Google Auctions to Rival eBay and Yahoo?
Google is reportedly sending 600 workers in engineering and support to a new location in the Phoenix area which is the center of a new Google complex in Arizona. The site has not been established yet, but Google announced their plans on Arizona expansion at an event hosted at the State Capitol yesterday.
BizJournals reports that unnamed sources say that Google is planning a mega auction center in the new Arizona location in a bid to launch Google Auctions, in direct competition with Yahoo, MSN, and of course, eBay.
Aaron Wall of the SEOBook wonders how such an auction service from Google would effect its advertising model, Google AdWords, which includes mega advertising campaigns from eBay and eBay resellers. Will those sellers be advertising on AdWords in the future for Google Auctions listings and reimbursing Google a higher percentage of the item sale instead of paying the Google AdWords pay-per-click price?
From Aaron : “You have to wonder how this will effect eBay AdWords bidding strategies if a rivalry between them heats up. eBay is one of the most frequently searched terms, and eBay has one of the largest AdWords spends.”
http://www.google.com/support/contact/bin/request.py?ctx=submitted&confirm=suggestion_t
I know this is an old site but we all found it – the above link is for google feedback – I wrote to them. Maybe if more people do they’ll listen.
I hope Google come out with their own auction site. There is only room for one leader. Ebay is the king now. When google opens an auction site I am gone from ebay. I have sold 40,000 items since I started in 98. Ebay has gone too far this time. OFF WITH THERE HEADS
Hopefully ,this will at least create competition!the no feedback thing and 21day paypal turn around are outrageous !
With these new changes coming up I’m done with eBay! Protest by signing the petition here!
http://www.petitiononline.com/ebayfee/petition.html
I hope Google will launch an auction platform ASAP. I no longer sell on eBay because their fees killed my profit margin. They are so prideful and rude as well. I shop on Amazon as much as possible instead of eBay.
Please get GOOGLE auctions up & running before I die!
I already have GOOGLE check-out & plan to get away from Paypal ASAP!
I kicked Ebay to the curb. All 8 of my buying & selling ID’s are dead & stinking in the water.
I’ll never go back!
I want to stick with 1 venue, all the way! And GOOGLE would be my “it”
I would list & sell VICTORIOUSLY
I’m hanging in there, in hopes that this latest Ebay meltdown, will prompt GOOGLE to get this going.
What say you?
Google,
I left ebay in august of 2007, after doing the math we made very little profit so we made up are minds to close the store and stop selling till we moved else where or just stop on line sales altogether. what blows you away is looking at the fees; bottom line ebay is making up to 10% of your profit if not more and this is not including paypal fees!…….We need a new site and I think and hope Google will save the online auction business, if not I guess its goodbye to all of it, it was good when it stared, now I’ll just be one of those people who will drive to the local malls and do my shopping, and sell at the local flea market just like we did in the 1990’s before ebay. Hey we made good $$$ back in those days but abit more labor and I still have friends doing it!……Google please listen to the people……we need a new marketplace I will be there to open my accounts I love working from my home. good day to all of you at google if you need any help from me you can email me at: pacman@ameritech.net
Thank You
Elena Reina
Chicago
Over 6 years with ebay, it’s time to move on elsewhere. I would be very happy to see ebay go down the drain because they don’t deserve the success the community helped them achieve. Thanks Google, please hurry and make it happen as we are all waiting anxiously. I have already added google checkout to my website and will get rid of paypal as well. Google all the way.
Danty Y.
I got a S&H quote before bidding, &won.
The seller then almost doubled the S&H fee, so I did not pay, & contacted ebay resoloution.
To my amazment, ebay sided with the seller! With copies of emails showing her thievery sent to them!
When the heck is Google going to move on this?
I stopped using ebay aswell, I now use a great alternative http://www.onlineauctionexchange.com. No Listing Fees, No Commission or End-of-Auction Fees. List your goods and services for a fraction of what you will pay eBay. Get your own online store for .99 cents a month. Online Auction Exchange. Finally A Good Ebay Alternative.
well it seems to me that your post is nothing but an ad, i would in fact hazard a guess you are the owner of the website, To be honest, nothing is going to rival ebay unless it is setup by someone who has access to more traffic than them namely google.
