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[xirax]

If some major corporation wants to start an auction service competing with eBay -- now is the time. A lot of sellers are pissed off at the latest changes. Come on, Google! Your Google Base sucks. Get real. I'll even settle for Amazon.com or Microsoft auction site, just so eBay stops rising fees. Right now there's pretty much no competition -- all

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It's a buyer's market now

[eremitick]

I continue to dread the day when some jerkface buyer is going to scam me in a transaction because there's no risk in setting up another account to pull the same dirty tricks on another seller--Paypal and ebay's fraud "protection" is absolutely worthless. The upcoming shipping price cap is going to hurt me, too, when I've always been honest with the shipping costs.

Sellers have not fared well *at all* in the past few months. I haven't sold anything on ebay since, like May, but it's hard to neglect the biggest resale market out there. I'm selling some anime DVDs right now, and will continue to sell more in the next few weeks so I can get that done before more stupid policies get implemented.

Re: It's a buyer's market now

[xirax]

I am going to try out overstock.com auctions and ebid.net by selling three identical laptops there and on eBay and comparing the final price. But I don't really think they can compare.

[chibi_brooke]

I hope eBay realizes it's shot itself in the foot. Grr.

[anonymous]

I can't remember where I read this but Ebay is one of those accidental monopolies. Therefore you get this:
Ebay is the biggest auction site out there, so it gets the most traffic.
If I want to sell something, I need the biggest audience.
So I will use Ebay.

[xirax]

First to market = competitive advantage
That's why you need REALLY BIG money to start competing with eBay (to spend on advertising), and only a large corporation can do it. Same for, say, Facebook, or any site with user-generated content.