Comments on: eBay Plants “Garden” & Opens It Up To All. Meet the team behind it… http://ebayinkblog.com/2010/02/09/ebay-plants-garden-opens-it-up-to-all-meet-the-team-behind-it/ an inside look at the wide world of eBay, Inc. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:43:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt w/ Fullhouse Productions http://ebayinkblog.com/2010/02/09/ebay-plants-garden-opens-it-up-to-all-meet-the-team-behind-it/comment-page-1/#comment-15126 Matt w/ Fullhouse Productions Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:38:51 +0000 http://ebayinkblog.com/?p=5408#comment-15126 I love buying things on Ebay since they do not charge you. However recently I have been selling items on Ebay and I have been getting charged to death with seller fees and then what seems like a 10% fee of the item sold. Ebay what is up? I have been with you guys since 2000 and I am ready to go sell my stuff on another site for pro audio and sound. I wont go to C#@$!s List since I like selling on Ebay. Will you please consider reducing your fees before I am forced to leave. Thank you, Matt I love buying things on Ebay since they do not charge you. However recently I have been selling items on Ebay and I have been getting charged to death with seller fees and then what seems like a 10% fee of the item sold.

Ebay what is up? I have been with you guys since 2000 and I am ready to go sell my stuff on another site for pro audio and sound. I wont go to C#@$!s List since I like selling on Ebay. Will you please consider reducing your fees before I am forced to leave.

Thank you,

Matt

]]> By: deb http://ebayinkblog.com/2010/02/09/ebay-plants-garden-opens-it-up-to-all-meet-the-team-behind-it/comment-page-1/#comment-15106 deb Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:13:26 +0000 http://ebayinkblog.com/?p=5408#comment-15106 richard I am with you. They seem to have forgotten those of us that they built the business on. richard
I am with you. They seem to have forgotten those of us that they built the business on.

]]> By: John Short http://ebayinkblog.com/2010/02/09/ebay-plants-garden-opens-it-up-to-all-meet-the-team-behind-it/comment-page-1/#comment-15077 John Short Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:41:51 +0000 http://ebayinkblog.com/?p=5408#comment-15077 Is it just me or do all the videos above look over-rehearsed? Enough already eBay... we are now tired of listening to your "noise"! Is it just me or do all the videos above look over-rehearsed? Enough already eBay… we are now tired of listening to your “noise”!

]]> By: mindelec http://ebayinkblog.com/2010/02/09/ebay-plants-garden-opens-it-up-to-all-meet-the-team-behind-it/comment-page-1/#comment-15066 mindelec Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:51:30 +0000 http://ebayinkblog.com/?p=5408#comment-15066 richard, i wish i had a nickel for everytime someone at ebay said "this time we are listening to your input"... after 10 years of selling and a few years of that in voices, i know better. richard,

i wish i had a nickel for everytime someone at ebay said “this time we are listening to your input”… after 10 years of selling and a few years of that in voices, i know better.

]]> By: J http://ebayinkblog.com/2010/02/09/ebay-plants-garden-opens-it-up-to-all-meet-the-team-behind-it/comment-page-1/#comment-15062 J Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:41:56 +0000 http://ebayinkblog.com/?p=5408#comment-15062 Why should we think that eBay will listen after years of ignoring the paying customer? 95% of the site changes have been bad for the small seller. Now we're supposed to believe eBay cares? Worthless search, less page views, fewer bids, lower prices achieved, more problematic extorting buyers, terrible customer service from eBay and more is what I have experienced in the last 2 years. At least we will have the privilege of paying a huge increase in fees for substantially less. So we got that going for us. Why should we think that eBay will listen after years of ignoring the paying customer?

95% of the site changes have been bad for the small seller. Now we’re supposed to believe eBay cares?

Worthless search, less page views, fewer bids, lower prices achieved, more problematic extorting buyers, terrible customer service from eBay and more is what I have experienced in the last 2 years.

At least we will have the privilege of paying a huge increase in fees for substantially less. So we got that going for us.

