Oh the Passion!! A little late perhaps.....

[tea_past_times]

Well it sure seems by the look of this board that many powersellers have finally woken up and smelled the coffee. Good Morning!! Wakey Wakey!! Ebay has made some awful changes to the site.
So many new and seldom seen ID's posting on the board this week. Where have you been? All this was announced January 29th. Personally, I posted against these changes in every forum I could until Ebay suspended me from the chats for a week for doing so.
I also moved 95% of my online sales to other sites(and continue to do so). I also stopped selling altogether for six weeks to send a message and had one Ebay bill as low as $37.00 one month.(sending a small financial message)
I also changed the way I list, by closing my Ebay store and only listing starting at 99 cents, to further reduce Ebay's take.
All of this results in about $4,000 per year less for Ebay. Absolutely a drop in the bucket to be sure, but what if:

100 sellers did as me: $400,000 per year less for Ebay
1000 sellers did as me: $4 million per year less for Ebay
10,000 sellers did as me: $40 million per year less for Ebay.

You're all a little late getting on board the upset train, but it's not too late to cut your Ebay fees down to the bare minimum and send the company a message.

Will you do it now!!??

[tea_past_times]

ALL ABOARD!!

[tea_past_times]

I feel a little like Noah watching the rain start to fall today!

[tea_past_times]

One by one or two by two I don't care but let's show this company how we feel in the only language they are capable of understanding. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[doufaceb]

I am in.

I am buliding my own site.
It may loose money, but at least I get fair play.

[doufaceb]

Also I beleive, once you do well, customer will follow you.

No metter ebay or someplace else.

[dipmicro]

Tea, you are doing exactly what eBay wants. They have planned this, you are doing them the service. If there is any seller that cannot make the ends meet, they do not want them here. They want don't want to be categorized as "Garage Sale" but as a "Marketplace".

How do you do a makeover of a company:

1. Clean the place (new, better versions of software)

2. Get rid of unhappy employees by introducing new policies, they will leave by themselves.

3. Reward the ones who stay (DSR discounts)

Sorry to break this to you, but you are a the model unhappy employee 😉 By all your agitation you are doing eBay free service and motivating other unhappers to leave for better pastures.

That's why they keep you. They cannot tell other sellers to go away, but you can 🙂

[terrym5512]

Actually tea, you're right - I get requests for items that are not up on auction all the time. We should all have our own web stores. Ony the 5 & dimers will be on eBay and it will end up being a dollar store auction house anyway.

[doufaceb]

to dipmicro

The difference here is, we can choose stay or go.

But ebay cannot force us stay or leave.

[gifts_of_elegance]

dipmicro: I think you owe a big apology to tea_past_times.
As for eBay being a "Market Place" and not a "Garage Sale", you are right. So when are you going to sell "Market Place" items?

[dipmicro]

So when are you going to sell "Market Place" items?

gifts_of_elegance, everything except "Others" category are brand new products purchased at wholesale quantities from distribution or manufacturers and some manufactured to my specification. If I touch an electronic component myself, it's not in my store anymore.