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Tough Road Ahead For eBay As It Battles Increased Competition
Forbes ^ | 09/25/15 | Forbes

Posted on 09/25/2015 3:38:23 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo

eBay, one of the leading players in the global e-commerce market, is expected to face a tough road ahead after the recent spin-off of its payments business. In our valuation model, we forecast the company to lose market share in the global B2C e-commerce market, which was valued at over $1.5 trillion in 2015, over our forecast horizon. This is as the company is seeing dramatic increase in competition, from both e-commerce giants such as Amazon and Alibaba, as well as from upcoming players such as Jet.com.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ebay
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To: RckyRaCoCo
Been on eBay for a very very long time, but wasn't really actively selling until June this year. It has been an incredible journey, with mostly frustration.

Their blanket ‘end the auction and assign a strike’ when they receive a copyright complaint hasn't been something I've seen since Garth Brooks was going after every used seller of his CDs. Get a couple of those complaints in six months, all your auctions immediately end - oh, sure, you can get them to lift the block, but all those auctions you launched are gone.

The required 14 day return policy (else you'll pay higher fees) is inane in the media category, even more inane expanding it to 60 days coming up next February. The fees continue to rise, and to cut your rates, you get to pay them a monthly fee which is repaid in fixed fee listings for free - pretty useless if you're doing almost all auctions.

And the buyer is always right policy is frustrating in the extreme. Got a delivery confirmation on an item? All the customer has to say is ‘Well, I never got it’ and bingo, paypal dips into your account and robs you.

It is really extraordinary how the people who pay all the fees are offered the worst customer service. And if I could find a media auction site that could support any type of volume, I'd be there in an instant.

Otherwise, I'd get to spend hours each day trying to figure out the prices of some extremely rare CDs, many of which have never been pictured on the internet, much less offered for sale to go with eBay's commitment to end the auction business.

21 posted on 09/25/2015 4:09:04 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Oberon

Yes indeed. eBay has an apparently quite long list of merchandise it refuses to let people sell Most of this is very poor business management


22 posted on 09/25/2015 4:10:44 PM PDT by faithhopecharity
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Liberals/Progressives run Wall Street mostly these days. They ruin governments and ruin businesses too.

When ebay decided to go hard in punishing their sellers for ebay leadership’s failed policies, they run a lot of good sellers off. One thing about ebay is it was kind of it’s own economic eco-system of sellers selling and using the funds to buy on ebay.

The libtard dolts running the company(remember, they are in the libtard Sillycon Valley) that ruined ebay didn’t bother to figure out good sellers were also good buyers. They always treated them as different entities and for many users, it was not. Ebay was another libtard failure arrogantly thinking they could force their market to their will.

CGato


23 posted on 09/25/2015 4:12:21 PM PDT by Conservative Gato
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To: kingu
A few years back I bought a used Dave Mathews Band concert T-shirt at a thrift store. Listed it on Ebay and the little jerk reported me as selling knock off shirts. I was let off with a "warning."
24 posted on 09/25/2015 4:12:39 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Studies show that some people say experts agree!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I sell high ticket items on ebay, wish there was a way to limit flakes who bid on items that have no intention of buying them, they just like to bid up an item as if it was a game.


25 posted on 09/25/2015 4:13:37 PM PDT by eastforker (Cruz for steam in 2016)
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To: 4yearlurker

Before the requirement for paypal payment, I bought literally 100’s of things on eBay.. Afterwards.... zilch. Me and many others resented being told what terms and form my good hard cash should be.in


26 posted on 09/25/2015 4:17:29 PM PDT by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: VanDeKoik

Any other site alternatives. . .do not want to use FaceBook.


27 posted on 09/25/2015 4:25:46 PM PDT by Maudeen (Sinner Saved by Grace)
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To: eastforker

Flakes and deadbeats burn me to no end.

I realize things happen and if someone asks to be let out with decent sob story, I generally let it go. There may have been 2 or 3 in all the years I’ve been on Ebay.

One that did irk me was a flori-duh idiot who promised every few days a cashier’s check in the mail. After a few weeks I gave up. It was for a ragged old Blazer that I really didn’t plan to do much with. I’ve decided to keep it and use as a tractor.

An AOL address filter would be nice too. Just about anyone I’ve had a problem with 9 out of 10 times had AOL. There have only been a handful of minor problems ever.


28 posted on 09/25/2015 4:35:45 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: eastforker
My first attempt at a somewhat big ticket item(laptop)was years ago...remember had to relist about 4 times when folks were trying to steal it. Typical email from "buyer"...

"I send box, you put laptop in, I pay later, make sad sister happy, good you happy?"

29 posted on 09/25/2015 4:42:51 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
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To: Maudeen

Most of the people I know that are serious sellers either do Amazon or Etsy for vintage items. A few others sell big items on Craigslist and sometimes turn over stuff they bought that morning for a good profit.


30 posted on 09/25/2015 4:44:55 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: wally_bert; RckyRaCoCo

My big ticket item are in the $2k -$10K range,heavy machinery, idiots bid on them with no idea how they would ship or how they operate.


31 posted on 09/25/2015 4:47:02 PM PDT by eastforker (Cruz for steam in 2016)
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To: eastforker
...maybe I should have returned scammer email with...

"you put sad sister in box, I pay later, all happy, good?"

32 posted on 09/25/2015 4:48:30 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
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To: eastforker

Any CNC machinery?


33 posted on 09/25/2015 4:49:36 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
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To: RckyRaCoCo

No, mostly earth movers or forklifts.


34 posted on 09/25/2015 4:52:29 PM PDT by eastforker (Cruz for steam in 2016)
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To: dennisw

Yeah same here. I love Amazon’s return policy and the fact that they accidentally gave me a Prime membership doesn’t hurt on shipping either.

Super fast delivery on items for Prime members. Almost unbelievable.


35 posted on 09/25/2015 5:03:41 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

I’ve been taken too many times on Ebay/Paypal. I simply will not go back.

Now buy from Amazon, never been taken by their sellers yet. They let me pay with a credit card. It’s just too simple and quick to buy from them. Just no hassles.


36 posted on 09/25/2015 5:09:45 PM PDT by redfreedom (All it takes for evil to win is for good people to do nothing - that's how the left took over.)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

I got a good used Breville from ebay last year for 65$. Breville juicers get good ratings at Amazon

I got this one last year>>>>>>
Breville Juice Fountain Juicer JE95XL
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Breville-Juice-Fountain-Juicer-JE95XL-/381410138277?hash=item58cdd0d8a5

I try to buy from a seller who has not used it much. The JE98XL is a newer edition of the JE95XL


37 posted on 09/25/2015 5:17:40 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Breville juicer is very high speed and has a wide mouth. There are a few different models including a compact one


38 posted on 09/25/2015 5:19:39 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw

Thanks for the information. The thrift place had a L’Equip(?), and a few other lower value/brand name ones. I watched that video posted by that guy from Australia(juicing diet/cleanse)...got to thinking I might give it a try.


39 posted on 09/25/2015 5:37:03 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
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To: eastforker

I used to help my dad and uncle in that years ago when things were good.

That died out partly due to what you ran into. I got tired of being some kind of shipping broker and dealing with stupid people.

If I can’t put it in a box, I’m generally not interested in dealing with it. It would have to be a special case.

Here is the old bucket in question that the AOL-idiot jammed me on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha4qBpPqBJI


40 posted on 09/25/2015 6:52:35 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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