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Have you heard of the Boycott?
Yes
75%
 75%  [ 3 ]
No
25%
 25%  [ 1 ]
Total Votes : 4

The boycott against ebay 18 feb to the 25 feb 
Post: #1   PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:29 am Reply with quote
menotknow
Joined: 23 Feb 2008
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No mention of the boycot (18 feb to the 25 feb) on here yet that is being held by a growing number of sellers and buyers on eBay, due to the recent changes by eBay.

Most of it stems around the power sellers unite website

http://www.powersellersunite.com/

One point that should be of interest to Auction lotwatch is that a lot of them are defecting to the growing number of alternative auction sites, but they need a good search engine that can keep the community but no longer give the power to a single auction site.
A great opportunity for a company that can supply it

Anyway I am supporting the boycot that may be extended another six days, and then another so anyone tired of the treatment of eBay and I suppose now paypal should check it out. If nothing else the other auctions are growing in numbers.

I would like to know if you have heard about it so if you could complete the poll I would be greatful
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Post: #2   PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:14 pm Reply with quote
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I've heard about the boycott and I think most people active in the online auction world as sellers have. But although I can understand the anger that people feel, I don't personally think the boycott is the answer. In recent years eBay has never seemed to be very responsive to its members views and recently, in things such as search results and the latest changes, it has given the impression of being a headless chicken running around in circles, not knowing which way to go. Probably Meg Whatshername got out at the right time and I suspect she is busy exercising her share options and cashing in before the shares slide down. Her successor who described the site's front page with the memorable words "that it looks like a flea auction" doesn't seem to have a clue either.

The energy being spent on boycotting the site would imho be better spent dumping eBay for good and listing on alternative venues. There are plenty of choices. One worth considering is Amazon Marketplace where an awful lot of selling activity goes on. For general run of the mill items, in the UK, you have eBid and Tazbar, both worth considering and both having many sellers from the US and elsewhere. Also worth a consideration are small but growing sites like Auctions Worldwide & GB Auctions (run by the same person). For collectible items, wherever in the world you are, there are Delcampe and Specialist Auctions. An awful lot of stuff sells on both those. My own experience, as a small seller and buyer, is mainly with the latter but I have found it a successful venue for selling to people all over the place. It seems many buyers come there through Google searches. And I think that is the way of the future, people won't go to eBay to search for what they want but will use third parties. And of course one shouldn't forget that Auction Lotwatch itself, on its main site, has an excellent item search facility which you can tailor to the sites that interest you. I hope a few more choices will be added as potentially it is a more focussed tool than Google. There are also sites such as play.com which offers a selling platform. Never have there been more viable alternatives!

So to sum up, instead of understandably moaning at eBay and doing a self-harming boycott, people would do better to vote with their feet. eBay isn't going to keel over and die but my personal view is it will shrink over time (in the UK eBay Express is to be killed off) and probably in a year or two it will be taken over by an equally greedy corporate giant who will find further ways of extracting the maximum cash from its sellers.
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Post: #3   PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:16 am Reply with quote
menotknow
Joined: 23 Feb 2008
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Location: UK

 
yeah I just added the search engine as a search alternative on the PSU site.

I totally agree with the third party, by the way things are going, most do not want to move to one site, the only real problem they seem to be afraid of is loosing the customers they could draw into one place on eBay. A way to search them all is the answer with a site that updates the number of sites frequently and can also offer international searches if requested.

Looking at the great search they have here and the stresses that it must have on the database, with each search. Multiply that a dozen times as it is called to search deeper and with the veriations people expect. Then the numbers involved searching, then the growing number of sites not including the specialist sites. How many companies could acctually deliver a search engine or engines to cover what will be needed . So not sure where it will go. I suspect it will be a case of flooding back to eBay but hopefully not.

They are adding on another six days to it by the way, the boycott that is.

Thanks for the response
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Post: #4   PostPosted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:56 am Reply with quote
mompessons
Joined: 01 Mar 2008
Posts: 5

 
Hello,

Until reading becoming a member of this forum and reading the posts, I never knew there were so many other auction sites.

If people are complaining so much about eBay, their customer service and fees, then why continue to use eBay? Mad Yes I understand more traffic flows through eBay, but there is no reason why you can't have an account with another site at the same time. Laughing This is exactly what I am going to do. Then when I sell something on eBay, in my winning bidder notification email, I will tell them about my account on the other site. Maybe even have your prices slightly lower on the other site too as your fees will not be so high to try to encourage your customers to buy from you on the non eBay site instead. Wink

I have one question regarding this thread and the message above though? Please can someone explain what the PSU site is please? Embarassed

Many thanks,

Marc.
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Post: #5   PostPosted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:02 pm Reply with quote
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Hi Marc

PSU stands for Power Sellers Unite. As the name suggests it was started by eBay Power Sellers (the ghastly expression eBay uses to describe large sellers on their sites) as a means of communicating their concerns & experiences to each other about eBay. They had found, as have others, that threads on the eBay forum which were too critical about eBay were liable to be pulled completely. So this site being uncontrolled by eBay didn't face this problem. Since it was started it has developed further into embracing the merits and otherwise of other auction sites. Personally I have reservations about PSU. Some forceful individuals have used it as a means of carrying out some pretty savage hatchet jobs on certain sites they have fallen out with, which is a pity in my view and one of several reasons why I keep well away from it.

Another site worth visiting is Pheebay. Again this is nothing to do directly with eBay. It is quite tightly monitored to avoid it turning into another PSU and all the better for it, in my view. As you might expect, because the people referred to in the previous paragraph couldn't repeat their behaviour on Pheebay, PSU now has a kind of mini-feud going on with Pheebay (which is not being reciprocated I'm glad to say). All very childish and doesn't help anyone at the end of the day.

Best of luck with your endeavours. As long as you don't mind leaving items on sites for a while, you should do well on the better of the non-eBay sites. All the better ones have experienced a bit of a jump recently thanks to the changes at eBay.
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Post: #6   PostPosted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:44 am Reply with quote
jabo
Joined: 11 Mar 2008
Posts: 14

 
Hello..
I haven't heard of the boycott just yet...
what's it about? what is it for??
thanks
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