07-03-2007, 07:45 AM
Quote:A friend, who is also an eBay PowerSeller, has been telling me for a while that eBay is "broken." Broken is a pretty abstract term when you're talking about a site as large and as complex as eBay. To my friend, it's not that abstract. Broken means that sales aren't good, and haven't been good for some time.
Being a seller's publication, AuctionBytes hears hundreds of anecdotal stories like this, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to believe that the problem lies entirely with these merchants. It's not easy to put a finger on what's really going on in this industry, but here's what got me thinking that my friend might possibly have a point - a plateau in the number of AuctionBytes subscribers over the past 2 years. The overwhelming reason given for unsubscribing? "I'm no longer selling on eBay."...
full article: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y07/m07/i02/s00
related: http://blog.auctionbytes.com/cgi-bin/blo...05069.html