eBay Turns to Sellers for Help with Catalog

by: Ming the Merciless

I'll help ebafia create their unnecessary catalog when Search reverts back to ending soonest and ALL algorithms are removed.

by: eBay Shill Buster

Devin is too stupid to fix eBay Ming, all he can do is keep trying new ideas to extract more cash out of a declining cash flow, dude is not the right man to lead this company, he needs to go now.

by: Grady

I would help Devin .... across the tracks  !!!

by: Rexford

Ming says "I'll help ebafia create their unnecessary catalog when Search reverts back to ending soonest and ALL algorithms are removed."

The algorithms are an enormous problem.  Particularly in the hands of eBay.  

by: nuggets

Heres an ebay employee who just got canned, I think, saying some really devious stuff was going on. This stuff is getting really gross and they need to be investigated.


https://www.thelayoff.com/ebay

eBay abuses the very people who pay their wages..

I quit working for eBay after sitting in long executive meetings, where management basically plotted ways to farm more and more money from Sellers, without any actual knowledge or research to show why they where doing it. They would 'create' market research which they would release to the public, yet it was completely false and made up only to support their hypotheses - which normally included making it more and more difficult for the account holders (sellers) to actually, well, sell. Many of us often were left perplexed by what they were trying to do, none of it made sense - destroy the account holders with ridiculous policies and charge them more for doing so? It literally gobsmacked me. That along with the fraud was the last straw for me, they used to a good, fun business, since the last five years, the new CEO's, havung never sold on eBay have single handedly destroyed it. I fear, that it was intentional, to basically short the stock. Who knows.
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by: Ming the Merciless

I've been saying for more than 10 years that ebafia's alleged 'market research' was non existent and that they made up whatever suited their purposes at the time.

I've called them several times and demanded to see this 'market research,' who did the research, and the actual numbers or responses actually were.

I've  been denied each and every time with ebafia claiming that this non existent 'market research' was confidential and proprietary.

Liars and thieves all.

by: Grady

I had a relative that worked there and what she was telling me was the main reason I quit the site. I am really glad I did, too. A lot of it was so hard to even believe, but it turned out to be true. I never would have seen a lot of this coming 4-8 years ago. I would have believed "nobody would do that to their own company or the customer". Most of this started in 05-06. And there is MORE to come.  

by: Paul W

None of my collectibles and military surplus items will ever be in their pathetic catalog, but I would not volunteer to help in any case.
If they make search any worse than it already is, I may just have to abandon my anchor store for eCrater, on which my sales, while far less than eBay, have been steadily increasing.

by: okie1304

They have giant, enormous bloody balls, to expect Sellers to "assist" them in any of their "bright ideas"!!!!!  Nothing works as it should for many, many months now. Example. bulk editor wont' save changes to templates and missing images have to be replaced by Sellers as per my last service tag. Initially CS told me eta of fi 07/13/18 and since I had a service tag, I would be notified of the fix...NOT.  Was also tole when the fix did happen all my pictures would be replaced on active listings and on my templates.  Now they say they lost my photos and I will have to put them back in manually!!  1300+ templates all need editing and no bulk editor to help me, BUT yet they want Sellers to help them...?????? No, HELL NO!!

by: eastwestphoto

I volunteered to help eBay for many years; never once did they call and ask for help in the camera marketplace of which I was a top salesman for the last 50+ years! it wouldn't matter anyway, the problem has been the eBay JUNK search system! You cannot search Title, Category, & description and not get back 47% failure rate! The search system has to be required too be "Manufacturer and Model", that is all! As for the current product system it's a failure! Most of been written by a huge store on eBay who pushed the latest and didn't want the rest of older inventory photographic equipment  to show up! eBay got scammed and didn't even realize it! Betrayed by their own consultants!

by: Grady

Lay off half your employees and beg your customers to do the work for free, are you idiots for real?

by: JohnGermaine

What in the world are they smoking?  Catalog, indeed!  Silly boys haven't much of a clue about what they are doing!  You ARE NOT Amazon. Stop trying to be and GO BACK TO YOUR ROOTS, where you made money.

by: JackieBlue

Ebay is just doing exactly what Amazon asks.  They ask you to answer questions about products and rely on consumers and sellers alike to correct listing errors on their products.  Same for UPC abuse on Amazon.  At least eBay doesn't compete directly (yet).