GRIEVENCES: 1. Feedback changes. The proposed changes are more harmful than beneficial: A. Sellers will no longer be allowed to leave negative feedback. B. Feedback older than 12 months will no longer be displayed. 2. DSR (Detailed Seller Ratings) tied to search positioning. A. Ebay is unjustly red-flagging good sellers as bad sellers, by stating sellers with a 4.0 rating (On a scale of 1-5) as having "low ratings", implying they are bad. B. Ebay would rather keep real bad sellers, because they earn money. 3. 21 Day Hold for PayPal Payments on "Risky" sellers, or listing in "Risky categories". What is considered "Risky"? A. Sellers with less than 100 feedback. B. Video Games is considered a "risky category". Even well established sellers selling in this and other "risky" categories will be subjected to a 21 day hold. C. Sellers with 5% negatives in a 30 day period. (Extenuating circumstances? Tough luck. Unreasonable buyer demands? Tough luck. Shipping service errors? Too bad). 4. Unreasonable Fee increases. A. Promoted as Fee decreases, Ebay actually increased fees. While dropping most insertion fees by a nickel, they raised the Final Value Fees by as much as 66% B. Reserve fees no longer refunded. C. Store Final Value Fees increased to 12% on top of monthly fees, and listing fees. D. Other fees increases of $20 and more. 5. Dishonest listings used to increase ebay's listing totals:
These numbers were taken from Terapeak and are based on a 90 day history (March 2, 2008 - May 31, 2008) the most current info at the time of publishing: Seller: Buy Total Items Listed: 2,708,987 Total sales: $3,924,907 Successful listings: 64,638 Total Items Offered: 249,431,285 Sell through rate: 2.39% Average Sale: $44.43 MINIMUM listing fee, including dutch auctions: $24,943,128.50 (Based on the lowest fee of .10 per listing, and offering Media Mail. Does not include higher listing fees, or other promotional listing fees, or Final Value Fees, which would increase the fees dramnatically).
MISSION 1. Unite members to strengthen ebay members. 2. Refrain from buying on ebay until ALL terms are met. 3. Refrain from selling on ebay until ALL terms are met. 4. Promoting sellers who sell on the member voted sites, by advertising the following alternate sites: A. onlineauction.com We would be honored if you would please use promo code: 33934AAA or 33176AAA when becoming a founding member. B. etsy.com (hand made items only) C. ioffer.com D. ecrater.com 5. Stay committed to each other by purchasing from "refugees" (boycotting ebay sellers). 6. Join myspace.com/boycottebay the source of our direction.
TERMS: 1. Revamp the FB process, BUT, not in the way proposed. We WILL NOT be held hostage by extortionist members. 2. Use the DSR, but, don�t allow extortion by tying to how items are listed in the ebay search engine. 3. Immediate release of PayPal funds. 4. Restructuring the fees, to a REASONABLE rate. 5. Removing PayPal as the only online payment option, and allowing checks and money orders to be accepted again. 6. John Donahoe's resignation, if the terms are not met.
