I’m curious how many policy violations Buy would be allowed before being restricted?

If your kids were shopping for comic books on eBay, who would want them seeing this stuff? That’s about the time ebay.com would get into my firewall’s blocking filter.

Guess it doesn’t want to put all of its eggs in the paypal basket.

Here are the item numbers:
180258161717
150263326627

This abuse of the marketplace and double-standards are so against what Pierre said last month in his video interviews, it is clear that the videos were simply window dressing and like Pierre’s Values Statement, are being cast aside.

ebay has a problem they do not discuss for whatever reason. Counterfeits. They lost another lawsuit yesterday.

They are in deep dodo in Europe simply because of the way the court system is (so some of their actions are bizarre in relationship to US sellers).

They are losing alot of money in these court battles and European law holds a higher standard to ebay on this issue than other courts – and european nations have a centralized legal system.

ebay has seen the problem growing, losing more and more suits in European, being find, paying out cash.

Now the counterfeit issue falls onto ebay’s lap – they should have stopped the practice years ago when they were minor. Now it is a monster.

They have two choices that I can think of (maybe there are more but 2 are all my feeble mind could come up with).

1. Expend monetary resources and eliminate counterfeits on the site.

2. Remove private small sellers and replace them with major retailers who are less likely to sell counterfeits.

Which do you think ebay opted for?

First, I want to let you know, despite you being paid to spin for ebay, the interview I had conducted with you, I felt you were a relatively decent person.
I say this, because you were polite, and courteous. Much more than I can say about myself.
But, I say “relatively”, because I could not spin for ebay, as I dont believe a word coming from the execs.

But that aside. I’d like to know how you are spinning the numbers with regards to Buy.

Here are the numbers. You can verify them yourself. The source is Terapeak.com:

These numbers were taken from Terapeak and are based on a 90 day history (March 2, 2008-May 31, 2008).
The most current info I have:
Seller: Buy
Total Items Listed: 2,708,987
Total sales: $3,924,907
Successful listings: 64,638
Total Items Offered: 249,431,285
SELL THRU RATE: 2.39%
Average Sale: $44.43
MINIMUM listing fee would be: $270,898.70 (based on the minimum 10 cent listing fee, AND does not include dutch auctions, or Final Value Fees).
Minimum fee, including dutch auctions: $24,943,128.5 Does not include Final Value Fees).

It does NOT take a rocket scientist to see what is going on here.
Ebay is offering Buy.com free listings to pad the numbers to demonstrate our boycott is ineffective. You yourself was quoted as saying how ineffective the boycott was. Based on numbers I saw, ebay lost a minimum of $2.4 million per day, just on listing fees alone. When we add in extras that were lost, FVFs, and store closures, it looks closer to $5, maybe even $10m.
I realize ebay generates a ton of money; which is why I am so perplexed by the greed, and the need to push out sellers.
There is no doubt that ebay’s owned shopping.com (and, yes, Buy IS an SDC company) is padding numbers and pushing sellers out.
Earlier this week, Buy had 44% of ALL items listed in Books.
What was even MORE puzzling is the fact that Buy cancelled MANY auctions at 1am, and many were “dutch” auctions, “because they were no longer available”.
I’d love to hear ebay’s spin on this.
Tim
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How come there is no mention of it in the 10 K?

go to the powersellers unite look at the different auction venues and pick the one with the most listings (not ioffer). You get traffic with keywords- that is why there is traffic on eBay- it is only because we list our stuff creating the keywords for search engines to find us. So if you add your stuff to the most populated of the alternatives you will benefit from all the listings (keywords) that the other sellers have provided, and they from yours.