Originally Posted by
hotandvintage
Look at it this way, the only thing ebay care about is the share holders. Now ebay are saying the small seller experianece and auctions are dead. This has been their mantra for a long time, since they worked out that they make most of their profits from the top twenty percent of sellers.
So lets say they just shut off auctions and made a cap over the next month, so that if a seller does not reach that amount of money or that amount of sales then they are gone.
They would have to loose around sixty percent of their market or even more in one month,
So even if you ignored the fact that they would suddenly have a massive drop in profit, which they would have to explain to the share holders,they would also have to consider where those sellers would go.
So lets say those sellers all came over to ebid, and began doing successfully what ebad had said was dead, and then a lot of their bigger sellers also start listing on ebid. The company would have a hell of a lot to explain to their share holders and would have another alternative that they had to try and compete against.
They do it the way they are doing it with trickle release and miss information.
A lot of sellers will just fade off and give up.
Others will be fragmented into sites that are slowly being eroded by the missinformation, so that by time there are enough sellers floating around to make a site big enough for competiton, the site is looked at in a way that makes them no threat to ebad.