Ahahaha you joker, you posted the ad about your www. onlineauctionexchange .com. website an you havent even finished installing the script.
OnlineAuctionExchange Free Online Auctions – SITE ACTIVATION
You will need to activate your license in order to be able to use PHP Pro Bid.
Please follow this [ link ] to login to the clients area of phpprobid.com
You will need to complete the following details on the SITE ACTIVATION page in order to get a valid license.
Please note that all requests are logged to prevent any abuse and we can disable your license at any time.
Users that abuse the licensing service by requesting keys for unlincesed sites will have their membership cancelled.
IMPORTANT: Each license key is only valid for one installation.
Do us a favor, Stop spamming this discussion page and get a life.
Actually I do not own the site, I wish I did. It seems the link isn’t working cause I typed it incorrectly. It should just be http://www.onlineauctionexchange.com what is the big deal with posting information about a good resource? Wasn’t that what the Internet was intended for?
This post is not just an ad, it’s 3 years old and vibrant discussion from eBay and other users about Google opening auctions.
The value is in the comments :)
I disagree, there is no value in the comments at all. All he is saying is he has stopped using ebay and is plugging a differen auction site.
SORRY, I thought this was a discussion about google openeing a auction site and not a place for blaggers to promote their own auction websites that will never be anything other than a pipe dream!!
The site he posted the link to has just 67 Active listings in total so it is hardly valuable nor is 3 years old. When i went to the site, it was in the middle of being setup the php script was being installed. SOME ON!! GET REAL
If you consider the following not to be an ad or indeed webmasters own hype, then you are hardly qualified to be an editor of such a discussion, the post is clearly spam and has been submitted purely to attract visitors.
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No Listing Fees, No Commission or End-of-Auction Fees. List your goods and services for a fraction of what you will pay eBay. Get your own online store for .99 cents a month. Online Auction Exchange. Finally A Good Ebay Alternative.
MYSELF being an editor for ODP (Dmoz), I see webmasters own hype all the time and most of them are a little less blatent!
I’VE BEEN SELING ON EBAY SINCE 2000 ADVANTAGE-SALES IS MY ID, THE FEES ARE OUTRAGEOUS I SPEND ABOUT 5-8 THOUSAND A MONTH, THE MONEY IS BEING MADE BUT THE NEW PAYPAL RULE AND THE FEEDBACK STRUCTURE HAS REALLY MADE ME LOOK ELSEWHERE, I HAV ECREATED ACCOUNTS WITH ECRATER AND ONLINEAUCTION.COM , I AM DESPERATELY WAITING FOR GOOGLE AUCTIONS, I THINK THEY WILL BE EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE OF THEIR TRAFFIC. AND EBAY IS ABOUT TO LOSE MANY SELLERS WHICH ARE LOOKING FOR AVENUES TO SELL AND MONEY TO SPEND DOING IT. VIVA GOOGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope google opens up an auction site myself .. but I think they are more into the search and adwords than anything else … I don’t think they will want to deal with all the bull. For now I will continue to use http://www.onlineauctionexchange.com don’t cost me a dime to list my auctions.
At it again i see. Look this www. onlineauctionexchange. com has less than 100 active listings so what does that tell you? So you expect us to bieleve that you will sell anything on that site? SORRY it is clear you are simply spamming this sidcussion and i would not join that site simply because of that fact alone.
Can’t believe this debate has been around for so long!
I for one would be quite happy to ‘jump ship’ when google auctions launches. Though how long do we have to wait?
I’ve set up a debate and few polls about the subject here – http://www.squidoo.com/google_auctions-vs-ebay
Hi all, Have read some really interesting views on ebay and noted that not many people who have posted here are really happy with ebay! I also realize that most of you still use ebay because there just is no Viable alternative!
I would imagine that most of you have heard already that ebay are about to change the rules on sellers leaving negative feedback for buyers? This means that a buyer will have the upper hand always especially those dishonest ones who make like an item has not been received and then complain to paypal amongst other things! Buyers being able to hold sellers to ransom! ebay needs to remember exactly who their customers are, the people who pay the money to them! ARE ebay a Bunch or Morons?
We already know that PayPal are but it would also seem that instead of ebay making paypal better, Paypal are actually making ebay worse!
