The Inevitable Demise of eBay....

[pscolgrafs]

Ebay is not going anywhere. They really don't care about the pre-war people. It is a small fraction of their sales and every single time a new auction company threatens them, they crash and burn.

It's eBay's world. It has an invisible monopoly and we have to agree by their terms. I have a friend who has a 100% feedback and his dashboard is cluttered with high marks (around 4.9). He is called away and is late on one auction and his dashboard star for...Shipping...decreases to 4.6 and he gets eBay warnings when he logs in. Does that make sense?

That $9 shipper guy will get low stars and that same warning if he continues to be in the shipping business.

Nothing eBay does make sense and I HATE the fact that they didn't separate auctions from stores from the get go. The only people that like this are those who start everything off at $1 and hope to get a $1 for a ten Mike Scoscia First Day Covers or an autographed index card by Joe Pepitone.

[mintacular]

I don't see how anything that has happened to eBay is "inevitable". In fact, just the opposite....the title of this thread should have been the "evitable" demise of ebay :

[quinnsryche]

Unfortunately ebay is still the best option for purchasing items difficult to find elsewhere. Other than the big auction houses, who most normal collectors can't even afford the buyer's premium, a limited few decent web sites and the scant local show, where can the average collector add cards to his collection? There are hundreds of thousands of cards of every type available to all types and levels of collectors, that's pretty cool. This site is a great option, but you can't always get what you want here (I know, I've tried) and we're not only talking about rare or scarce stuff. I'm not sticking up for ebay or the way they run their business, I'm just pointing out that it is a viable option for a great many people (buying and selling).
Just my opinion, take it or leave it.