Comments on: Time for an eBay revolt?

By: Bart Brown

Bart Brown — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:07:26 +0000

Just an observation:

Between 09/14/07 and 12/28/07, these officers of Ebay, Inc.:

Meg Whitman, CEO
William Cobb, Officer
Michael Jacobson, General Counsel
Rajiv Dutta, Officer
Scott Cook, Director

Sold $106,727,738.00* worth of stock in the company, Meg Whitman coming in with the highest individual total, selling off 2.56 million shares worth a total of $88.3 million dollars. I think it goes without saying that during this same period, none of these officers BOUGHT any Ebay shares.

Bart Brown

*Source: MSN Money, “Insider Trading”

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:53:24 +0000

Dump PayPal! I have just started using GearPay.com . Last year eBay in their infinite wisdom banned the sale of gun parts, I sell antique gun parts they cut my business on ebay by 2/3rd! I moved on to GunBroker.com (thanks eBay). Now with the new fees and feedback system sellers are no longer part of their community but second class Citizens. I have gone on to Olineauction.com (thanks eBay) I will check out Waggelpop,

PayPal now has the option to hold your money for 21 days to insure your customer is happy with the transaction! PayPal like ebay is anti-gun and has frozen the accounts of dealers who use it, I’m not talking 50.00 or 100.00 here, they have frozen accounts of legal dealers who had thousands of dollars in their accounts, and it takes over 6 months before they might release the funds! Even if you don’t like guns
PayPal is making money off other’s hard work with very bad business practices.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:14:32 +0000

The way to do it is to start a sea change via the “dandelion” method: make up a template email and send it to as many ebay sellers as you can, or want. When (notice I didn’t say IF, but WHEN) enough of us contact enough other sellers, and it only takes each of us to contact two other sellers, the seeds of change will start increasing logarithmically.

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:48:35 +0000

It is time for an eBay revolt — and a Wagglepop revolution.

This is one Powerseller/Store Owner who’s leaving FeePay forever — as a buyer as well as a seller. I’ve opened a store at Wagglepop and will start populating it in earnest as soon as I have the store configured to my liking.

Wagglepop offers some exciting new features in their stores: Red Carpet — discounts to loyal customers; InStore promotions, BuyMoreNow — discounts for multi-item purchases, and OnTarget cross promotions. It’s missing some features that I’ve become quite attached to though: sub-categories and the ability to list store items in two categories.

The irony of leaving eBay but continuing to use Paypal is not lost on us — sellers or on the Wagglepop crew alike. But, honestly, it’s a different fee for a different service and the Paypal fees haven’t been continually raised.