If you disagree with these feedback policy changes, please sign this petition I found at
http://www.powersellersuk.com/fbp
It may not make a difference because it is clear ebay do not care about what their customers want but will at least show ebay that they are losing customer loyalty from thier Sellers and Powersellers, those who spend a load of money each month, Not because they want too but because they have no other option.
Saw a TV Doc last night about the Counterfeit trade sweeping the world out of China. and with ebay claiming something like 70, 80 or even 90% of all internet shopping sales, who will be Blamed for encouraging sellers to buy and sell these goods??? maybe ebays final downfall. After all, every Jumped up Dictator will fall sooner or later!
This is one for you to look at and make you laugh http://web.archive.org/web/19970614001443/http://www.ebay.com/
thats when they first started, must have been when they just learned how to do HTML pages… So they started as a company with crappy web designers and a website that my 6 year old son could have built, only better, They Got lucky and now think they are a Super Power!
Google Please give them them wake up call. You can make money from auctions and advertise Adwords Galore because there will be millions of new users within the first week! If you advertised on TV in USA, UK and others, You would cause ebay to collapse within days I rekon! So many people hate ebay now because of their attitude being they are untouchable! Google shares will double in price over night, You should not show any loyalty to ebay, they banned Google checkout because they are so scared it will kick PayPal out of the top spot, Then they give blag like Google checkut is not secure!! GOOGLE Please, if that was me, it would be a decleration of WAR and with your massive arsenal, you would anylate them the world already loves Google and your public needs you!! take ebay to the cleaners because only you have the power! ebay show adwords on their site but hey, you could show them same adwords on your own auction site and save millions!! Ebay make a mint out of sellers fees and just as much from serving google ads!
You do a deal with ebay and all they do is backstab and ban Google Checkout! WAR I SAY!
Jim, go back to your unrealistic, narrowminded, own little world. Gee, Thats funny you shoot everything down about this site, but yet, you continue to arrive here and disregard everyones ideals but your own, might be only by curiousity, (no,Idoubt it)but total selfish reasons.(thats more like it). Click on his name everybody, It goes straight to his own webpage mentality. Jim!!!, When you wake up or grow up, either one,or probably both, thats when you are allowed out of your playpen to play respectfully. Its amazing how many adults still need preschool instruction!!!!!.
Oh, by the way, ebay started out like all the rest of the businesses out there, DUH!!.
There are a few good auctionsites that people can expound on. We all just need to start using them. One good auction site is called http://www.hibidder.com
Another good commerce Ad site, http://www.blujay.com
Sites like these are just how ebay started, but these people are real, not just a hype setup like ebay.
I have suggested two categories for one of these sites and it was added immediatly, with a “Thank you”, When was the last time ebay has done that!!!.
Just try the other sites out there, theres a huge marketplace out there waiting for you. That is what is going to knock ebay down, All the options out there at our virtual variety web.
Check this site out below(paste©). It shows a few of the auction and commerce places out there. And at the same time you can watch ebays stocks drop as all of you register for your choice.
http://www.psunite.com/auctionsitewatch.php/
savejim I agree with you, it is funny how he shoots everyone down but at the same time clicking on his name brings you to his site and the funniest thing about it is his site don’t even have a google page rank … maybe 2 links back to it. At least I mention a site with merit … soory jim but putting me down isn’t going to do you any good … and yes it is true ebay and all businesses start out with nobody … the only way to get customers is to get the word out … so I see no harm in posting a link about a site you think will benefit others … jim you need to spend more time getting some page rank than worrying about this thread … you have alot of work to do to even get a page rank of 1 … maybe I can help … how is your bank account latley??
Steve my friend, I have a quite a large number of customers and page rank means nothing to me as they visit my site and order supplies regularly! Page rank? You pretend you know what you are talking about but you make yourself look foolish!! My website itself is only a few months but has a very satisfactory ROI Thank you! Page Rank!! ahahaha you make me laugh with your Jibberish as even though my site is just a few months old, it still arrives within the first page of matches on google when a customer searches with relevant keywords. Steve, You are clueless and your comments about bank balance and your ridiculous comment about helping me with page rank show just how ignorant you are! The fact is, I do not post my link here to try and get visitors. Also I would not require the web promotion skills of a spammer. No thank you Steve, I do not require any help from you as it is clear that if you were to help, My site URL would be posted inappropriately just like yours is being.
