Ebay could have had both. The small sellers with their unique items, the basis and the driving force behind this company and built a separate ‘division’ to accomodate the big box sellers. The added benefit would have been-ebay could have been the ‘good guys’ by providing what they are ‘claiming’ now in this video. It would have been the RIGHT THING TO DO. The way things are looking, it’s appearing that they may end up with neither. And they would be deserving of that result. It’s called Kharma.

In this time of economic hardship, their actions have been cold, harsh and cruel to many, all resulting in the destruction of their livliehoods.

Ebay has earned all the fallout from what they have created. Greed never results in anything worth having. However, they have incredibley huge ‘stones’ to ask those whom they have stepped on and walked over, to now come to their defense!

I sold on ebay for over 6 years and thanks to all the rediculas changes and your fee hikes I no longer sell on ebay. Ebay stated they want the bigger retailers on the site and not the little guys.

Ebay has lost a lot of sellers and they have lost a lot of buyers when those sellers left. Sellers are buyers too. I haven’t bought or sold anything on ebay since Febuary when they announced all the changes. You lost me as a seller and a buyer.

Do us small sellers a favor ebay stop using us as an example as how your getting hurt by the big retailers you treated us the same way the big retailers are treating you. What did JD say the site looked like a garage sale? We the sellers were all just a bunch of noise? Well as it looks now ebay is losing a lot of traffic and its not because of the big retailers hurting you its because you trashed your own sellers.

Stop talking out of both sides of your mouth ebay.

eBay is going to find out just how difficult the recession/depression environment really is when they report 1st quarter results. Make it easy and REASONABLE to list on ebay and you won’t have to lobby congress. Get a brain!

“For the small businesses that have a kitchen-table for a boardroom – and smarts and sweat for a line of credit – the Internet is the way to break through to the consumer and give them choice with low prices and quality products. But make no mistake. Entrenched retail interests see those choices as a threat…”

I have been selling on eBay for 10 1/2 years, and for most of my tenure, eBay has been exactly what they say they are fighting for. However, when eBay starts making a public stand to fight for my rights to sell successfully, shouldn’t eBay first ‘look within’?

A significant number of eBay sellers now feel like it is eBay and not the ‘big box sellers’ who are trying to keep them from selling successfully. We deal with horribly high fees, low sell-through rates, constantly changing rules, regulations and site changes (most of which are unnecessary and time consuming). We deal with little to no customer service and take all of the risk in every transaction.. and we are forced to pay for it or sell elsewhere.

If eBay truly wants GOOD sellers with “a kitchen-table for a boardroom – and smarts and sweat for a line of credit”, then eBay needs to do anything and everything it can to keep them and win back the ones they have lost.

In the end, if eBay helps them succeed, then eBay succeeds as well. If eBay forces too many more out the door, then all of these efforts will have been for nothing.

Iam the President of Leegin – if the lawmakers really cared they would have talked to me.
I am the one who changed the law.