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Posted By: Glen V

One problem with a boycott is that it will mostly hurt legitimate sellers that didn’t hear about it. Ebay probably won’t be fazed – what percentage of Ebay’s auctions do pre-30 baseball cards represent?

If a boycott does take place, it must be big and last a while. Ebay (everyone) can check bidders history. Tbob – you’ve bid on 400+ items the last 30 days – Ebay has to assume that Eagle hasn’t stopped you from using their site. A boycott would have to last 30 days to get people’s bid history down to 0. Also it would have to get other sectors involved – stamp collectors have similar problems – maybe they would take part?

Big news stories or legal actions would have a better result. Still, Ebay is just an auction web site. Anyone can set up one. If a better version was out there, people would leave Ebay. Maybe PSA or SGC could get into the auction business?