dpd1 - 10:58 pm on Jul 29, 2009 (gmt 0)

Not to put down people who run businesses on eBay... Whatever works for you. But personally, I can't imagine why somebody would want to have some overseer like eBay telling you what you can and can't do with your own business everyday, when you can just have your own site and do whatever you want. I suppose you're gaining some exposure, but that's not hard to do on your own, and dealing with them and all their rules seems to be a big price to pay for some exposure. Just the feedback system alone is enough to keep me away. And no, I don't have anything to hide. But why risk having some nut sink your whole reputation.

To me they just don't get it at eBay. The original model was to have a place for people to sell one-off items, either personal or semi professional. But either way it was supposed to be individual sales of one-off items. Then they got greedy and wanted to turn it into a quasi eCommerce site as well, with "buy it now" and all that. You can't do both... You can't be a sales site AND an auction site. In the end, the decent customers got sick of going on eBay and having to sift through all the hard sell BS and $19.95 garbage to find the decent stuff. So now they decide that the best thing to do is cater even more to the hard sell $19.95 crowd... Makes no sense.