The only downside is that it only works for shops and listings on the eBay.com website

.com is for USA sites (Australia etc) SUE.

USA has the largest marketplace on earth for eBay, so it pays to list on there (product depending of course).

Constant removal of visibility will both decrease sales for the seller and increase costs of sales for the seller (in the attempt to regain the lost sales) which of course equals disaster.

Your points on adapting until the point of quitting are quite correct in my opinion, but then so are the views of Mr Sceptic when he says that ultimately when the larger sellers take your view of quitting they will take the traffic with them and sales for everyone will drop.

I agree Mr Sceptic, remove your foundations and the rest will fall…

As for the future of eBay, I see a very different type of eBay shop but it’s a long way off becoming a reality

The other group will, every time eBay make a major site change, will bluster and fume about how eBay are only out for their own profit and don’t care about sellers and so on and so on and so on. These people put a lot of energy into hating eBay, posting on eBay message boards and other forums about how awful eBay are. As I think I’ve said before, what a waste of their time and energy that is. Why on earth do they not do something positive with it?

Over, and out.

“Now by removing the vis, seller X now has to list on .com in addition to .co.uk just to maintain their 20 sales per 100, …GET IT?”

Loud & clear. But my sales strategy does not match that of Seller X, so I couldn’t care less. And since the staggeringly overwhelming majority of eBay sellers don’t match seller x’s strategy either, what with not even being pro sellers & everything, they don’t care either.

What’s that I hear? ‘Ah, but they’ll get you next?’ I’ll adapt to any changes which affect me to the best of my ability. If I can’t adapt successfully, I’ll do something else, without complaint.

“Please read my postings more carefully, you’re only embarrassing yourself.” – Schopenhauer would be proud. He recommends (with irony) the use of insults when logic doesn’t stand up.

What the heck any of this has to do with a new tool for blogs I have totally forgotten…

And by the by, if your STR really is 20/100, eBay’s almost certainly not a workable model for you anyway.

I’d also like to know why anyone would assume that eBay’s loyalty should be to sellers. BS. eBay’s first loyalty should and always will be to themselves and their shareholders. Just because *you*, one little seller, don’t like what they’ve done, doesn’t mean they should change it. You don’t take any notice when your customers tell you how to run your business, do you? So why would you expect eBay to take notice when you try to tell them what’s good for them?

My calculations mean’t to state doubling efforts to achieve the same 20 sales (not 20 sales per 100). Just before it is pulled up….

Ta very much,

Hey…I’m putting the kettle on, anyone for Cha?

OK, you still don’t understand properly do you…

They are not helping YOU increase sales, they are merely forcing sales for themselves. By sales for eBay I of course refer to listings. Consider that every listing is a sale for eBay as it raises revenue for them. This is very different to actual product sales for you and I. In the old system prior to the .co.uk vis disaster, eBay would get paid from seller X to list 100 items and then collect FV fees on what they sold (lets assume Pareto’s 20/80 rule here and give seller X 20 sales per 100).

Now by removing the vis, seller X now has to list on .com in addition to .co.uk just to maintain their 20 sales per 100, but they have to do this by doubling their effects (2 x 100 listings). In this case eBay now collects fees from 2x the listing and the FV fees on what is sold. GET IT? They are better off, we are worse off.

However, you may well ask surely one would now receive 40 sales per 200 if applying Pareto’s law right? Well no, as you market has effectively split. Before you were obtaining 20% from the whole market for 100 items listed and you are having to deal with split markets. For the above to be true it would have to assume that your sales are split 50/50 between the different markets (.com and .co.uk) which invariably they are not. So there.

Please read my postings more carefully, you’re only embarrassing yourself – lol (sorry, just joking).

Question: Is this forum only for eBay lovers then, are we not allowed to take their name in vein? I say this to save eBay from themselves you know….lol

Message to Sue: I have had the pleasure of reading just one Dan Brown Novel and have no desire to read the rest thank you… my reading list involves mainly textbooks and books from authors of a business nature (along with the financial periodicals etc). Oh, I also read HEAT magazine (who doesn’t !!!).

Like so many I have the (dis)pleasure of working for myself and as such am I very driven character, if you knew me personally Uncle Sammy you would know that I would never work for a bus company (as great as being a bus conductor would be), I would set about owing it.

I turn to you Mr Chris Dawson, a published author and professional eBay type dude to comment on the future direction of said platform, its past policy decisions and the growing concerns of the educated masses at large that fear the company has/is out growing the business model and is therefore now reactionary in nature as opposed to pro-action.

I still don’t feel any love yet…

One plus point. Telephone help service is extended to Silver Sellers (Power) now of course, which I am told is most welcome. SO, WELL DONE eBAY. Where’s my bill for that one !!!! – hehehehehehehehe

Damn them for helping me sell more! Curse their wicked scheme to increase my income!

And they’re not forcing anyone to do anything. If you don’t want to sell on eBay, then go elsewhere. If you don’t wat to sell there either, you can always become a bus conductor or something.