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August 1, 2007

eBay Selling Now Tougher Because Of eBay Greed!

Selling on eBay just became more difficult, thanks to eBay. When you pay your eBay listing fees, what you are buying is advertising space on eBay's giant site. This is YOUR space and it should belong only to you, the seller. In fact, eBay and its sellers (like me) have gone around the mountain with eBay on this issue before. It isn't the first time that eBay has posted revenue-creating links of the View Item pages of their customers.

My postion: if I pay for a page on eBay, that page should contain nothing but MY offer. eBay is already making money off my listing and that should be enough.

However, eBay is now creeping onto the seller pages with ads directly below their counter. Like this one:

Shame on eBay! This is only a distraction from the seller's offer. Obviously, eBay is including this affiliate link because they expect to make money with it - or, at least, are hopeful they will make added income. Where will that money come from if a buyer isn't distracted from the listing he is perusing and decided to check out the free credit report? In this event, it is almost 100% certain that the seller who paid for this page will LOSE a sale.

What is the remedy? Don't use eBay counters! Instead sign up for a free account with Vendio.com and use their free counters. The counter is a very valuable research tool and is important to a professional eBay business so avoid the distraction of eBay's lame attempts to monetize every word on its site - at the expense of its customers.

Posted by SydneyJohnston at August 1, 2007 3:10 PM

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