Comments on: why i still own eBay http://www.gregisraelsen.com/2008/05/why-i-still-own-ebay/ electrical engineer. political junkie. app developer. law student. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: shady http://www.gregisraelsen.com/2008/05/why-i-still-own-ebay/comment-page-1/#comment-19 shady Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:51:15 +0000 http://postmidnight.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-19 Shady says : I absolutely agree with this ! Shady says : I absolutely agree with this !

]]> By: thebrewsnews http://www.gregisraelsen.com/2008/05/why-i-still-own-ebay/comment-page-1/#comment-18 thebrewsnews Mon, 26 May 2008 00:48:19 +0000 http://postmidnight.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-18 It is true that you, as an eBay buyer, are now able to leave negative feedback for an underperforming seller without fear of a reliatory negative feedback. Keep in mind, however, that other sellers can view the number of times and for what reasons you left negative feedback and if a seller has some concerns they could specifically block you from bidding on their items which would limit the choices you have available on eBay. If a seller doesn't perform and the buyer has communicated their reasonable demands to the seller then, as a final stage to the transaction, a neutral or negative feedback is warranted. Other sellers can tell if a buyer is leaving truthful negative feedback or if a buyer has a history of leaving neutral / negative feedback without cause or without communication. As far as eBay's "evolution", most of their new and improved policies are copied directly from Amazon. We sell on Amazon as well as eBay and so we see the new eBay "rules", including neutral feedback scoring and the Detailed Seller Rating stars, are patterned 100% after Amazon's feedback rating system. As far as eBay's "growth" over the past few years, it isn't there. For the first time ever, during the latest holiday season, the number of visits to Amazon outgrew the number of visits to eBay. The stock market analyist I communicate with has had concerns about eBay for many months. And just recently the other stock analysts of major invevstment firms downgraded eBay's stock. It is too soon to determine what kind of long-term impact these new changes at eBay will have on their community. I hope for you that the stock market has a more favorable view of the changes at eBay than a lot of stock analyists and eBay sellers have. It is true that you, as an eBay buyer, are now able to leave negative feedback for an underperforming seller without fear of a reliatory negative feedback. Keep in mind, however, that other sellers can view the number of times and for what reasons you left negative feedback and if a seller has some concerns they could specifically block you from bidding on their items which would limit the choices you have available on eBay.

If a seller doesn’t perform and the buyer has communicated their reasonable demands to the seller then, as a final stage to the transaction, a neutral or negative feedback is warranted. Other sellers can tell if a buyer is leaving truthful negative feedback or if a buyer has a history of leaving neutral / negative feedback without cause or without communication.

As far as eBay’s “evolution”, most of their new and improved policies are copied directly from Amazon. We sell on Amazon as well as eBay and so we see the new eBay “rules”, including neutral feedback scoring and the Detailed Seller Rating stars, are patterned 100% after Amazon’s feedback rating system.

As far as eBay’s “growth” over the past few years, it isn’t there. For the first time ever, during the latest holiday season, the number of visits to Amazon outgrew the number of visits to eBay. The stock market analyist I communicate with has had concerns about eBay for many months. And just recently the other stock analysts of major invevstment firms downgraded eBay’s stock.

It is too soon to determine what kind of long-term impact these new changes at eBay will have on their community. I hope for you that the stock market has a more favorable view of the changes at eBay than a lot of stock analyists and eBay sellers have.

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