eBay Auctions Down 13% Due to Boycott

Posted by Ty Colfax - Monday, February 25, 2008 11:13 AM

In a show of solidarity against the tyrannical business maneuvering exacting by eBay executives recently, the proletariat listing masses have brought the venerable auction site to its shuddering knobby knees. Actually, it's not that big of a deal, but some users are angered over fee increases and the elimination of feedback for sellers.

Anyone who has used eBay knows that trust is huge when you're buying that Elvis toenail trimmer from that guy is Saskatoon. You gotta know it's going to make it to you once you've paypaled your savings over to him.

The week-long strike, which mysteriously ended today after no action from eBay was taken, dropped the site to 13 million listings, all of which will probably be made up in the next week. It's like those mass emails that try to hurt the oil companies by having people not buy gas on one day, as if they're not going to need gas the next. Silly voodoo economics.

usatoday.com: Online auction listings down 13% in boycott of eBay

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Posted by WildfireFox - Monday, February 25, 2008 11:27 AM

eBay needs to rework a lot of things on the site. It's customer support system, it's broken feedback system, and more protection for scams on the site. This is merely the tip of the iceberg.

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Posted by curtisferguson86 - Monday, February 25, 2008 11:56 AM

The only thing that has changed so far is the fees and some of the operations changes. The feedback system isn't changing until May. Does this mean that we'll see another boycott in a couple more months?

People can be so stupid, don't they realize that the User Agreement they clicked "yes" to says, simply, "We are eBay, this is our site, and we'll do what we want." They agreed to it, and if they want to continue using it, they'll have to deal with it.

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Posted by jrmylmb - Monday, February 25, 2008 1:33 PM

i'm always annoyed when people get so acquianted with something that they consider it an important social service and therefore not a corporation that is only trying to stay alive. so, then they go on strike and try to pretend like they have a bunch of bargaining power. fools.

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Posted by tarshimo - Monday, February 25, 2008 4:12 PM

actually this boycott was extended another week

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Posted by Logrus - Monday, February 25, 2008 7:39 PM

I gave up on Ebay a long time ago. I was getting sick and tired of losing an Ebay bid with 3 seconds left to go to some unknown guy only to see the exact same thing up a week later by the original seller for a bit more money.

Nowadays the sites nothing but scams. Phishing sites, paypal scammers, people bidding on there own item to avoid low bids, stuff never being sent, being sent damaged.

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