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August 22, 2008

eBay No Longer Just a Venue

Filed under: What's Up With eBay.com — Tags: eBay, ebay stock, eBay venue, fraud, sell on eBay, selling on eBay, venue — trudey @ 7:26 am

For the last 12 years, whenever some seller broke the law by selling contraband on eBay the court room echoed with, “eBay is just a venue.”

As a matter of fact, no matter what responsibility some court or organzation tried to point at eBay, the hallowed halls resounded, “eBay is just a venue.”

Well, just like the business owner who tried to claim his secretary was an independent contractor, it just doesn’t fly anymore. (more…)

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Can eBay Be Sued for Libel?

Filed under: What's Up With eBay.com — Tags: Add new tag, eBay, eBay DSR, eBay feedback, lawsuit, sell on eBay — trudey @ 7:16 am

I recently read an article on Auctionbytes.com. A really good site by the way.

In this article “Griff,” one of the most popular eBay gurus, author of many books on eBay, host of eBay Talk Radio and Head of eBay University, stated how he stood behind all the changes in the eBay platform since their beginnings in late last fall. How all these changes are needed to revitalize the eBay’s growth.

I thougt this quite ironic since many of the initiated changes have litereally been recalled. Why? Officially because eBay has heard the community, the same community that was called “noise” back in February by Mr. Donahoe, eBay’s newest man in charge.

Unofficially, I think it was more because these changes are either costing eBay a loss in revenue (less sales=less final value fees) or for other unsubstantiated reasons, such as the world wide eBay boycott and eBay stock value plummeting.

Anyways, one of the changes that has been recanted is the Neutrals = Negatives. The reason this has caught my attention more than the other changes is because of it’s devastating result on many small and mid size sellers. I don’t include PowerSellers because, although many have left eBay, they had the financial means to open their own sites or move to other sites and take their customers with them. (more…)

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