Further, the reason my site appears when my name is clicked is because where it asks you to leave a comment, it also asks for your website address!
If you were such an expert at page rank, search placement and web promotion, you would understand why I have called you a spammer and would bow your head in shame!
You are what is known in the UK as a Pillock!
Oh just to stop any confusion and give poor little stevie any more mud to try and sling, Yes I am also known as paddy!
Hello, second time contributer here. I’ve been reading the comments pretty regularly and have to say, with dismay, that I was wondering when the sniping would begin. I was under the impression that this forum was about Google’s potential auction site, and what could be done to convince the folks at Google to get the lead out and get the site up and working. With respect to some of the other, more vocal (lately) members, could we get back on topic? It seems to me that only by working together, as a team, will we be able to convince the folks at Google that there is a large and united group that would very much like to see an auction site with the clout to be able to compete with E-bay, and that would do whatever we can to help Google in whatever way we can to get it’s site up and running.
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I can honestly say that I have seen ebay make some very big and (BAD) descisions lately and there are alot of people out there who could use a place like Google Auctions to list their items. I for one would leave ebay in a heart beat if google had an auction site. I am a single mom who is also disabled and make a living selling on ebay but they have made it so hard on me that I may have to shut down my store. I have sat and cried all day today because of what I heard they were doing to alot of us today. All of us who are graphic designers who build auction templates, digital photos, banners, logos, storefront etc… will be out of business come March 31st and ebay has not even sent out an e-mail about this yet. But the listing process has changed. They give us less than a week to figure out what we are going to do before our auctions are ended on March 31st. I have surgery this week and will not even be able to work my computer for a coupld of weeks and I wake up to all of this, just this morning. I have cried until I can’t cry anymore. I must wipe away my tears so when my 6 yr old gets off the bus in a little bit she won’t be upset too!!! I don’t know how I am going to pay my insurance, truck payment, etc now…. PLEASE GOOGLE… open this auction site already. It has been almost 3 years since this was announced. I know you are not afraid of Ebay!!!!! I want to be one of the first people to sign up for Google Auctions!!!!
not gonna happen. they’d be competing with their own customers(everone that advertises with google) and hurting their core business if they launched an auction site.
Come on Google what’s happened to the Google Auctions, you have thousands of people fed up with Ebay and Paypal waiting to go with Google yet nothing is happening.
Also put a stop to eBay showing on Google searches after all eBayers are not allowed to use Google payments.
We are fed up with them dictating to us and overcharging for the privilige of selling through them.
Now my Paypal account won’t let me buy anymore because I have reached a £1000 limit unless I furnish them with my bank details. And that will never happen and I don’t even take payments in I just buy but they now are dictating how much I can spend on my credit card over a period of time. So they have lost my custom and I hope everyone else follows suit.
So come on Google get your finger out and take Ebay and Paypal out of the equation.
I should of mentioned in my message that my £1000 is not a monthly spend….lol (I wish)
I have been with Paypal since 2005 so it’s a figure from joining them.
Obviously Google would do great, but dan is right. For them to create an auction would not make much sense due to their main business. However, I have a question. There are many auction sites out there, why does everyone have to use ebay? For example Steve listed an auction site ( didnt have anything in it), but if everyone began listing their items on a different site wouldnt others follow suit and use that site? I’m not very active in auctions, but I am dying to know why????
This is awesome, ebay is about the biggest ripoff next to high gas prices. We have a perfect feedback rating until a stupid customer ( who is always right) leaves 1 negative feedback. What does ebay do about this, hmmm they steal about 1,000 dollars from us for their ripoff fees and block our user registration. Ebay is a joke and you don’t make any profit at all. If you want a real site try amazon.
Brad Fettig
CANT WAIT FOR THIS TO HAPPEN, YOU HAVE MY BUSINESS 100%
I hate ebay ebay is the one who closed yahoo auction down and bought them out,I have made ebay thousand and pay pal and they treat me like shit,e bay will always buy out the compition, I cant beleive that the goverment dont do something about e bay they are nothing but theves,but I have no outher choice but to keep dealing with them,and e bay knows it,because they keep buying out there compition and closing them down, so if anybody knows of anouther auction site that has at half the traffic as e bay please let me know
Ebay sucks and will continue to do so as long as they continue to raise fee. Its a shame that they took somthing so good and turned it into crap.
