Today Brian Burke eBay's Director of Global Feedback Policy announced that effective March 31, 2008 sellers of digitally downloadable items on the site will only be able to list these items in a Classified Ad format. According to the announcement, this is being done to prevent real or perceived Feedback Manipulation.

What does this mean for sellers? Sellers of eBooks and digitally downloadable music will no longer be able to sell these products on the site. Instead, they will have to use the Classified Ad format, and then buyers and the seller will not have any protection when using PayPal. Since the transactions will not be through eBay, ther ewill not be the ability to leave feedback either.

As the majority of these products sell for lower dollar amounts, one has to wonder if this really is a fedback issue or if it is another attempt by eBay to reduce the number of lower priced items on the site.

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