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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.
This new season should be interesting.
With new hurtles both for buyers and sellers,
Buyers are completely open to credit card fraud, despite what they’d have us believe…
That has made the Credit Card watch crew “snap to” in a positive way to the point where
PayPal is now a moot, tertiary entity (3rd party) no longer needed by savvy buyers. We only deal with the credit card company. Absolutely NO REASON for any PayPal involvement, unless of course, PayPal FORCES ITSELF on us, which it does with surprising regularity…..especially on Ebay where the “Break up” of Ebay and PayPal was completely fictional. Even so, I will only deal with my credit card company.
Sellers are vulnerable to the shrapnel of the credit card fraud…..and to the abuse of the selling venue itself.
All in all, online selling has lost its shine. With out exception, no one I speak with is shopping online with regularity. They’ll only “chance it” (credit card fright) for something they really need and can’t get within 50 miles of home.
So,….here we go……