I've been saying for years that ebay and Aust Post were killing themselves and each other via their unstoppable greed
It's past that point now. Ebay items plus postage are often more expensive than brand new items at the local shopping mall
Ebay seems now to be in the process of winding down Aussie ebay, apart from imported flat-packed stuff with astronomical delivery charges and no pick-up
EBay's plan to become the dominant online one-stop shop is doomed to failure. Aussies won't go for it and Americans aren't that much different to Aussies, so it will fall over in the US too. The UK has far smaller travel distances and huge shopping malls all over the place so they've no need to buy mass-produced, flat-packed junk on ebay either. And Asians produce the stuff so the Ebay Giant Online Shopping Mall won't even get off the ground there
Ebay has no humility or loyalty and doesn't give a damn about the lives it's mangling --- yet. But you'll care, ebay. You will learn to care. But by then, entrepreneurs will have filled the gap you left and you'll have Buckley's off worming your way back in
Anyway, it's long past the time new online auction/market-places taught ebay a thing or two. Ebay got in first, but it won't be the last. All the Trust spiel. What a joke, ebay. You let me down. I DID trust you and you tossed me to the kerb. My first big ebay lesson and not forgotten --- because you've let me down so many times since ! So move over, ebay and sit back and watch as others show you how it should be done. Crooks are the online version of street-crims. Ebay, you took the side of the crooks so often. When the new online sites emerge, let's hope they've learned from you about what NOT to do, huh ?
In the meantime, Australia Post has shown us its true colours for well over a decade now. Australia Post -- ' a business owned by the Australian people and administered by the Australian government '. But Aust. Post decided to forget who owned it and instead gouged them relentlessly courtesy of the massive rise in posted items generated by its equally greedy buddy ebay
Well Aust. Post -- guess what ? Ebay has screwed you. How's it feel ? EBay's signing out of Australia and it's back to the usual dribble of business envelopes with upticks at Christmas and Mother's Day. We're not paying your pirate rates any more. We don't have to. We've stopped buying on Ebay because ebay has made it too hard and virtually eliminated good old Aussie sellers. So suck it up, Aust Post. We --- your employers -- have given you the flick
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