Interesting Memorial on the Death of Ebay Valet

[momcqueen]

I thought this was interesting to read. Not that the program was ever available to us here in Canada but I was always curious as to how it worked. I've been approached casually by people who sort of float the idea that I sell for them and they're not interested past the point of me telling them I'd keep 50 per cent of the asking price to cover my costs. And that's not even making a lot of money off someone else's stuff, it's covering costs and a few bucks for my time. 

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2018/8/1534616605.html

[hlmacdon]

It was pretty shocking to see how badly this was run. This is the problem when you get some executive that hatches plans on napkins over their latest business lunch and fails to write anything in the "cons" section. If you let people send in whatever they want, of course they are just going to send everything, if for no other reason to have a good chuckle.

Reminds me of a certain retailer that once had a blank free shipping policy on everything.  A customer put that to the test and was ordering things by the pallet load. Mind you I've done the same with another retailer and managed to fill up almost an entire UPS truck just with my own supplies since their aging algorithm had dropped a certain range of products down to a ridiculously low price. 

[silverpinups]

The eBay Valet Program should be a good lesson for eBay and perhaps give them some insight into what sellers go through on a daily basis with their restraining selling polices, especially if with their thinking of implementing even more control over sellers in the upcoming years.....

eBay just doesn't seem to learn from pass failures and they just keep going down a path of destruction that will drive many more of their quality sellers away from the platform. 

I know I'll be leaving in 2-3 years once they make their Ayden Payment System mandatory....

[hlmacdon]

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@silverpinups wrote:

The eBay Valet Program should be a good lesson for eBay and perhaps give them some insight into what sellers go through on a daily basis with their restraining selling polices, especially if with their thinking of implementing even more control over sellers in the upcoming years.....

eBay just doesn't seem to learn from pass failures and they just keep going down a path of destruction that will drive many more of their quality sellers away from the platform.   

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One would hope so but the problem with subcontracting things out is it provides the executives directly responsible for the failure with a convenient scapegoat. I don't get the sense there is much personal accountability with executives in the US, judging by their constant lurching from one disaster to another without any consequence.