@grapecr-30 wrote:
10% is alot....and makes me wonder what will happen this next month, as alot of people are still selling just until SD becomes mandatory, and then will stop..
I'd be more worried about the circa 60% reduction ebay has seen on the longer term view of that data.
The decline roughly corelates to them becoming increasingly controlling and rent seeking to shore up their finances from trying to squeeze ever more from whoever remains here.
Ebay have completely misunderstood what it takes to be successful.
While they still have some scale/volume they should be trying to win people back by being a genuinely simple and enjoyable low cost way to buy and sell with fair fees for all not all the endless oppressive complexity and unnecessary practical problems they keep dumping on everyone and their commercial bias to show buyers uninteresting promoted tat in their search results.
It can be so much more enjoyable buying and selling elsewhere.
Ebay was functional at best (like shopping at Tesco) but now even the functions seem half broken.
They need to re-learn what made this place fun and grow their revenues and margins by attracting new users not screwing down on the existing ones to make them leave or reduce activity levels.
Many of us own a bit of ebay via our pension funds so it's disappointing to see them being so lame.
