I took this differently than what you guys did, but it appears that you may be right. What does it hurt for the items to sit on eBay? I have "junk" that I relist during promotions that sales, but it is slow. When one does sale, ebay makes $3 or $4 off of it. With that kind of a change, my part is simple. Get it all off and sell it at the yard sale. Ebay is leaving a lot of money on the table there. I know many sellers will just say the heck with it and quit. It is so simple. The more items you have on, the more will sell. eBay needs to wake up and look at that. eBay is really the same way as the real world. Small businesses run it (or should). Whenever I go to buy something, I try to get out of all of the 100000 feedback new sellers and buy from the smaller people.
It is a lot easier and I think you get better service. I tried to ask a big seller a question about an item and it said he could not answer questions due to the high number of items he had listed. I kind of understand it, but that turned me off to his listings. If you are going to be in business, you have got to talk to people and be accessible, or at least have someone do it for you.
EBay is cutting their own throat. Why has eBay been successful? The answer is there smaller sellers that sell random things. That is why eBay is knew as the "online flea market". If they get rid of all of the smaller sellers, then why would you buy from them and not amazon or your local businesses? If these changes are going to impact everyone the way that everyone on here is saying, then it is going to be bad in the long run. I know this is lengthy, and not everyone will agree, but I am pretty mad about this.