]]> By: Richard Brewer-Hay http://ebayinkblog.com/2010/02/09/ebay-plants-garden-opens-it-up-to-all-meet-the-team-behind-it/comment-page-1/#comment-15060 Richard Brewer-Hay Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:57:17 +0000 http://ebayinkblog.com/?p=5408#comment-15060 @MINDELEC & DAVE S True, there was a project a few years ago called the Playground that I was aware of. I asked the guys about that during my interviews with them last week. Here, Josh breaks down the difference between the old Playground and the new Garden. Cheers, RBH <object width="500" height="275"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/S7IupdTA5uY&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&hd=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/S7IupdTA5uY&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="275"></embed></object> @MINDELEC & DAVE S
True, there was a project a few years ago called the Playground that I was aware of. I asked the guys about that during my interviews with them last week. Here, Josh breaks down the difference between the old Playground and the new Garden.
Cheers,
RBH

]]> By: DAVE S http://ebayinkblog.com/2010/02/09/ebay-plants-garden-opens-it-up-to-all-meet-the-team-behind-it/comment-page-1/#comment-15056 DAVE S Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:00:43 +0000 http://ebayinkblog.com/?p=5408#comment-15056 If Ebay wants to see what is really on it's users minds go to any auction or flea market as I do. One mention of Ebay to any dealer selling collectibles or vintage items will be met with a string of 4 letter words. Now 4 to 5 years ago these sellers all sold on Ebay and made great money . With all the changes most have dropped selling on Ebay and hope the site dies a quick death. Such a shame that Ebay has driven off so many of their once faithful customers with some really assinine changes. If they had listened to us then those customers would still be on the site. So why would we have any hope they would listen to us now. If Ebay wants to see what is really on it’s users minds go to any auction or flea market as I do. One mention of Ebay to any dealer selling collectibles or vintage items will be met with a string of 4 letter words. Now 4 to 5 years ago these sellers all sold on Ebay and made great money . With all the changes most have dropped selling on Ebay and hope the site dies a quick death. Such a shame that Ebay has driven off so many of their once faithful customers with some really assinine changes. If they had listened to us then those customers would still be on the site. So why would we have any hope they would listen to us now.

]]> By: DAVE S http://ebayinkblog.com/2010/02/09/ebay-plants-garden-opens-it-up-to-all-meet-the-team-behind-it/comment-page-1/#comment-15055 DAVE S Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:52:23 +0000 http://ebayinkblog.com/?p=5408#comment-15055 Mindelec is exactly right this is just another name for the old playground. For months we sent suggestions on thing that wouldn't work, things that weren't wanted things that were broken and 99% of the time everything that didn't work for our category was released on the site anyway. This is just another attempt by Ebay for good public relations. Look we let everyone test drive this and everyone loved the changes even when said changes are disliked by 80% of Ebays users. As we found out Ebay has it's mind set on what it wants not what we need to grow our business. When best match was introduced we asked if Ebay would ever make it the default search . We were promised no it would never be the default six months later it was the default. So don't tell us that our input has any bearing on anything Ebay does because we all know it won't matter what we like or dislike Ebay is going to do what it wants to do no matter how adversley it effects our business. Mindelec is exactly right this is just another name for the old playground. For months we sent suggestions on thing that wouldn’t work, things that weren’t wanted things that were broken and 99% of the time everything that didn’t work for our category was released on the site anyway.

This is just another attempt by Ebay for good public relations. Look we let everyone test drive this and everyone loved the changes even when said changes are disliked by 80% of Ebays users.

As we found out Ebay has it’s mind set on what it wants not what we need to grow our business. When best match was introduced we asked if Ebay would ever make it the default search . We were promised no it would never be the default six months later it was the default.

So don’t tell us that our input has any bearing on anything Ebay does because we all know it won’t matter what we like or dislike Ebay is going to do what it wants to do no matter how adversley it effects our business.

]]> By: mindelec http://ebayinkblog.com/2010/02/09/ebay-plants-garden-opens-it-up-to-all-meet-the-team-behind-it/comment-page-1/#comment-15051 mindelec Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:21:52 +0000 http://ebayinkblog.com/?p=5408#comment-15051 this is not a new idea, before best match was inflicted upon the site there was "the playground" this is not a new idea, before best match was inflicted upon the site there was “the playground”

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