Ebay Boycott Starts Today - Join In

[TFig27]

Re: Ebay Boycott Starts Today - Join In

I am not selling or buying anything on eBay for three weeks, nothing.

Well, there is one less bidder.

Do you really feel that this boycott will be effective?

eBay can charge whatever they want. To really show them, instead of taking three weeks off, never buy and sell on there ever again.

Until there is an alternative to eBay, as a seller or a buyer, it is the best tool for worldwide exposure.

[sammy]

Re: Ebay Boycott Starts Today - Join In

Go ahead, cut your throat.

The only problem is their won't be fewer bidders, just fewer sellers.

I am sure there will be many people like you with short sighted vison.

[TFig27]

Re: Ebay Boycott Starts Today - Join In

Great, I'll find some steals with less bidders!

eBay does not force anyone to use it.

[sammy]

EBAY BOYCOTT STARTS TODAY - JOIN IN

A nation wide boycott of eBay starts today for one week.

This is in response to eBay's announced changes, with the main contention being feedback.

A seller will no longer be able to leave negative for a buyer, regardless of what the buyer has done or not done. A buyer may leave the seller a negative even if the seller did everything perfect, or a buyer may leave a negative for any reason they choose, and there isn't a damn thing the seller can do about it.

Of course, eBay states that if a non-paying bidder does not respond to a non-payment notice from eBay, the bidder can not leave a negative. What they don't tell you is the bidder can respond, still not pay, and then leave a negative. The seller is left with no money, a tainted auction, a lot of wasted time and energy, and a negative.

Personally, I find this to be the most asinine, stupid, and plain head up the a** move that eBay has ever instituted.

Their new rules lay all of the burden on the sellers, with the almost three percent increase in fees, and the totally unfair and throat cutting change to the feedback policy.

The only thing eBay understands is the bottom line, and I am doing everything in my small world to decrease that bottom line, now and in the future.

I started my boycott a week ago. I am not selling or buying anything on eBay for three weeks, nothing.

Please join in, as it is to your benefit too.