A great alternative that is #2 in the UK is http://www.ebid.com,very friendly and inexpensive. Not the volume, only about 2 million auctions, but cheaper, easier, & friendly to one &all. They have been in US for a few years, & in 10 other countries for about 10. Excellent customer service, any errors are immediately reported to tech support, always have offers going (lifetime free listing fees for $49) etc. They seem to be trying extra hard to be a great company. You would not believe all the ex-ebayers that are buying and selling on EBID (and enjoying themselves). NOTE, often your items end up on top of the listings in the category (imagine that), so you actually get the exposure you need to sell the items!

Everyone should get smart. If you have any ebay problems you should contact your state’s consumer protection division, send them a detailed letter concerning the problem. This information will be forwarded to ebay and ebay will be given a deadline to reply. ebay forgets it is a business and is accountable. Doing this reminds them, and maybe they will begin to respond to problems if their legal department gets notified in this way. We can only hope.

EBay’s listings now consist of eBay’s valued sellers listings showing up first and whether you are a decent seller or not, you’ll be lucky if your listing shows up somewhere in the middle or last. Therefore deal or not, does not matter on eBay, you get the deal eBay decide you ought to have. Therefore don’t be surprised if you don’t sell an item on eBay even if it dirt cheap and all you get is scam email from people trying to get into you email, paypal, and ebay account trying to take more of your $$$.

WHY ARE YOU YELLING!?! YOU’RE NOT ON THE CELL PHONE, ARE YOU? MAYBE I SHOULD CALL SOMEONE AS WELL. YEAH, PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR MY CONVERSATION IN THIS PACKED MOVIE THEATRE AS WELL.

LOOK. I SPELLED THEATRE LIKE A EUROPEAN.

Go visit TexasKaos.com…..because everyone else is self-promoting.

NOW I’M GOING TO CALL SOMEONE TOO.

oh, & CL rocks!

In one corner we have a clueless corporation run by a bunch of idiot MBAs. All the real talent fled years ago and they’re left with morons with white teeth and good hair.

In the other corner we have a guy who eschews profit, capitalism and anyting that remotely appears to be non-communal. (Oh nevermind he makes millions himself. Do as I say, not as I do kinda thing. He’s special ya know.) His site, although enormously popular, is absolutely the most hideous looking and user-unfriendly site on the internet.

But CL has the community and eBay has nothing. CL will win by TKO in the 4′th round.

It is a shame as eBay used to be such a great innovative company. Clearly the suits have taken over and are screwing it up. (Hopefully they will sell Skype before they break it as well)

peace,
parris whittingham
New York City Wedding Photographer

Maybe this is normal in today’s corporate world, but the way they pulled information from us and fxcked us over was pretty harsh.
If I compare the services today, Kijiji surpassed my old employer but spent a massive amount of PPC advertising for that. I am glad to see that Ebay doesn’t get the web. Kijiji is a classified grave in which Ebay dumps a ton of money. They are just lucky that they employ the best Paid Search team (& Intelligence) that is out there.

It goes something like this: eBay is interested in getting back a good chunk of the market share for classifieds from Craigslist. Craigslist is not willing to sell, but got soft when eBay agreed to buy only only a minority share of Craigslist that Craig was able to keep control of the company and a nice lump-sum of cash as well (Having a company that is worth millions of dollars on paper does not put millions of dollars in your bank account).

eBay tries to from the inside to get control over the company and eventually the shares needed to practically own Craigslist and integrate it into the eBay platform. This did obviously not work as planned so eBay turned around and launched its own Craigslist clone somewhere else on the world to learn and get the experience that they could not get with their minority ownership of Craigslist.

When they felt comfortable with what they got, eBay brought the baby home and tries to divert potential Craigslist users to their own service to eventually outgrow Craigslist and push them out of the Market. Basically following the principle, IF I CAN”T OWN IT, I WILL DESTROY IT.

Some of it might not have been the plan all along and developed in the process, but I think that the actions taken by eBay speak for itself. My support goes to Craigslist, underdog or not does not matter to me in this case. I simply do not like anybody who uses backstabbing as business practice.