I recently posted this on eBay. I hope Google can use some of these ideas to kick their ass …
I have been away from eBay for awhile and am shocked at how disreputable it has become. I am a long time member, and every year it has gotten worse and worse. It seems almost obvious that eBay PURPOSEFULLY TOLERATES SCAMMERS on the site to increase their revenue. Maybe this is obvious to all of you, but I just wanted to post my thoughts on what an HONEST WEBSITE SHOULD DO.
1) Sellers that have 0 or negative rating should be flagged with a RED BORDER around the action. Yeah this might suck for some new members, but warn the other 99.9% of users.
2) Like 1, sellers who’s accounts are less than 30-90 days old should also have a RED BORDER or similar indication to tell buyers to watch out.
3) Buying feedback for a seller should not even be displayed or counted for a sellers auction. I don’t care how much stuff the seller bought, that doesn’t mean they are at all honest.
4) If ebay really cared about improving the buying experience, why can’t I filter out buyers based on account age or feedback rating. Should I really have to manually go through all this for every search I do. No!
5) Finally, the TRANSACTION PROCESS SHOULD BE MODIFIED FOR ALL SELLERS WITH LOW RATINGS. Specifically, why not first have a seller to PROVE they have goods if they have a low rating before telling the buyer to send the payment. Yes, a buyer could ask for such proof right now (picture of item and winner’s username), but I’m sure many HONEST buyers don’t think of this until its too late. And if scammers knew this was the standard case, then they might not bother to scam people in the first place.
Ok, so those are my thoughts. Please tell my why I am wrong, and why ebay really is the BEST place to sell online. If not, why hasn’t eBay implemented these features. It doesn’t take an Internet genius to figure this stuff out. Ultimately, their INaction tells me enough. They DON’T CARE ABOUT THEIR BUYERS OR SELLERS, just transaction counts and clicks. Typical corporation that merely gets by because there is no competition. FFS, I sure hope Google sets up an auction site soon. I am sure they could think of 10x more ideas to make it better for everyone.
Unless I am corrected, this is probably the last time I’ll be on eBay for some time. Its pretty sad the execs are running this site into the ground.
g’night and good luck.
Ebay’s recent policy change that only give buyers the option to leave negative feedback is a COMPLETE disaster. 1 of every 6 or 7 items I sell doesn’t get paid for, and I’m constantly dealing with buyers that try to extort money out of me with threats of leaving negative feedback.
Ebay was bad enough BEFORE they made this move, now it’s laughable to try to do business through them.
Google, if you have any plans to compete with ebay, the time is N-O-W!!!
So there are many so called alternatives out there and most are setup by internet newbies who end up with a glitsy looking Auction website but no one selling.
It is going to take a massive company to take on ebay. A company that is already an Internet and communications giant.
You would never have guessed British Telecom are Investing in such an alternative. Offering Anyone around the World an Alternative Marketplace To sell on.
I know that most people reading this are doing so because ebay have made them angry and seek an alternative.
Maybe this will be the one that knocks ebay of their High Horse and makes them think again about how they treat people..
YO! im so tired of the rules and BS negitives i keep getting now, people are leaving negs every other day now and im realy getting tired of this shit,
~one pissed off FEEBAYER
Please get the site up & running soon. I have been at Ebay almost 9 years. Too many changed too many fees…No Neg. feeback for non payers…limited shipping on media…DSR Crap…The Ebay upper curst has put sellers at the bottom of the list. How can Ebay justify what they are doing to us all???
Please get your site up and running soon..WE NEED YOU…Ebay can go to hell…
I need another site to sell on any recommendations? Ebay is a bunch of idiots. I don’t understand what they are trying to do to us sellers. dhenson001@neo.rr.com
GOOGLE….IT’S PAST TIME FOR YOUR NEW AUCTION SITE…..TAKE A SURVEY NOW..
THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF US WORLDWIDE SICK OF EBAYS RIP OFF..
