The week of the 14th - the 21st of August 2006, we are asking all ebay sellers to boycott eBay by not listing and not buying. If you have a store, spend the time culling & restructuring. If you don't have a store, just do it to support your fellow sellers. WE DO HAVE A VOICE---LETS BE HEARD!!!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!
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Press coverage from the UK's largest Internet magazine:
Quote:Angry eBay sellers are threatening to boycott the UK auction site next week in protest at changes introduced to attract more buyers.
Some eBay Shop sellers are furious at the changes and have set up a forum that is devoted to holding a "listings strike" on 15 August in an attempt to "get eBay to consider the damage they do with these ill-considered changes they keep dreaming up and pushing through".
One eBay Shop seller told Web User: "I've sold regularly on eBay for a while and opened an eBay Shop at the start of the year and had some good sales... now a Shop has become little more than an expensive internet storage facility."...
"In the UK, sellers had a double-whammy, because eBay took away exposure to Shops items while raising fees...
full article:
http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/91726.html
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The week of the 14th - the 21st of August 2006, we are asking all ebay sellers to boycott eBay by not listing and not buying. If you have a store, spend the time culling & restructuring. If you don't have a store, just do it to support your fellow sellers. WE DO HAVE A VOICE---LETS BE HEARD!!!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!
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Someone just emailed me with this and the number....thought some of you just might like to forward it on...Hi - Don't lose hope! I filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission this afternoon. The operator said that if the FTC sees a pattern of complaints, investigators and attorneys will look into it. The number is 1-877-382-4357, and press 6 to get a human being more quickly. You can also complain online at
www.ftc.gov. Please pass this message on to AS MANY store owners as possible!
I pretty much took the summer off and closed both my stores then, was going to re-open for the Back to School and holidays sales but even before the fee hike was announced I relized that I don't need ebay and their fees.
I've been working on my own site for one of the ID's and the other I am considering selling the whole thing.
I honestly could care less if I never listed on ebay again. If the sellers who think they NEED ebay would wake up and know that its the other way around. eBay needs you the seller, they don't make money off the buyers, they make their money from the sellers. And if the sellers move on then so will the buyers.
I think google will be an important player here in the near future. I like having my eCater stores and I like having my items fed into froogle for me. I like typing in a search and finding my items in the top 5 pages. I didn't get that with ebay.
eBay could offer a free listing day right now and I wouldn't waste my time!
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A quote for the day:
Quote: I also know from comments left on a few posts after the fee increase announcement that sellers are furious.
eBay may look at these sellers and consider them to be a handful, harmless bunch, but sometimes it's the extreme voices that are heard loudest and have the most impact on events...
full article:
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2006/08/10...-the-ebay/
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Take THAT Meg!
The week of the 14th - the 21st of August 2006, we are asking all ebay sellers to boycott eBay by not listing and not buying. If you have a store, spend the time culling & restructuring. If you don't have a store, just do it to support your fellow sellers. WE DO HAVE A VOICE---LETS BE HEARD!!!!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!
Anyone who posts a reply on this thread, please include the above info so it is always on top.
Anyone lurking who has a forum that will allow them to post this info, please do so.
Press inquiries are welcomed @ press@belle-affaires.com
More coverage of the planned eBay UK strike. The Guardian is one of the top UK newspapers.
Quote:Auction site eBay, that stalwart of the online world, may be about to suffer a classic ailment of traditional business: a strike. It is not its staff that are preparing to down tools, however, it is its sellers.
A small but vocal number of British shop owners who use eBay.co.uk are preparing to strike on August 15 in protest at an increase in fees and a reduction in the visibility of their goods...
eBay Drop-off stores are expected to benefit from the fee hike:
Quote:The move is likely to increase the use by bricks and mortar shops of eBay auction specialists such as Stuff U Sell, which helps shop owners and individuals sell unwanted items on the site. David Brackin, co-founder of Stuff U Sell, said: "Traditional merchants who are considering using eBay as a channel for existing or old stock are increasingly coming to people like Stuff U Sell as the complexity, cost and hassle increases."
full article:
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1842930,00.html
Auctionbytes covers the Guardian article which covered the UK strike...
Quote:The success of such protests by users have been difficult to gauge, and eBay has never published the impact of past strikes. Sellers who rely on eBay income for a majority or all of their income may take a more long-term approach to dealing with the fee hikes. The significant fee hikes caught sellers by surprise just before the back-to-school shopping season, which leads into the holiday shopping season - a critical sales period for online merchants...
The fee hikes affected many international sites in addition to the US site, including UK, Australia and Italy. In Australia, a post protesting the fee increase stated, "If you disagree with the new Store Fees introduction and/or will be leaving eBay or closing your store due to these increases please sign your protest." The post received 3,470 replies ( http://forums.ebay.com.au/thread.jspa?th...=500024740 ).
full article:
http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m08/i14/s01
I guess I jumped the gun. My store is blanked out, since the evening of the 12th and will stay that way until I close it, after the strike ends.
OK, just ran across something on Seller Central and need you'se input...
"When they announced the fee increase, they also announced that the first 30 store listings would also show up in searches. My store sales are doing much better as a result."
Now, I did a search for a specific item that I know a competitor sells in Store. Sure enough, the 25th item down the listings, showed that item by that competitor and it was NOT an auction, just a Store Listing. I may be missing something here, other than the added money that eBay is fixin to boink (I really typed that, NOT F***)! me out of.
However, I seldom run auctions, though I intend to run more, once I have a website up. Having said that, IF these store listings are goin g to still show up, I may have to rethink closing my store.
What do you'se think?
On another note, please have a look at
http://stores.ebay.com/Trenz-Shirt-Compa...eZl2QQtZkm
Tell me why there is no ebay search in the upper right hand corner of his landing page?
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