If you bring nothing but the common to the table is eBay to blame when you fail?

[sneakymagenta]

Idiocy from PSU:

If you would come off the high PEDASTAL that you place yourself upon and accept the reality that most of the Online Sellers have no eCommerce Sales knowledge, or common html skills to build a site like the mighty 'COHIBA', you might also understand why feebay is in part responsible for their present financial condition. I guess every Mom & Pop in the country should have known to diversify, and have your exceptional business skills to remain a seller on the site. Rolling Eyes Reality Check: That is not the case, many are just common people with enough sense to list an auction, transfer funds, and ship to a given address.

They taught people how to depend on them in every way possible. (That was back when they were still considered customers.) Why would anyone even suspect they would do what they are doing now!!

IMO, it is feebay's fault to a great extent. They advertised their venue as the easiest place to list and sell your wares.......

http://www.powersellersunite.com/post-20...tml#208395

the cold hard realities of running a business:
1. if you have "no eCommerce Sales knowledge" and don't know how to run a business it is your responsibility to acquire the necessary skills and if you don't you have no one to blame but yourself when your business fails.
2. if you don't know that relying on one vendor or venue for your survival is suicidal then you have no one to blame but yourself when your failure to diversify sneaks up and bites you in the ass and you're forced to move to a rusty old van down by the river.
3. if all you bring to the table is "common" or "average" then your competitors will eat you alive and your business most likely will be among the 95% who fail.
4. If you make business decisions based on a 3rd party's advertising or PR pitches ("easiest place to buy and sell", "they touted the trust and safety of their venue over others" ) then you are a moron and doomed to fail.
5. if you don't have the business sense to adapt your business model to changing market conditions then the blame for your failure rests entirely on you.
6. A business that is run by a dependent sheep-like owner ("they taught people to depend on them") is 1,000,000X more likely to fail than a business run by an owner who is an independently thinking trailblazer.
7. fact: 95% of small businesses fail within their first five years and the blame for their failure rests almost entirely on the moron owners who made mistakes 1,2,3,4,5,6.

[maggie777]

the cold hard realities of running a business:

But I thought a friendly community and fun were the keys to ecommerce success??? 


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[amy]

#1 and 5 on that list (closely followed by #3) are probably the main reasons why eBay sellers who were once "successful" fail.  Increased competition means you can no longer get by without knowing how to run a business (or without being willing to learn) or without offering something that differentiates you from the competition.  Failing to adapt to a changing marketplace will kill you in any business (FYI 'adapting' doesn't mean moving from eBay to rinky dink site A,B, C and continuing to do business the same way you were in 2003 and making the same mistakes you were making on eBay as many sellers do).

[bargainbloodhound]

#1 and 5 on that list (closely followed by #3) are probably the main reasons why eBay sellers who were once "successful" fail.

I'll vote for number 5.