Guys,
Check this one out latest from TAG {The Auction Guild}.
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Since ebaY announced the fee increase that goes into effect 18 Feb 05, TAG has observed an ongoing outpouring of anger and frustration against ebaY. This was further fueled by ebaY North American President Bill Cobb posting on the Marketing Announcement Board, and sending an email to ebaY users, trying to calm the furor, and tossing a few crumbs to the multitude, while he (figuratively) feasted on cake. (Cake being that he cashed out approx 9.5 Million in ebaY stock in 2003 and 22.5 Million in 2004 and as of Oct 04 owned 17,000 more shares he received from ebaY, not counting stock options which he tends to execute and immediately sell)
ebaY’s stance is that the users would not be making such a fuss if they really understood the price increase. Sellers don’t appreciate ebaY assuming that sellers are too stupid to understand what a fee increase is or what it entails. ebaY also appears to be shrugging off the furor, as shown by a recent quote by CEO Meg Whitman, “This is not the most upset the community has been,'' Whitman said. “They have a lot of issues they'd like us to change, and Bill has done a good job of reopening the dialogue. So, we'll see. But this isn't the first time they've been this mad.” And from Bill Cobb, “It's not the loudest [outcry]. But it was loud. Some of it is fair. I'm not going to comment [on the planned strike].” In fact implying, the sellers have been mad in the past and done nothing about it, they are not going to do anything now either.
From all that TAG has observed, read on the online auction and trading industry (OAI/OTI) boards, and hears from subscribers, the price increase comes on top of endless problems, months of double billing, sellers closed down by “mistake”, items not indexing, slow page loads, ebaY sponsored mediaplex double click and ebaY toolbar spyware infecting computers, and other problems ad infinitum. The site does not work and ebaY wants to increase fees, despite their record breaking profits every quarter the company has been in business. ebaY claims their users are part of the great ebaY community, but the only ones who get rich and fat are ebaY insiders, and sellers say they are going to act.
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Guys, Both buyers, but above all sellers on Bazee, or as our good friend Quicksilvervoho says "Ebayzee" - we are all in big time trouble.....
Its time to really check this out. Ebay treats sellers like dung, really. Our bazee was better until these firangis with there high and migty attitude came by to spoil things. Sellers especially, they'll bleed you dry then throw u out, there are hundreds of top seller examples like this on ebay....mark my words we hv bought from them.
DO NOT be ovverwhelmed or get fooled by these ebayers. The bazee staff dont even know whats going to hit them...most of them will be replaced or fired...
Seller, buyers, protest openly their stupid policies. or they will ruin both sellers and buyers. please believe us.
If they do, we'll sue them their own way. Ebay is a potential enron, going down, dwon, down....
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