Ebays Rolling Blackouts and the Ebay deal with Large Chinese Seller.

[oobs1]

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y14/m12/i16/s05

eBay said a new partnership with Shanghai-based cross-border firm Winit Corporation will provide Chinese sellers with greater opportunity to reach overseas markets, including the US, UK, Germany, and Australia.

Check out what Joe has to say (skip the dog bit...). Joe is worth subscribing too, though USA policies remember...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_iSjlbiN9M

Ive had a Blackout since Monday morning, not a sale. I have just as many listings and similiar/same stock to this time last year, yet my page views are a THIRD of a year ago. Ebay is getting worse and worse.

[horizon1907]

My head is utterly spinning from reading that. As if ebay needs anymore Chinese Sellers. 

[fixnwear]

I have read the links - and honestly can't imagine why or how there are any sellers  (Australian ones at least) still left here!

Is it an addiction or something - in spite of all the carp and most unfabourable conditions for sellers - yet - they still stick around!

The world is big out there - with choices and things to do around every corner, so to speak.

On the other hand, I am not surprised in the slightest that Ebay would favour the Chinese - they are the world's biggest revenue producers - Australians just can't compete with that - not enough of us, plus we think and work differently.

And Ebay is not just about to get rid of the biggest cash cow in a hurry.

The writing was on a wall from ages ago, about invisibility, rolling blackouts, prevalence of Chinese sellers in searches, double standards and rules - I am sure I was reading all that on these boards since few years back now.

[evil_akuma_2002]

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Well...there goes the neighbourhood!

We've all been saying it for a while now, that ebay no longer wants the small sellers. The ones who put ebay on the map in the first place.

FVF on postage was just about the last straw.

Joe Donohue has been making a concerted play for the bulk Asian sellers since moving into office, and it seems that his dream is coming true.

It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall, and see just how much (little), these bigger players are charged on their postage - my wild and unproven guess would be 0%!

My gut feeling is that Joe's blinkered view is far too narrow - and the old adage, 'once bitten, twice shy' will hold very true for these bigger conglomerates. Most buyers, once they recieve their 'cheap as chips' products, that are noticeably of inferior quality, or DOA on arrival, will shun these sellers like a plague. It happens even now.

Mind you, that won't help us...we'll have all long moved on by then.

Roll on, the opposition to ebay!

[ooboonator]

Yes Ebay is going downhill bigtime now. Its only a matter of months, maybe 2 years on the outside before it goes belly up. People want cheap, but they also want quality. Its funny to see big corporations and businesses do these BIG changes that they think are for the better, but ultimately are the cause of their own demise. Sucha great business, gone to **bleep**.

[oobs1]

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2015/1/1421211979.html

More sadness...

I like this comment from one:

eBay management has never considered or appreciated the fact that small sellers were also eBay's most frequent buyers, which is the primary reason for the lagging growth rates.

When I ask people I know and meet day to day about Ebay changing with seller blackouts and the favouring of Chinese importers, the overwhelming majority say they dont use Ebay anymore. Ebay wakeup!