News and other tidbits that Chad Cloman finds interesting enough to share
eBay angering its sellers is not a new topic here at Chad’s News. This time it’s trying to institute a PayPal-only policy. I think the online auction business is ripe for some newcomer to replace eBay as the best auction site—much in the way that Google came out of nowhere to overshadow Yahoo!, Alta Vista, Lycos, and other search engines.
Link: http://arstechnica.com/…
eBay has announced a new policy where it will no longer let sellers leave negative or neutral feedback. They’re doing this because they believe that buyers who get bad feedback tend to stop using eBay. (Isn’t that the point?) Although I will say that as a buyer, I have been hesitant to leave neutral feedback in the fear that the seller would retaliate by leaving me negative feedback.
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/…
Toolhaus.org has some useful tools related to eBay feedback. My favorite one allows you to view just the negative feedback of an eBay user—no more scrolling through page after page to check on the negatives. For power users, there’s a related bookmarklet and Firefox extension.
Link: http://www.toolhaus.org/
I hear similar predictions of doom every time eBay raises its rates, but the article seems to think that it’s serious this time.
He tracked down the scammer and called his (the scammer’s) mother.
Some useful tips for selling on eBay, and they parallel my own experience. Another trick I’ve seen is to set the price at $0.01 with “Buy It Now” and set the shipping fairly high. This drastically lowers the fees you pay to eBay, but you still make the same amount of money.
Deborah Hale of Denver has put up her house for sale ($600K) and made national news. The caveat is that the buyer, if a compatible male, will also get her as a bride. Apparently the eBay ad was pulled, but all the details are available at her web site. She’s pretty good looking, too…
