Hundreds of sellers of eBay have called for a global boycott of the auction portal on May 1 over payment, pricing and feedback changes which they allege will hurt their profits (as well as interest).
eBay is known for it’s strict policies – especially when it comes to payment (remember they blocked Google Checkout?).
Recently, eBay updated it’s policies and apart from increase the fees, eBay is no longer allowing sellers to give negative feedback about buyers.
This surely makes them polarized towards buyers – a deviation from the earlier ‘market making’ positioning? Maybe.
Aside, eBay India is on a roll and is partnering with media houses (UTV, Tips, Eros, Shemaroo) to sell high-profile autographed memorabilia on its pages.
Starting today, the official IPL merchandise from Hot Muggs for Team Chennai (Chennai Super Kings) and Team Mohali (Kings XI Punjab) will be available in its Buy it now / Fixed Price (BIN) category listing.
Starting March, it launched “Ten Things To Do Before You Die”, comprising 10 auctions starting at Re One. Its ‘F1 Grand Prix in Monaco’ package, priced at Rs 3.6 lakh got the highest bid of Rs 1.77 lakh.
The listing got over 50,000 unique visitors, and received a total of around 500 bids (an average of 50 bids per auction). The lowest bid was that for a helicopter ride at Rs 28,000. [via BS]
as a user from the early bazee days I think this move is gr8 one for the buyers… many time i have personally experienced threats from sellers (both in ebay.com and ebay.in) that they would leave negative feedback for me if I left negative for them…. even if the situation warrants to do so.. and 99% of the sellers dont leave feedback for the user immediately after they pay which is the way its to be done and use it as a threat tool to use if user wants to leave negative feedback for the seller
there are a LOT of fradulent and shoddy sellers but unfortunately there are also a similar kind of buyers but not that much compared to the sellers
very good move in protecting the buyers interests
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I agree with Jagganath although i also sell on ebay india.
Ya too agree jagganath
hi paypal is the best option but equally good in google chkout here in india we do not have good payment gateways