I hate ebay

eBay is despicable in its treatment of its customers, users and partners. part to blame is that it is accessible by so many fraudulent scam artists. their tough rules and aggressive behaviour reveberates to all customers and this is a problem.

Meg is a strategy consultant and follows Porter’s strategic forces to a tee when trying to usurp market power by all means including customers, partners, suppliers, and rivals.

In the end, they are not good at keeping their good customers. this action against craigslist is a symptom of this litigious, overly aggressive culture at eBay.

However, if they win this battle, make sure you are trying to win the war.
A multi-industry coalition against eBay should be formed to teach it a lesson.

Good luck Craiglist.

i have an idea…how about $274 per hour for meg and ten thousand per hour can pay some staff to actually perform some customer service…(that stuff they claim sellers should do, yeah, the stuff they never have done) the extra $10 per hour…split back to 24 hours=$5 k per hour solid through 10 years would pay 250 customer service reps…

i guess you have to be okay with taking cash that should be used to help the people that made it be there in the first place, in order to be a ceo at ebay?

the reason laws exist in the first place…to make sure whats happening at ebay doesn’t happen.

just my 2 cents…had to add it

The fact is, the craigslist concept is killing ebay. While they’ve made tactical decisions to inflate their profits short-term, they (ebay) are a dated concept in a rapidly evolving technological world.

That craigslist actually allowed a chief competitor to buy an appreciable stake in their operation tells me that maybe the Craigslist decision-makers need to be a little less “San Francisco” and get a little more “New York City” with their business strategies.

This Trojan Horse was clear in coming.

I have been reading what is going on and it appears to me that ebay wants it BOTH WAYS!

If ebay can launch a rival to Craigslist than Craigslist should be able to do the same, especially seeing that ebay has the auction advantage at this time anyway.

I think ebay knows that their new changes were going to drive MANY sellers (like kyself) away and seeing that craigslist has such a HUGE market it feared them as the place in which their customers would run to. This part they have it right though.

I would come to Craigslist in a second and so would MILLIONS of other people. Ebay would sink like a lead brick! Then Craigslist could buy a MAJORITY share in ebay..lol

For all of you ebayers who have not heard what Donahue has called its sellers you should know. He calls us NOISE, he said ebay was a Flea market (not that tha is bad) but to him it is. It was these “Flea market” folks who made ebay what it is. But of course, once we have put them where they wanted to be, we are thrown out with the trash.

And get this, I have heard that ebay was HAPPY about the boycotts because it drove stock prices down which allowed employees to buy them up at a cheaper price.

They were also caught listing hundreds of thousands and maybe even millions of listings during boycotts. It is believed that this was meant to deceive stockholders into thinking the boycotts had no affect on listings.

When BUSTED for these FAKE lsitings they first claimed it was an error, then they said it was a test. They still haven’t decided which stand they will take on the issue.

You see, these listings were found to be from one of their other sites. They posted shipping at prices like 500 for a can of oil, a generator for like 2200 shipping etc (violating their own ploicies). and if you did try and bid on an item it would say it was not a valid listing etc.

Now call be crazy but what are the odds that they would run “tests” of hundreds of thousands of listings, which were clearly bogus te exact same time there was a boycott.

You can find tis info at youtube. Just type in ebay BUSTED.
I wish you well Craigslist and please do not give up because that is what they are hoping for. They will try to bombard you in litigation to try and brake you but consider opening up an auction site and BEAT them with their own baton.