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@*sons_and_daughters* wrote:

Always love it when someone has to announce their departure, and also mention they are moving to Amazon. Like ebay would care. Reality is, they don't. No skin of their nose.

 

As for ebay dying, I'd love to see the proof of that. No one ever seems to be able to show proof that ebay is dying, or sellers are leaving in droves. Funny that.

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While I,m not buying into the " ebay dying " thing, the company is certainly in serious decline and needs to turn the ship around fairly quickly. The proof you ask for is in the companies reports to the stock exchange. ( the only reliable statistics ebay publicly provides )

https:/https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/EBAY/financials//finance.yahoo.com/quote/EBAY/financials/ 

If you read these you will see ebays Gross profit has declined each year for the past four years and its EBIT ( earnings before interest and tax ) have declined to a pitiful $667.000 U.S. last year. That's right.... Less than a million dollars in earnings for a global giant. I,m not sure what you understand about economics but that's a pretty scary number and an indication of a company thats teetering on the edge of the abyss. 

Further if you follow quarterly reports they show a company that is struggling to hold onto experienced long term sellers and FALLS in active buyer numbers a common feature.

All up the Company has some major challenges ahead. I have already reduced my reliance on ebay recently as I can see the slow decline in sales continuing as ebay further decays. 

The regular knockers here scoff at sellers such as the OP leaving, but every time an experienced seller with specialist product  leaves ( in this case the largest global seller of a particular type of skate )  that's one less reason for people to shop here and when they buy elsewhere they are less likely to come back here again.