Ebay retractions

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by CaramelMan

there is no other way to explain the changes they have made over the last year or so...everything to make it easier to schill bid.

the more schill, the more the ending price, the more money for ebay, the more money for stockholders.

good for stockholders means they will continue to look the other way..in fact, they seem to ENCOURAGE IT!

Problem is, that's short term thinking on Ebay's part. Letting it run rampant destroys bidder confidence, as witnessed on these boards, prices actually come down and Ebay makes less money.

All they have to do is limit retractions to something reasonable like 3 or 4 times a year, and the problem is solved...................but then they will have to field tons of calls from serial offenders "Oh, I really, really, really didn't want to bid on this item, can you please get rid of it, I know I'm over my limit"..............and Ebay doesn't want to hire the two extra phone reps they would need to deal with that.

Low overhead, high margins. That's all they really care about at this point.