[Phono-L] OT - Ebay rebellion

michael funk funk at insightbb.com
Sat Feb 2 09:46:07 PST 2008


Ebay's stock price on Jan. 29 when the fee structure and pricing changes
were made was 25.72.  At the market's close yesterday, Feb. 1, it was 28.81.

Need I say more.  



-----Original Message-----
From: phono-l-bounces at oldcrank.org [mailto:phono-l-bounces at oldcrank.org] On
Behalf Of Jim Nichol
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 10:05 AM
To: Antique Phonograph List
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] OT - Ebay rebellion

Exactly.  The whole idea of feedback was flawed from the beginning.

Jim

On Feb 2, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Rich wrote:

> Just to play devils advocate here.  What about the seller who is  
> ripped off by th buyer?  If that seller leaves negative FB for the  
> buyer he can be sure that he will receive a negative comment in  
> return.
>
> Jim Nichol wrote:
>> Isn't is obvious? Buyers usually wouldn't leave bad feedback for  
>> ripoff sellers, because they don't want to risk retaliation by the  
>> seller.  For that reason, I have never left negative feedback for a  
>> seller, even when he deserved it. I don't want my 100% record to be  
>> ruined by his retaliation.  When I get ripped off by a seller, I  
>> just don't leave feedback at all.
>> Jim
>> On Feb 1, 2008, at 8:55 PM, Albert wrote:
>>> wondered about this too.  What is Ebays rationale for not allowing  
>>> sellers to leave negative feed back on buyers?  can somebody  
>>> comment?  Al Menashe
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Boyles" <66pony at cox.net>
>>> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 4:40 PM
>>> Subject: [Phono-L] OT - Ebay rebellion
>>>
>>>
>>>> Looks like there is a big push back on the upcoming Ebay  
>>>> changes......
>>>>
>>>>
http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/31/smbusiness/ebay_fee_hike.fsb/index.htm?postv
ersion=2008013116
>>>>
>>>> It appears there is a orchestrated event asking sellers not to  
>>>> list and buyers not to bid during the week of Feb 20-27. It may  
>>>> get interesting......
>>>> Eric
>>>>
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