I read an interview with Jim Griffith, or popularly known as Griff, on Ina Steiner's AuctionBytes, and he has warned of even more changes to come rolling into 2009. I can't help but wonder if these changes would be for better or worse for small time individual sellers like most of us.
With the changes that have been implemented to date, it looks like eBay is trying to attract niche big time businesses who collaboratively could give Amazon a run for their money, in the process, crushing small time sellers.
Griff has mentioned that the discussion board will be invested with new features and improved upon, providing better transparency and communication. Now, as a long time forummer, I have always had problems using eBay's discussion boards, especially larger, more active ones of eBay.com and eBay.co.uk.
Now, Griff has made this promise, I just think that if they just stop their censorship in deleting threads and moving them to some obscure sub-section, we should be so thankful.
In any case, it is still too early to tell. My main concern is the impact it will have on us small timers who have been making a decent income off eBay. What is in store for us and would it be viable to continue eBaying?
With the changes that have been implemented to date, it looks like eBay is trying to attract niche big time businesses who collaboratively could give Amazon a run for their money, in the process, crushing small time sellers.
Griff has mentioned that the discussion board will be invested with new features and improved upon, providing better transparency and communication. Now, as a long time forummer, I have always had problems using eBay's discussion boards, especially larger, more active ones of eBay.com and eBay.co.uk.
Now, Griff has made this promise, I just think that if they just stop their censorship in deleting threads and moving them to some obscure sub-section, we should be so thankful.
In any case, it is still too early to tell. My main concern is the impact it will have on us small timers who have been making a decent income off eBay. What is in store for us and would it be viable to continue eBaying?
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