Ebay is it declining?

[stevesoller]

Hello

I am beginning  to  wonder  if  eBay  is  on  a  rapid  decline!  Speaking  to  some  other  users  I know personally  we  are  all saying  that,  with  all the  recent 'revisions' that  have ocurred  recently  the  sales  have  declined. I have  seen  this myself  and  I feel  that  buyers  are  going  elsewhere  these  days.

I am very disappointed  with  this  situation  having been a user  for  20Years  using  my  current  eBay name  and  around 15  years previously  using  a different user name (  we moved  house  and  my user name  had a reference to the old house  name,something  I would never  do these days!)

Just  wondering  what others  think

Steve

[wgwillia]

Its absolutely dead Ebay have killed with simple delivery and buyers protection if its not broken no need to fix it RIP Ebay.

[smarts-gaming]

Its called en*bleep*tification, and it isnt just ebay its happening to. Google and Youtube searches have also become completely useless now, where you can type the exact title of the thing youre looking for and they will still show you what THEY want you to see. 

Its all done for the board members and shareholders. So they can say "look how many eyes on advertising we can get", "we can direct traffic to you" etc etc. Theyve abandoned the entire premise of the features they offer in favor of greed greed greed. And by the time the well has dried up the people who sold it down the river will be long gone laughing their way to the bank. Sad!

[theelench]

Yes, sadly they're all going the same way.  I sell my glass on ebid and from the perspective of a private seller just getting rid of many years of accumulated / collected glass, was quite happy selling 1 or 2 items a month.  That site uploads qualifying ads. to google shopping and it was from there that (I think) most of my sales came.

They've recently re-formatted GS and my sales have stopped.  Why?  Because since the re-vamp ebid ads. have virtually disappeared, even getting the site name on the "Shops" filter needs constant work.  Yet the "About Us" blurb still waffles on about being dedicated to disseminating accurate information to as wide an audience as possible.  It's just not true any more.

These days the ads. shown are wall to wall ebay or etsy with a few others thrown in to make the bias slightly less obvious.  Just as with ebay, those that pay the most get exposure  --  no payments  =  no visibility.

It is sad because I'm not going to give ebay 25% of my sales proceeds, nor am I going to pay google.  IMO it's little people like me who help keep these sites alive, but their greed is making them irrelevant to me.  I hardly look at ebay, haven't bought or sold anything this year.  Google will go the same way and once the interest has gone back to local outlets how much will I need either of them?

[spence0175]

I guess we will never know if EBay are just happy with any price… it wouldnt really make much business sense and yes it wouldnt be fair to that seller if they are being misguided. But I see a lot of privates using BIN and not cheap prices either... But we could talk about auction v BIN….i remember back in the day, auction was King…it was part and parcel of what eBay was about. In fact when I saw my first BIN on a piece of dollshouse furniture I thought it was something dodgy.. Probably because the price was so high compared to other auction pieces..

But like anything, things change and  possibly people have gotten fed up with waiting 7 or 9 days for that auction to finish when a similar piece on a BIN with a reasonable price might make someone think to just buy it now. I know I do…

So the people who are only doing auctions, mostly private sellers are likely to dip out if only a few people are after that item…