This is a post I made to NSFGE after Phil Edwards posted a link to
this news article at auctionbytes:
http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m07/i26/s01
when reading this article all I could feel was insulted, even though
I have boycotted eBay as a seller for almost 2 years.
Here's my take on the conversation between ebay and frustrated sellers:
Seller #1: ebay is only making it harder for me to benefit from
selling on their site
FleaBay: Blah, Blah, Blah
Seller #2: Why shouldn't I be able to create listings on FleaBay's
site and have confidence that I won't be traeeted like a fool
FleaBay: Blah, Blah, Blah
Seller #3: All I'm trying to do is make a living
FleaBay: Blah, Blah, Blah
Seller #4: I closed my movie poster & comic book store in 2001
because I thought FleaBay had created the ultimate "Low-Rent" storefront for me
FleaBay: Blah, Blah, Blah
Seller #5: First FleaBay had me make auctions, then Fleabay offers me
a store, now it appears they only did this so they could raise my
fees, which ultimately are higher cost for FleaBay store items after
sale than auctions
FleaBay: Blah, Blah, Blah
Seller #5: When will I be able to find security in the FleaBay site
to believe that I'm not being taken advantage of as a seller ??
FleaBay: Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah
"Former" seller #21,436 (okay that's me): thankfully I have seen this
in other forums. For one thing how San Diego ComicCon's current
leaders screwed me when they took away my front & center location of
12 years and my top seniority as a longtime exhibitor (25years), so
that they could transfer my location to big corporate interests. I
told my friends many months ago that FleaBay would be raising their
store fees because I didn't think they realized how much they had
driven away from their auction format to a set sale format.
I knew that it had to be impacting FleaBay's bottom line, and now for
anyone who heard me back then is shaking thei heads because they
really didn't believe it was going to happen.
I stopped selling on FleaBay when (first) they felt my paypal logo
was 3 pixels too large, then (second) my visa logo was 3 pixels too
large in 2 of 377 auctions - so they ended all 377 auctions and then
(third) when they cancelled $22,000 in bids and suspended my account
because someone said I was selling forged autographs and without any
contact from Fleabay they just cancelled those bids..
That was enough for me. I may spend money there and unfortunately
Fleabay does therefore get some of my money, however a small
percentage it might have been. But for a power seller to have been
traeted so shoddily was just unacceptable to me, and as a person with
principles - I just couldn't bring myself to give Fleabay a direct
benefit anymore, or I would have just felt like a Fleabay whore.
FleaBay's response to any criticisms:
Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah,
Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah,
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Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah
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