GIVE US YOUR AUCTION SITE FOR CHRISTMAS….WE NEED GOOGLE NOW
I’m so happy that Google is stepping up to the plate. EBay really needed some strong-arm comptetition. Millions of buyers and sellers are looking for an alternative to EBay, and Google is just the guy for the job!
PLEASE GET YOUR AUCTION SITE ON LINE THIS YEAR… LIKE JAN. 2009 EBAY HAS GONE TO POT..(HELL FOR THE LONG TERM)
PEOPLE ALL OVER THE GLOBE ARE FED UP WITH HIGH FEES…NO FEEDBACK..DSR CRAP.. VEST MATCH CRAP, LEAVING THE SMALL SELLERS BEHIND, PUSHING THEM OUT….HIGH FEES..NO CUSTOMER SERVICE .. I COULD GO ON AND ON HERE..
PLEASE GET GOOGLE AUCTION ON LINE SOON…..
NO EBAY…NO EBAY…NO EBAY..
TAKE A SURVEY NOW …. WE NEED YOU
THE WORLD NEEDS YOU…
FEEbay ARE NAZISTS!
F*ck FEeBAY. Go to hell CEO from FeeBAY
People STOP now BUYing AND SELLing on feEBAY!!!!
GOOGLE AUCTION WANTED NOOOW!!!
HATE THE PAYPAL EBAY MONOPOLY
WE WANT G BAY.
Same fees or less is ok with me I’m tired of being jerk around by eBay. One thing I would like is you let sellers and customers pay with money orders or other payment options.
Google, sign me up!
THIS GOOGLE AUCTION QUESTION WAS POSTED IN 2005…IT’S BEEN ALMOST 3 YEARS NOW…NO GOOGLE AUCTION.. WHY???? PLEASE GOOGLE GET ON WITH THE AUCTION SITE….FED UP WITH EBAY AS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF EBAY’S CUSTOMERS AND SELLERS WORLDWIDE ARE……GOOFLE AUCTION NOW…TAKE A NEW SURVAY NOW…..THE TIME IS RIGHT EBAY STOCK AT A ALL TIME LOW….$12.45
GET GOOGLE AUCTION ON LINE NOW..
I hate Ebay they take the pi** on there auction fees.
I recently sold an item for for £500.00 i had only one bidder the buyer pulled out and now they just hog the fee.
It’s taken over two weeks to get the money back but they only offer Ebay credit not any good to anyone…I want my money back!
To sum it up the are as usefull as an ashtray on a motorbike!!!!
I want my money back please google obliterate Ebay!!!
Sorry guys, Ebay rather buy google auctions projects than have it like competitor . Oh buy the way Ebay bought google long time ago.
I know it s&#ks
ebid.net on line auction site is here, stop waiting for site that are not existing and make the move with something real like ebid.net, if ever in the future, some new on line auction site goes on, then you should thing about it and make a decision, but for me the future is now and now this is ebid.net
GOOGLE, WILL NEVER OPEN A NEW AUCTION SITE…EBAY HAS BOUGHT OFF GOOGLE….THIS QUESTION FOR US ASKING GOOGLE WHEN, IS A TOTAL LIE…….GOOGLE WILL NEVER GO ON LINE WITH ANY AUCTION SITE…..LIKE I SAID EBAY HAS GOOGLE SOED UP….SO STOP WASTING YOUR TIME….IT WON’T HAPPEN..TOO BAD
FOR US ALL…WE NEED ANOTHER AUCTION..EBID HAS A LONG WAY TO GO, SO DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH IT…YOU WON’T MAKE ANY MONEY…SO MUCH FOR THAT….
