eBay

usedgoodsforsale2021 · ‎02-12-2018

https://medium.com/@justinemoore_85088/disrupting-ebay-the-rise-of-vertical-marketplaces-3a7385ff07a...

I found it in my Facebook feed, but you don't have to go to facebook to read it.

I found it uplifting.

I recently changed my ebay user id from highway58_sales to this one:)

ebay quickly welcomed me as a new member in an email 🙂

hioctane62 · ‎02-12-2018

This stood out to me:

Community. With nearly 170M active users buying and selling products in hundreds of categories, eBay lacks a sense of close community. We believe that having a community of like-minded users is key to creating trust in transactions, incentivizing repeat purchases, and encouraging users to participate on both sides of the marketplace.

Ebay all but killed a very close and diverse community starting in 2008 when sellers were declared to be "noise", with censorship, suspensions, bans, and business stifling policies.

castlemagicmemories · ‎02-12-2018

I remember when the Community Discussion Board link was at the top left of any ebay search page.

usedgoodsforsale2021 · ‎02-12-2018

wrote:
This stood out to me:

Community. With nearly 170M active users buying and selling products in hundreds of categories, eBay lacks a sense of close community. We believe that having a community of like-minded users is key to creating trust in transactions, incentivizing repeat purchases, and encouraging users to participate on both sides of the marketplace.

Ebay all but killed a very close and diverse community starting in 2008 when sellers were declared to be "noise", with censorship, suspensions, bans, and business stifling policies.

I remember that **bleep**

Turns out ebay itself is noisy...

Quality control. eBay does not approve listings before they go live, and the buyer has no way to make sure the product is even real. eBay is therefore very noisy — there are a lot of fake or junk listings that buyers have to avoid. Part of the appeal of local platforms ... is that buyers are able to inspect the product. Digital-only marketplaces have also been able to better curate listings. Sellers on *blank* , for example, send in their clothes to be evaluated before they are re-sold to the end buyer, while buyers on *blank* can rest assured that their car has undergone a 200-point inspection and has a 30-day warranty.

castlemagicmemories · ‎02-12-2018

wrote:
wrote:
This stood out to me:

Community. With nearly 170M active users buying and selling products in hundreds of categories, eBay lacks a sense of close community. We believe that having a community of like-minded users is key to creating trust in transactions, incentivizing repeat purchases, and encouraging users to participate on both sides of the marketplace.

Ebay all but killed a very close and diverse community starting in 2008 when sellers were declared to be "noise", with censorship, suspensions, bans, and business stifling policies.
I remember that **bleep**
Turns out ebay itself is noisy...
Quality control. eBay does not approve listings before they go live, and the buyer has no way to make sure the product is even real. eBay is therefore very noisy — there are a lot of fake or junk listings that buyers have to avoid. Part of the appeal of local platforms ... is that buyers are able to inspect the product. Digital-only marketplaces have also been able to better curate listings. Sellers on *blank* , for example, send in their clothes to be evaluated before they are re-sold to the end buyer, while buyers on *blank* can rest assured that their car has undergone a 200-point inspection and has a 30-day warranty.