What would you do if you were the ceo of ebay

[casbit33]

If I were the Ceo of Ebay I would make all items free to list and relist.

Storeholders would have a lower FV fee.

Money back guarantee would be scrapped.

Negative feedback button returned for sellers.

Bad buyers and sellers would have their accounts shut down.

And the whole place would get back to being a fair and equal place for all.

What does everyone else think? any ideas?

[*tippy*toes*]

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@chameleon54 wrote:

 The present strategy of chasing large brand name businesses and Chinese $2 shops is not delivering expected growth to ebay at the moment so maybe it is time to review this strategy..

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Given that's what most shopping centres are, eBay probably thinks they can copy it. What they need to realise is, lots of shops close in those large shopping centres.

[everard6920]

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

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@everard6920 wrote:

Remove FVF on postage:

- Sellers can then use this to print their postage, and eBay knows that the seller is not overcharging, so no need to charge FVFs on postage. If you don't use the system, then you pay the FVFs on your postage.

- This would discourage overseas sellers pretending they're in Australia, because the only postage options they'd have would be Australia Post's (and they would have to be in Australia to use those). Of course, they could still use their own country's postage methods, but they would have to pay FVFs on it.

- Handling fees would either have to be included in the item cost (and have FVFs applied) OR you could allow the seller to charge a reasonable handling fee and not apply FVFs to that eg: a percentage of the sale price (eg: handling fees cannot be more than 5% of the total sale price, or something like that). I have to give this point some more thought.

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This presupposes that all sellers use Australia Post.   What about sellers who use couriers, even for small items that could go with AP and not just for large items that cannot be sent with AP?

Also, you are working on the assumption that overseas sellers are all being hit with the fees on postage in the same way as Australian sellers.  The American sellers definitely are not affected in the same way and I doubt that it would worry the Asian sellers either.  Their postage is so heavily subsidised that most of them send items with no outlay to themselves....10% of $0 is still $0.

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You're quite correct, Lyndal. I guess you'd have to get at least a few large courier companies (Allied, Couriers Please, etc) on board with the integrated postage system for my idea to work.

And good point about the overseas sellers - eBay needs to step up and do something about sellers who misrepresent themselves, though. Instead of simply reporting a Chinese seller in China to eBay China (who will then do nothing), as CEO, I'd be looking for ways to ban/restrict them from the site on the Australian end.

[kopenhagen5]

simply reporting a Chinese seller in China to eBay China (who will then do nothing), as CEO, I'd be looking for ways to ban/restrict them from the site on the Australian end.

[dazzledayz]

Chinese sellers misrepresenting their location may indeed be reistered O/S but they are also registered on eBay Aus.

Surely eBay would not find it too difficult to cancel their AU registration and leave them with just the Chinese account.

I think it's more a matter of lack of will.

[lyndal1838]

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@everard6920 wrote:

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

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This presupposes that all sellers use Australia Post.   What about sellers who use couriers, even for small items that could go with AP and not just for large items that cannot be sent with AP?

Also, you are working on the assumption that overseas sellers are all being hit with the fees on postage in the same way as Australian sellers.  The American sellers definitely are not affected in the same way and I doubt that it would worry the Asian sellers either.  Their postage is so heavily subsidised that most of them send items with no outlay to themselves....10% of $0 is still $0.

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You're quite correct, Lyndal. I guess you'd have to get at least a few large courier companies (Allied, Couriers Please, etc) on board with the integrated postage system for my idea to work.

And good point about the overseas sellers - eBay needs to step up and do something about sellers who misrepresent themselves, though. Instead of simply reporting a Chinese seller in China to eBay China (who will then do nothing), as CEO, I'd be looking for ways to ban/restrict them from the site on the Australian end.

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The obvious choice would be to use Australia Post owned couriers such as StarTrack and Mail Call as they are all using the same scanners but that would open a can of worms over AP having a complete monopoly of ebay sellers.

Somehow I can't see sellers sitting back and taking that lying down.

[digital*ghost]

Edited - never mind me, I'm lost in my own little world. 

[lyndal1838]

Probably a very good place to be Digi.

It is a bit of a waste of time second guessing what ebay will/should/might do as they rarely do what we might expect or even hope they will do.

[ebiz911]

Well, I would also shape-up the search function to make it vastly easier to seachamongst the good sellers.

1. search to give facility  to omit user definded words, such as "unbranded"

2. When ranking is by price, the ranking needs to be on the highest price of a multi-price listing. I an sick of these scammer sellers listing $1 on items that have nothing to do with the title just to get ranked first.

[ebiz911]

Indeed, China sellers pretending to be Aussie is close to fraud, some even use the AU POST logo on the site to authenticate their scam. Suprized eBay does nothing about it and AU POST allows abuse of their trademark

[imastawka]

Just to make you aware, and I'm not saying it's true all the time, but....

some Chinese sellers actually do have warehouses in Australia that they ship from.