eBay Having Problems..

[aspkin]

FORTUNE: Tech Daily eBay: Not yet out of the woods «

In the last five quarters, eBay has seen a steady decline of user activity. Both the percentage of confirmed registered users and active users has declined over the year-ago quarter. While eBay’s promotion on lower insertion fees is expected to boost gross merchandise sales for the fourth quarter, it doesn’t mean buyer demand will last once the holiday spending spree ends.

“They’re not out of the woods yet. There’s no question that they have had a harder time to generate demand,” says Tim Boyd, an analyst with American Technology Research. “There are a lot of issues that still need to be resolved, like the growth of new buyers. There is only so much money you can squeeze out of the American market before you have to find new ones.”

[Chris Hanson]

Yep, and I noticed their stock is falling again

[rapunzel_01]

HEH, they keep banning honest to good people yeah why not decline our profits.....

[vers0]

Maybe they will lighten up with banning people. They are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They can't ignore the Veros but buy banning them, they are losing revenue. If you look at eBay, there is so much asian replicas being sold each day. I think the Tiffany incident really changed a lot of this.

[rapunzel_01]

true dhat why get rid of good ebayers with good feedback history, legit sellers, never done anything wrong...damn I wish I could get back my rapunzel_01 account only 2 negs from that well 3 cause the person thought I didnt send the item...damn.

[Chris Hanson]

Originally Posted by Modee

They cannot ever allow ⊗⊗⊗⊗ to be sold. That is flat out illegal.

But their system should stop banning people who are selling legitimate merchandise, and have good feedback, for any reason. They need to get rid of this concept of "high risk or unusual activity." If the goods are genuine, then allow them to be sold.

yeah but the question is --> how do you know or can tell that the good are genuine?

[vers0]

I think the only way to prove that your items are genuine is to include a receipt or invoice in the picture. I have read the people are using photo software to create this information. People can be creative when they have to be. The only thing I can see working is if eBay requires some proof that you obtained your items in a legal way. I think this is a difficult thing for eBay to do and thats why some innocent people are getting suspended.

Modee, I agree with you that most people on here probably got suspended for selling things they are not suppose too. I'm sure there are some innocent people on here. I did create one account and was suspended for selling school books to fast. I listed 10 in the first day and got suspended.

[Chris Hanson]

You wouldnt get suspended for listing 10 schoolbooks , it had to be something else

[ebayhateluv]

Sometimes Under that VERO umbrella, is also the "Encouraging" rule. I recd approx 8-10 warning for this. AT first, I thought it was a fluke. So, you can buy a Vintage Rolex Case/Box for say $48, then relist it, with the Proper verbage, background, add a Chronograph seal, include the Montres info on the rear, now its a $150-$200 box. BUt, its encouraging... ebay says encouraging others to place a ⊗⊗⊗⊗ inside. It wasnt encouraging when ebay collected the listing & final value fees from the person i bought it from...So, then I feel now even attempting to buy + resell these Vero type items leads to hassles...