eBay blocks 15,000 sellers from listing

[cumos55]

Link to

http://www.examiner.com/article/ebay-blocks-15-000-sellers-from-listing

Who is next?

[Anonymous]

I find it very amusing that eBay needs to do that??  I am sure that eBay will be getting way lots of lawsuits hitting them like never before!!  Tsk, tsk to eBay!!

[pjcdn2005]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I find it very amusing that eBay needs to do that??  I am sure that eBay will be getting way lots of lawsuits hitting them like never before!!  Tsk, tsk to eBay!!

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What would they sue for? It's not a right to be able to sell here.

[73rhc]

All you have to do is read some of the other threads here to see the discontent. Some posters here would have you believe that this is normal and a good business practice. Whatever!

[cumos55]

Recent legal ruling  that applies to all  US sellers... All US sellers had to opt in in relation to this new legal standing, by way of eBay's new requirement to be or continue as a US seller on eBay

No class action suits.

Each seller must sue eBay individually.

and if I remember correctly the suit must be made in Arizona for all US sellers.

Canadian sellers can still have a class action suit....Different legal standing in Canada.

[73rhc]

I'd sign up!

[inuk_the_polar_bear]

I suspect the word seller is disingenuous. They would be the one or two a month sellers who can't handle it. I have said for a long time that eBay is moving to go big or go home.

That is .01% of active IDs.

[73rhc]

But what percentage of active sellers?

Hard to go big when you have a selling limit!

[inuk_the_polar_bear]

Probably not many. The kind of seller the world would not miss anyway.

[73rhc]

Not sure that I would put everyone in the same basket!

[Anonymous]

I still think it is amusing that eBay would do that and at the same time making their shareholders not happy when their next quarter took a deep dip without those 15,000 sellers!!  HMMM??  Did eBay think about that before blocks those sellers??

I am sure that the shareholders wouldn't be happy to see less $$$$ for the first time in who knew how long since??

And what more to block those sellers are not going to resolve for everyone.  By blocking those sellers, sellers cannot "improve" or make any changes!

It is like blocking Walmart just because Walmart gets an average of 1,000 returns daily in one store!  Ha to eBay!   It shows that there are lots of people at eBay don't know what they are doing in the first place, yet they are getting paid for doing those kinds of performances that are insane.  Where can I apply for those jobs?  LOL!!

[king_of_kings_1970]

I am part of this, I have only a 45 lisitng rule for the month, I called them up and laughed at them. I asked them how they benefit from this since I am a power seller. They told me they don't. I continued to laugh as I said I have my own store site and I listed elsewhere at no fees at all. How long before eveyone leaves Ebay., LOL

[inuk_the_polar_bear]

Q2 result posted July 17: As expected, eBay reported decent financial results in Q2 2013 today. Revenue was up 14% to $3.9 billion, compared to the same period of 2012.

[king_of_kings_1970]

Is this coming from Ebay themselves because I can throw some flashy numbers out and make it look like I made a decent profit too.

[king_of_kings_1970]

I figure 15000 people with limited selling will mean they will have to let go a couple of people here and there

from Ebay headquartes since the manpower won`t be needed, correct!

[inuk_the_polar_bear]

Published, audited reports.

Further:

Total commerce across all of aBay’s platforms, including Marketplaces, PayPal and eBay Enterprise (formerly GSI Commerce) was up 21% for the quarter, to $51 billion.

Mobile attracting 3 million new customers in the quarter and is growing at more than 90%.

You think eBay cares about a puny bunch of whiners against those sort of numbers? Their game, their ball, their rules. They are making buckets of money their way. Amazon continues to lose money, quarter after quarter.

[rykkm]

I tend to agree that buyers have way too much power here, and sellers are often left twisting in the wind with not even negative feedback to post against ill informed buyers. Ebay seems to think that buyers are more important. Evidently, they use simple numbers to guage that there are a lot more potential buyers out there than sellers. But without sellers, they have nothing.

Still, I would assume that at least some of those sellers deserved their fate. Not all, but at least some. I would think that other sellers would be happy about this, as bad sellers give everyone a bad name.

[marnotom!]

[tobyshitzu]

The ones Ive seen post on .com were low volume, but the feedback you can see isnt that bad.  Some over 98%  and 4.7 and better dsrs.   Of course you can't see cases, but these aren't "bargainland" 10% neg sellers   Everyone should have at least a second id on the go so one can be dropped before it comes to suspension.  Couple bad buyers and al ittle bad luck with the mail  and I coud easily have the fb profile some of those sellers have

[ricarmic]

Hi King-of-kings.... do you know why they blocked you? Your stats don't look bad from what I see??