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at Jun 15, 2008 10:04 PM Ebays Future Hammer Time. What tricks and gimicks are next? Is there a rabbit in eBays hat? Is this a marketing or business arrangement experiment, or is this a very disturbing and sinister version of company value manipulation? Is there going to be yet another secretary document shredding investigation? It may appear suspicious that eBay would form a business arrangement with Buy.com at the same time as the implementation of the controversial reputation and revenue damaging feedback policies. Whether or not management is "padding the numbers", (with questionable Buy listings), in a veiled attempt to keep up appearances, allowing time for new empowered buyers to gather is debatable. Whether or not there is a solid case against eBay for the Better Business Bureau, the FTC, the SEC, the Attorney General or a class action lawsuit, or even a criminal prosecution is a matter to be very seriously pondered. Whether or not John Donohoe will ever face justice, whether or not these policies constitute a criminal act, whether anyone is liable for irreparable harm is yet to be determined. Seemingly beyond an attempt to "cook the books", these combined policy decisions may appear to be the opposite of a "pump and dump" investment scheme, - a "bear attack"- (an attempt to drive down the value of company stock,) and bears close scrutiny. If this is not a clumsily masterminded conspiracy, or misleading and deceptive practices, or some attempt to monopolize certain category sales for under the table profit, then what is it? Is leadership on the line with an attempt to defraud investors while the company poses to repurchase an announced 1.9 billion dollars worth of company stock, and is this going to become headline news? If there comes an announcement at the Live! convention of the cancellation of the questionable Buy.com agreement, if there is a sudden rollback of the feedback policies all this will just be coincidence and management comes out smelling like a rose, right? Wrong. When the gavel drops, company reputation, member trust and potential revenue have been wasted. The rising global flood of competition grows, steadily eroding this pathetic sand castle. Obviously at the very least, these decisions will be the focus of investigation and study by students of economics and law, by business law specialists and by media now and for many years to come. Until proper member safeguards are adopted, from the perspective of countless users, eBay company reputation is no better than that of their worst member. google this to find it: froliky
at Jun 14, 2008 01:46 AM Ebay Is Fading They used to have a great thing going. But the usual greed associated with success is steadily chasing away good sellers.. Beth Axelrod & crew should be drawn and quartered for their leech-like business practices. It is beyond me how a company enjoying such past success can repeatedly shoot itself in the foot. like this. Oh well, let them rot... They certainly deserve a slow death at this point.
at Jun 12, 2008 07:26 PM EBAY STOCKHOLDERS BEWARE!!! onedollartommy's ABRUPT END OF AUCTIONS
at Jun 12, 2008 07:24 PM RAMPANT EBAY FRAUD & STOCK MANIPULATION!!! Feedback Profile onedollartommy ( 65305 ) Member is a PowerSeller Positive Feedback (last 12 months): 99% Member since: Dec-17-02 in GA. United States 151,841 Feedback received COMPARED TO 112,866 Feedback left W/FEEDBACK SCORE MERELY JOKINGLY 65305!
at Jun 12, 2008 07:21 PM RAMPANT EBAY FRAUD & STOCK MANIPULATION!! Feedback Profile onedollartommy ( 65305 ) Member is a PowerSeller Positive Feedback (last 12 months): 99% Member since: Dec-17-02 in GA. United States 151,841 Feedback received COMPARED TO 112,866 Feedback left W/FEEDBACK SCORE MERELY JOKINGLY 65305!
at Jun 12, 2008 04:28 PM Ebay Padding Tens of thousands of ebay members, have closed our stores and ended our auctions, because it is just to dangerous to sell right now, having no recourse. The last I looked, we have 47,000 people, who have signed the petition, against the new policies. We found out that ebay is padding their listings, to keep up the listing count. They brought buy.com, into the auction site and they are listing millions of auctions and then ending them early, to avoid them being counted, on the sell through rate. Then they are immediately relisting these auctions, to keep the listing count up. This is making it look like the listing count is up, when it actually isn't, to throw off the boycott. Is this fraud and shouldn't the investors know about it? We really need to get someone to look into it further.
at Jun 12, 2008 04:18 PM Ebay's sell through rate absent from analysis The final sale of an item is where the real profits on Ebay are made, especially since Ebay lowered the initial listing fees. Seems like there's a lot more to the ebay debacle story than is being told.
at Jun 12, 2008 03:38 PM eBay member risk VS market share In refards to eBay market share, the increased seller risk associated with Paypal payments, product competition, buyer fraud and higher listing fees are beginning to manifest significantly. Management is changing the climate and the down home appeal as it attracts a slightly more slick, aggressive seller. A fair "Transaction Rating System" would help a great deal to restore eBays pace and potential in the world of ecommerce.