the strike.

ormus

i wont be selling, just looking for the bargains.
ive got a few items on my watch list.

lost a camera last night cause AOL went down again!!!:mad:

joshua_tree77

SteveW, I think you are wrong. Have you read this meeting transcript from the Deutsche Bank - the members of the IMA are serious sellers and they as well as thousands of others are very concerned about many of the changes.

Please take the time to read the meeting transcript which explains the issues and the implications of the changes in much more detail than tabloid news sites.

http://imamerchant.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/deutschebankpatel020608.pdf

Read through the Ebay forums and see messages from Ebay shop owners who shutdown their online shops in support of the site boycott. Sellers who have ended all their listings, and intelligent buyers who understand the implications of the changes.

Ebay deleted 60 pages of content from just one of the forum threads this morning - they don't like people to see the truth - but there is still some good stuff left.

As far as listing statistics go, they were falsely inflated last week by Ebay offering a cheap listing day in the US; smoke & mirrors...

To see real listing statistics, checkout the PowerSellersUnite website:

http://www.powersellersunite.com/auctionsitewatch.php

regards, JT

StaffsSW

JT - this is the UK, the effects are not being noticed here.

As a member of PSU myself, I know it consists mainly of EX-eBay sellers who set up their own sites or moved to alternative selling venues after the last wave of changes around shop visbility issues. So if thousands of EX sellers are boycotting eBay, it's hardly going to be a noticeable effect. It's interesting to see how many members of PSU who have links to what remains of their ebay shop, still have listings on eBay as we speak.

There is a hardcore of vocal US sellers who are making a big noise about going on strike, but my thought remains that it has been badly thought out. What happens on the 25th - back to work as normal is it?

What's the longer term agenda for the boycott? Do you honestly think eBay will care about the boycott, since everyone has said they'll be back on the 25th? This has been a monumental wasted effort by the US "sellers" - it could have been so well implemented, but failed at the first hurdle. Indicative of a lot of US political situations really...

eBay boards are regularly BP'd by many people, trolls & liveworld. I would not consider it censorship, merely a thread that got out of hand.

StaffsSW

Also - I read the transcript last week. After seeing Jeetil Patel's phrase of the moment was "You Know", and every paragraph was peppered with the phrase, I decided that anything he said was not worth listening to.

For such a high profile role, not much in the way of articulation was demonstrated, and hardly a good representative for the forum.

I'll make my own business decisions on ebay selling. If people do not like the changes, and can not adapt their business strategy to meet a changing marketplace, then perhaps ebay is not the ideal venue for them. Which suits me fine, as it's less competition for those of us that can adapt and change.

imagia

stevew8975 wrote: »

What's the longer term agenda for the boycott? Do you honestly think eBay will care about the boycott, since everyone has said they'll be back on the 25th? This has been a monumental wasted effort by the US "sellers" - it could have been so well implemented, but failed at the first hurdle.

It's true that the boycott hasn't been "properly" organised, but then I don't think that was the aim. It's about making noise and letting feebay know sellers aren't happy.

While the boycott is supposed to "end" on the 25th, I think it would be naive to think everyone will be coming back. The changes, especially to the feedback rules have hacked off people to the point of quitting. Many have moved to the competitors in the U.S. (where apathy does not reign.) There will be many that continue to boycott. And then there are people like me that will sell the things they have left before May and say sayonara.