Either take the heat or get out of the kitchen.
Even when I was shipping 100+ items a day in 2000 only 20-25% left feedback and the ones that do leave FB they are more likely to be the ones not satisfied. And back then most buyers had half a brain, except for the electronics buyers that do not read the auctions for the specs and terms, fry the motherboard or drop the camera and want a free replacement or try to swap out their old dead motherboard for the new one you sent them.
Their policy is very smart for them and their agenda, even brilliant I might say. For sellers, buyers and affiliates the policy is terrible. But when was the last time you saw ebay care about what their sellers, buyers, affiliates or shareholders thought? Read on.
In my way of thinking Ebay execs have been shorting ebay since fall of last year (heck, most likely since late 2004) via their offshore holding companies and have made an absolute fortune by destroying ebay with their crackhead "new policies". Last fall was when a lot of these "new changes for the better" started hitting hard for sellers and affiliates.
It must have been nice when ebay took their affiliate program in house and you saw your reported earnings drop 50% from 30K a month down to 15K a month. All emails to ebay unanswered and if you did manage to receive a reply it was "business is slow, that's why your earnings dropped in half, it has nothing to do with our home made mickey mouse tracking system" Keep on sending us 500K of clicks a month and if you are lucky we will not can your account because your traffic is not "engaging" enough.
If I wanted to make a fortune I'd short a company then do everything in my power to confuse buyers, sellers and affiliates and run that biz into the ground all the while every time the stock drops a point I make a cool $1-2 million. Why on earth would I want to make ebay better? My job would be to make it worse!
Then when it hit rock bottom I would buy up all the shares I could and ride it back up if that walmart/k-mart/best buy/amazon wannabe frankenstein model of a site ever takes hold.
~HOE
It really helps a lot to tell buyers a 4 rating is "Good" Get 5 or 10 or 20 "good" ratings and it's Sayonara Sucker! Here's ebay with their short selling strategy and idiotic crackhead policies Here's Amazon with their strength, innovation and strong support to sellers
Last edited by HairyOldEbayer; 08-26-2008 at 11:47 AM.
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