestly if you are still hitching your business to the Ebay wagon, I have to question your business acumen. Very few capable business owners would touch Ebay. The fees charged vs the return given just doesn't make it a solid viable option. The River charges high fees as well, the difference is sales are furious and consistent there. By the time you take your widget, mark it up to profit and build in every ridiculous Ebay fee they rake you for, the velocity of sales is going to slow so much you will be lucky to profit anything, everything considered.
Ebay continues to trick some unwitting sellers into believing Ebay is still a powerhouse, or even a viable option. This isn't Ebay 2006!
Every attempt has been made for Ebay to increase profits on the LISTING end (see GTC). Ebay knows they are to inept to actually increase it from sales, because the buyers are all but gone. They've structured a system that makes you believe "you" are the problem and by buying all this stupid promoted listing snake oil, your sales will magically increase. When you buy into that junk, Ebay profits, Ebay shows profit, and because of that you will "wrongfully" see Ebay as still viable. After all they grew profit, right? You need to digest that they are only showing that profit because they have structured a system to bleed a dwindling user base, not because they've actually increased sales.
All smoke and mirrors! The sad part, many are to blinded to see through it. They depend on you to keep this mirage going people
