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So Who Wants To Run An Online Auction Site? Not eBay! Last One Out, Close The Door Please!
Posted by David White at 5/3/2008 8:10 PM and is filed under Ebay,Internet Auction Marketing,Multichannel Marketing,Selling Basics 
Randy Smythe broke the news in his MyBlogUtopia blog. Now we as small eBay sellers need to make a decision. Do we wait until eBay announces the elimation of the auction format (NO THEY HAVE NOT MADE IT YET!) or do we move to another marketplace before we are the last one out the door.The announced partnership between eBay and Buy.com certainly is not unexpected, (I didn't know who would be the SuperSeller to test this) and based on previous announcements by eBay exec's like John Donahoe and Lorrie Norrington should not be a surprise to anyone who follows the ecommerce marketplace news.
eBay has already announced the demise of LiveAuctions by the end of this year, and despite repeated comments that there is no intention of doing away with the auction format, why would eBay believe we would trust them?
What we need is a marketplace that will allow the individual as well as the small and medium sized business to sell in a format that best works for this group of ecommerce sellers. Several sites come to mind such as Onlineauction.com, eCrater, and others. eBay has shown it's intention of catering to the huge corporate accounts and push aside the "little guys" that made the online auction site the giant it is.
Protect yourself, and your business, prepare to find other marketplaces to sell your product or service, the eBay we know today is changing, and changing FAST!
While I don't work anything on eBay myself, this most definitely sounds like shooting oneself in the foot...? When I think "eBay" I really do think "live auction."
Seems like a stupid executive decision...
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Bryan Burke of the eBay Feedback Division, told me personally, eBay was not doing away with auctions. That comment was backed up by Griff, who was also in attendance. These people hve lied to us, even after a promise not to lie to our group.
Theye each agreed eBay's face was going to change drmatically very soon & we will not recognize their site. They also toldall of us, eBay was NOT trying to eliminate the "little guy" from their site. Simply more lies. This will proove itself this weekend at eBay Live.
eBay Live is nothing we will ever be part of. It is their way of making a news splash & to offend the small sellers again. I would think the eBay founder is enraged, yet he did get his money, so he probably doesn't care either. The small seller make the eBay of today what it is & they go & eliminate us from the action, just for the money.
None of us have any respect left for eBay nor their employees, especially management and the stockholders who let them get away with this and other bad decisions.
I'll bet some eBay employees have their resumes out by now.
eBay management style is that of a backstabber, even while looking you in the eye!
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Hey, sorry for the "fat" fingers in my first comment typing errors.
In addition, www.onlineauction.com reminds me of what eBay was when they first started. The OLA site will soon be SEO friendly for search spiders to crawl their site. Many eBayers have already made the move, so please go on over & have fun hunting. Sellers, give them some spider food.
eBay simply wants to be retail oriented, which does not necessarily include the auction format. So PLEASE be smart in your selling format decisions. Happy selling & happy hunting.
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