eBay sellers strike extended yet again

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 26 February 2008 05:46

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The MySpace 'Boyott eBay' page lists another big issue that sellers have with eBay:

“2. Revamp the Feedback System. The system has been broke for a long time. However, the changes ebay is planning is wrong. Sellers have the right to leave negative feedback. There are concerns over retaliatory feedback. This is NOT the way to fix that. Losing what ebay considers "irrelevant" feedback is not a correct way to revamp the feedback system. We demand that ebay return to the way it was, but, continue to find ways that will fix the crippled system. Not find ways to annihilate it completely”.

The original boycott was scheduled for February 18 to 25, but now the boycott is being extended to March 9th, according to an article at Indybay.

For more information, type ‘eBay boycott’ into your favourite search engine. The boycott looks like it will continue for some time yet, although some sellers say they are feeling the pinch and are listing a few, but not all, of their items.

Sellers also talk of listing at other auction sites, with some complaining that the competing sites simply don’t have eBay’s traffic. eBay can certainly afford to ride out the boycott for quite some time to come, so the ultimate resolution to this crisis is still unclear.

It would seem that eBay have made decisions without widely consulting their members, or taken into account their feedback, and now find themselves the subject of a boycott.

One thing is certain: few people are ever in favour of a price rise, unless they are the beneficiary of the higher prices.