Successful sellers' strike? by Barbora Misakova

When you monitor what is happening and how are some stories developing, you can see how one thing can influence another and that another. It is probably one month ago when I read about eBay and some innovations they were preparing. Analysts and some users that time claimed it was not a good step from eBay and it will have a big impact on its sales and number of users. eBay didn't listen and now it looks analyst were right. This online auction and shopping website has probably a big problems with those super innovations they applied - their auction listing dropped and thousands of sellers are protesting. Ebay adopted some changes which disadvantage especially sellers & they changed its fees for putting new items on the eBay web site and also prevent to sellers comment back to the buyers for fear of negative comments. Some analysts believe that strike which started Feb. 18 caused the drop in auction listing about 13 percent; the others just say that drop of selling items doesn't have to be connected with strike. If the drop is or not caused by this strike isn't as important as the fact that big number of sellers already ended their sales on eBay and go to other auction web sites such as iOffer or Amazon. While eBay argues about the results of statistics and claims that third-party statistics shows the boycott has had no impact on its listings, still more sellers are decided never come back to eBay. One of them, Nancy Baughman even said that if eBay's listings total "falls below 12 million, we have made a pretty good impact." Till eBay admits strikers are in right and have a power to cause serious problems to its online auctioning it can be already late. Valerie Lennert who belongs to boycott organizers spread her message in a anti-eBay video she put on youtube. And it seems it works & video has been viewed 140,000 times. The protestors try ever possible way to show their dissatisfaction with the eBay steps and so the created also a page on MySpace. I don't know what about you, but I am really curious how this all will end up.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20080225/tc_usatoday/onlineauctionlistingsdown13inboycottofebay;_ylt=Altl8UuZXYD84ii79CM0AOus0NUE

by Barbora Misakova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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