Oh! The irony of it.

[NoneOther]

Are e/b feeling the squeeze?




Hello xxxx xxxxxx,

Today, we would like to ask you, as one of our professional sellers doing business on the eBay marketplace, for your help in supporting a very important initiative. It is aimed at making sure we keep ecommerce as an engine of growth in Europe.

What is going on?
Some brands and manufacturers are attempting to limit the sale and resale of their products online. Increasingly, these brands and manufacturers prevent their authorised sellers from selling their products on online marketplaces such as eBay. These unilateral bans harm you as a seller, your customers, eBay and commerce as a whole.

What can you do?
Some sellers have founded 'Choice in eCommerce', an initiative which fights sales bans on online platforms. This initiative is inviting all business sellers to sign a petition. This petition will raise awareness of the problem amongst manufacturers, brand owners, online marketplaces, national and European policy-makers, as well as public authorities.

Sign the petition!
The petition can be found on the Choice in eCommerce's website at: Choice in eCommerce | Initiative for Choice and Innovation in Online-trade

We encourage you and all our sellers to support this initiative and sign this petition in order to promote fair and open online-trade.

We thank you for your interest and engagement!

Best regards,
The eBay Team

[tmastermind]

Ooohhh, not seen that in my inbox yet. Take it it came though the ebay messaging system?

[Ebayorbust]

Originally Posted by tmastermind

Ooohhh, not seen that in my inbox yet. Take it it came though the ebay messaging system?

It's been sent to all registered business users.

[GreenBean]

HaHaHa!

Multiple copies of tish.

[tmastermind]

Originally Posted by Ebayorbust

It's been sent to all registered business users.

Well my accounts a registered business account for many years and no email present!? Perhaps its in the works?

[NoneOther]

The sheer irony of how e/b has tried so hard to protect brand owners over the years is eventually coming back to bite them on the a**e.

Perhaps now they will realise their folly in trying to force out all the private sellers and little guys who helped them build the empire they have now in favour of all those big brand names who couldn't give a monkey's fart for e/b when the economic going gets tough.

I just love it!

[rsot]

You can only hope - sometimes (many times actually) with eB...these e-mails are just smoke and mirrors leading you to believe that something big is being done but, in truth, just written diarrhea