The Inevitable Demise of eBay....

[T206DK]

Ebay's demise was probably forseen by many of the more mature employees back in 2005-6. They don't work there anymore ! I think at that time the oldest person working in their customer service department was around 25-27 years old. The oldest person at the Utah location was 31 when my friend Steve worked there. They used to have an indoor basketball court inside the work premises, and a video game room for employees to hang out in.

[D. Bergin]

I wonder if people realize there's actually a Tab at the top of every search page that easily separates the Auction items from the Buy It Now items if you want.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

I wonder if people realize there's actually a Tab at the top of every search page that easily separates the Auction items from the Buy It Now items if you want.

Yep...never had to use it until recently. My search for "Nebraska Baseball" within the title and body of the auction used to bring up about 500 hits...now it's over 4,000...with the large majority of those being BIN's.

[T206DK]

here's another thing that's wrong with the new Ebay business model. My brother just got 2 positive feedback comments on his account and his rating actually driopped. Unbelievable !

[autograf]

Yep.....all my dozens of searches are now screwed up. Not a HUGE deal to separate auctions from BIN's but different. I'm slooooowwwwllllyyy getting used to it. I think eBay exists solely just to change crap when they really don't need to. They had a great business model and they just keep striking out while updating things that such a miniscule minority of people would even care about. I also think they have cow-towed to their legal department so much that the whole system is about useless. It's like they have malpractice insurance and they have to change EVERYTHING just to be compliant. Still tough to find somewhere else that has any real amount of the stuff we're looking for though.......

[JP]

The real problem with eBay is that they let auctions like this happen. No way does that person have that card....and no feedback in forever, so obviously a hijacked account!

[4815162342]

Well, he had a "smooth etopps transaction"!

[Boccabella]

eBay isn't going anywhere. While collectors of the type of material found in this forum have options, most of the rest of the collectors/dealers who handle less rare or more modern material simply don't.

For all of its "issues" and tweaks, eBay is still a very effective way for millions of average people to buy and sell. If eBay's "demise" is so imminent, who's replacing it? Whatever better models are out there have a LOT of work to do to get to their level.

And don't forget...if you take your cards off eBay, you also lose the periphery..that is, the eyes of people who may not be die-hard collectors but for one reason or another decide to bid on your item.

[JP]

Originally Posted by 4815162342

Well, he had a "smooth etopps transaction"!

Reported it and barely was able to fit this in under the limitation of characters in the description of complaint:

"If that seller can provide you with a picture of that card with today's newspaper, I'll eat my hat."