What happened?

[donnashuggy]

Is it moderation

Is it changes to social media

Is eBay dying

?

[imastawka]

Do you mean ebay or the forums in particular?

Cos if you mean CS, it's apparently because posters like to swear a lot,

and call people names and they can't do it here.  

I've gotten used to the moderation, and it's actually calmed me down a lot.

Who needs all that angst?      I prefer not to burst a vein over things

[donnashuggy]

Does this help?

This board used to be so busy that we even needed moderating

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25 minutes ago

When it was being heavily monitored and moderated eBay did not know they were onto something good...........

It was 10 years ago I went to eBay Live in Las Vegas, how times have changed.

[donnashuggy]

When it was being heavily monitored and moderated eBay did not know they were onto something good...........

It was 10 years ago I went to eBay Live in Las Vegas, how times have changed.

[donnashuggy]

It was liively everywhere to the point where everyone begged and crawled to eBay, the moderators or anyone they could ge hold of

Everyone was making sales etc

[bushies.girl]

What happened?

Peeps found FB lol

[imastawka]

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@donnashuggy wrote:

Does this help?

This board used to be so busy that we even needed moderating

Options

25 minutes ago

When it was being heavily monitored and moderated eBay did not know they were onto something good...........

It was 10 years ago I went to eBay Live in Las Vegas, how times have changed.

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I must be tired.  I don't even know what all that means.

I'm late to the boards, Donna.

Lithium had just taken over when I got here, so I don't know what it

was like before that.

I know people say that the first page was always moving

[imastawka]

When it was being heavily monitored and moderated eBay did not know they were onto something good...........

It was 10 years ago I went to eBay Live in Las Vegas, how times have changed.

[donnashuggy]

Oh I was just asking on the ps board, it was thriving 10 years ago

Yes there was a lot of nastiness and stuff but it was very busy 'for' eBay which meant it has a lot of interest

[imastawka]

I don't go in there much.   If I want to comment I'll show my pretty dress.  lol

Ebay keeps shifting the goal posts for sellers

It's just getting too hard for some

[donnashuggy]

They have not managed their popularity well, it  may change now that they have some steady large retailers

[amber-eyed-girl · Accepted solution]

I wasn't on the boards until after Lithium, either. Generally though, eBay has changed dramatically in those ten years (I was buying up a storm).

It was a different place. Zing off a bank deposit and hey presto your stuff turned up. Australian eBay, was Australian eBay. For exotic stuff signing in to eBay U.S. was needed...no wading through 10000 Chinese listings. 

People trusted each other more and that mostly worked out, rather than all this I've just been shafted by yet another buyer and/or seller thread.

yep...eBay ain't what it used to be

eBay has steady large retailers now, yes, and is using discount offers to lure us into buying from them. Each has their own online store with offers on a regular basis, too...so be interesting to see how many value eBay sales longterm. Each one I have bought from here has subsequently sent me separate deals for their own sites.