EBAY’S BIASED AND PROBABLY ILLEGAL POLICIES ARE DRIVING SELLERS AND POTENTIAL BUYERS AWAY AT AN ALARMING RATE. I HAVE BEEN WITH EBAY FOR OVER EIGHT YEARS AND I CAN TELL YOU FIRST HAND THAT EBAY IS INEPT, THEY OFFER NO PROTECTION AGAINST CROOKS AND THEIR FEES ARE RIDICULOUS. SELLERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE NEGATIVE FEEDBACK FOR UNSCRUPULOUS BUYERS AND SO CROOKS GET AWAY WITH THEIR CRIMES AND OTHER SELLERS CANNOT BE FOREWARNED. NOW EBAY IS FORCING BOTH SELLERS AND BUYERS TO USE PAYPAL (WHICH EBAY OWNS) SO THAT THEY CAN COLLECT EVEN MORE FEES. THIS POLICY IS DRIVING AWAY POTENTIAL BUYERS AND IS CAUSING SELLERS TO LEAVE AT AN ALARMING RATE. IDIOTS !!!!! I WOULD SWITCH TO ANOTHER VIABLE AUCTION SITE IN A HEART BEAT. IF IT IS TRUE THAT EBAY OWNS GOOGLE, THEN WHY IS THIS ADVERTISEMENT EVEN BEING PRESENTED? I JUST WANT TO SEE EBAY GO DOWN THE TUBES BECAUSE IT IS OPERATED BY CROOKS AND THIEVES AND YES BLATANT LIARS!! AT ANY RATE, IT FEELS GOOD TO VENT ON THIS SPACE AND TO WARN PEOPLE ABOUT EBAY.
IF ANYONE READS THIS AND KNOWS OF ANOTHER VIABLE OPTION TO EBAY, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I SELL ON EBAY AS FTLAUDBOB.
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Ebay just took down EVERY one of my listings! I used the word feedback in the title and they pulled all listings and suspended my account for 30 days…No warning, no prior notice…nothing! If they value the people that WORK HARD to sell and make it so there is stuff on there, you’d think they’d at least warn you…but nope…nadda! THEY should be checked due to possible anti-trust violations with making people use only paypal to pay……I had 100% positive feedback…NEVER a negative, 5.0 DSR ratings and this is my ‘thanks’ from them>>>OUTTA HERE BUDDY…Scram, get lost…we don’t care about you one tiny bit…Fine…I’m out for 30 days buy there’s and old saying I just Love…What goes around ,comes around…I can’t wait till the day when they have real competetion and they all meet their maker and get to answer for their arrogance and the way they treated people… He who laughs last, laughs best! :)
goodbye and goodriddens ebay!!!
lets just hope that google start up there auctions site soon, as this post dates back to 2005 and now its 2009.
Ebay need the competion and only a company like google can do that, i buyers and sellers whould use the google auctions service, ebay seems to have things all there own way, how on earth there allowed or think its correct to charge a total of 10% of a items sale price is just like robbery, google needs to come along and half the listing and sales fees, and rework there google checkout sytem into something similar to paypal, then its goodbye paypal and ebay from alot of sellers i whould think, then all the buyers will mobve onto the service
PLEASE Google…PLEASE hurry and open up an auction site. I promise you, just about *ALL* sellers are sick to death of eBay’s extortionate price hikes. If you open a service, and charge REASONABLE fees for your effort…80% of current eBay sellers will flock to you in a heart beat! And where the sellers go, the buyers will follow.
You can beat ePay and the are MANY people just itching to help Google succeed on this! eBay have a bad reputation and nothing will ever fix that, we only tolerate them because there is no realistic alternative.
lol, and has anyone noticed eBay’s latest move? They have made all bids PRIVATE, that basically means that people have free-license to SHILL on listings with impunity.
eBay absolutely LOVE shillers as it increases their already huge profits.
And when you consider that eBay’s system is “aware” of everyone’s maximum bids, I would not put it past eBay to have their own little army of shilling accounts. Hiking up prices to the maximum with fake eBay created accounts and now they have made all bids PRIVATE they can get away with it completely. Oh, they are quite discusting.
PLEASE Google, step into this arena and offer us an honest alternative to sell our items!
I wish you all the best. let’s get rid of ebay, i mean FEEbay. THESE SUCK AND LET’S SHOW THEM THAT THEY AIN’T WORTH A PENNY. Please publish as soon as possible.
WISH YOU LUCK
There is a new site where you can list for free and it has a little different take on the bidding procedure. you can sell stuff easy. the site is xbart.com
PLEASE Google start up an auction site to rival eBay. eBay NEEDS competition as their customer service sucks butt. They have pissed off almost all private independent small sellers. They only want the big box companies.
Well, if that’s all they want then they need to remember that sellers are buyers too and I refuse to do any buying on eBay until their policies change. Without sellers and buyers eBay will have nothing!