04-08-2006, 05:44 AM
There is a show I watch on tv with a fellow named Steve Dotto about computers, software, internet. I was searching the net for his site, I queried his name and stumbled across an article he wrote for a newspaper...
Title: Losing interest in EBay
full story here:
http://www.nsnews.com/issues06/w040206/0...06ho4.html
I was fascinated with the article because you mean I'm not the only one feeling like this about eBay?
Title: Losing interest in EBay
Quote:Where did the EBay I loved go?
Someone hijacked the neat community and replaced it with a superstore.
I was a hard-core EBay nut. I loved the voyage of discovery that EBay offered. Each week I found new gems to admire, or perhaps even purchase. Fulfilling success was found when I sold my first item, got paid and pocketed the proceeds.
I would check out what was new on EBay everyday, like so many others. We honed our sniping skills, learning to monitor a bargain we had "discovered," lurking in the weeds, a bid and backup bid pre-entered on our computer to be submitted just as the auction clock ticked to zero. There was pure joy in swooping in to snatch the deal from under the nose of the poor chump who placed early bids and then thought that they had won, only to be trumped by our superior strategy.
Quote:Sadly, for me the music is gone. No more jig dancing. EBay has outgrown me. Where there was once a community now sits a corporate presence. Where people used to sell this and that out of their basement and garages, massive resellers now list thousands of items. You can barely find individuals selling on EBay anymore; all the sellers are stores. They have lost the fun, the innocence, the community, the essence of what EBay had been.
full story here:
http://www.nsnews.com/issues06/w040206/0...06ho4.html
I was fascinated with the article because you mean I'm not the only one feeling like this about eBay?