PeSA Statement on eBay

[mandy]

PeSA Official Statement on eBays Marketplace:
Deteriorating eBay Market Conditions Erode Seller Confidence

Members of the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance have been concerned with the vibrancy of the eBay marketplace for the past few years. In the first nine months of 2008, we have observed a substantial deterioration in the value of the marketplace for merchants. Broader e-commerce growth is in the high teens while eBay’s GMV has increased at low single digit rates; a clear sign that eBay is losing wallet share among online shoppers...

full statement: http://www.gopesa.org/news/index.cfm?pag...confidence

[sneakymagenta]

Perhaps it's a sign that by promoting special treatment for high-volume sellers from the very beginning of their existence, and shutting out smaller merchants from its organization until recently, PESA itself has played a major role in "unleveling the playing field" on eBay.

Or perhaps it's a sign that while nobody thought eBay was listening, in reality, they were listening all too closely - to a small group of PowerSellers who didn't represent the selling community at large. After all, in PESA's paper, just substitute "PESA members" for "big box retailers" and "advantaged" for "free," and PESA suddenly finds itself as disadvantaged as the thousands of smaller eBay merchants who have been feeling that way for years...

full article: http://auctionbytes.com/cab/cab/abn/y08/m10/i02/s01

[amy]

[quote author=sneakymagenta link=topic=18508.msg72744#msg72744 date=1223065867]

Perhaps it's a sign that by promoting special treatment for high-volume sellers from the very beginning of their existence, and shutting out smaller merchants from its organization until recently, PESA itself has played a major role in "unleveling the playing field" on eBay.

Or perhaps it's a sign that while nobody thought eBay was listening, in reality, they were listening all too closely - to a small group of PowerSellers who didn't represent the selling community at large. After all, in PESA's paper, just substitute "PESA members" for "big box retailers" and "advantaged" for "free," and PESA suddenly finds itself as disadvantaged as the thousands of smaller eBay merchants who have been feeling that way for years...

full article: http://auctionbytes.com/cab/cab/abn/y08/m10/i02/s01
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If their egos hadn't been so big PeSA would have realized that they were relatively small merchants and that their demands for an unlevel playing field would ultimately come back to bite them in the ass. They were warned on both TT and OTWA 3 years ago during the Ethical Tools debate that "the big box retailers" not PeSA members would be the ultimate winners if eBay granted the PeSAshi.tes their wish and unleveled the playing field.