EBay's notorious for making major mistakes

It takes ebay a long time before it admits or tries to rectify its mistakes

Right now, ebay is advertising heavily in Sydney, which speaks volumes.  Never seen so many ebay ads on bus shelters, etc.  So they're feeling the pinch at the same time their policies are decimating sellers.  Which of course results in fewer & fewer buyers

Ebay isn't smart, that's obvious.  It seems to imagine it can rid itself of Mum and Dad sellers.  Seems ebay intends to fill itself with virtual drop-shippers and virtual stores filled with mass-produced, flat-packed imports

Maybe some ebay head's nephew was promoted and to make his/her mark, they've undertaken to 'revolutionise' ebay

Well, when ebay profits continue diving to critical point, will ebay grasp they've made yet another of their loser-moves ?   Seems they're grasping it already, as evidenced by their plague of advertising

In the meantime, long-time ebay sellers have been driven to the wall, finally.  Aust Post's greed has played its role in that

We look back to the good old days of ebay and compare it with now.  Makes you wonder how something so successful could be left in the hands of idiots who've destroyed ebay relentlessly, inch by inch to the hated spectacle it now is

The 'other' site needs emptying out and rebuilding, imo.  There's stuff there which has been sitting for several YEARS.  The sellers are still using the same photos!  Don't they realise we wonder where on earth that stock has BEEN for the past several years ! 

That other site has a prime opportunity now to replace ebay.  Yet it seems in its death throes preparatory to collapsing.  Makes me wonder if it wants to succeed or if it's just controlled opposition

Ebay owns Gumtree, apparently.  So maybe ebay is pushing sellers to list on Gumtree (which, if so, would probably become as expensive as ebay in time) in order to fill ebay itself with the flat-pack sellers

Sad for sellers and buyers alike.  Ebay had THE winning combination a decade ago.  The fact they've reduced such a successful concept to its current sad state is the equivalent of someone who regularly won lotto with their winning combination deciding to go on a losing streak by messing with those winning-numbers.  It's incomprehensible.  Not as if ebay is paying tax and needs to reduce its profits as a tax-dodge, is it ?

So now the entire thing collapses, taking Aust Post with it to a large extent

It's well past time a new ebay-type platform emerged.  Maybe when ebay has completely destroyed itself, new 'ebays' will have a chance, who knows

Asia is NOT the be-all.  Many of their producers refuse to accept that in the West, we are larger, we have longer legs and shorter bodies, wider chests than Asians as well as larger feet.  That's because we're from a different gene-pool and until the Lima Declaration, Australia had the highest quality of life and best and most affordable produce in the world.  We also expect accountability on the part of producers and are sick and tired of disposable consumer items.  We USED to be able to purchase washing machines to toasters in the expectation they'd at LEAST live as long as their warranties, which USED to be seven years, if memory serves.  My old Simpson washing-machines lasted on average 12 years each without missing a beat.  Our 'new', Asian-produced washing machine posing as Simpson conked-out within two weeks.  I had to fight like a tiger to get it replaced.  Now, the lid is already rusted.  Same with ovens and just about every other Asian-produced item we have, regardless of brand.  It's rubbish.  We're paying a premium for garbage and we resent it

The Lima Declaration destroyed this nation and the quality of life of its citizens.  If ebay imagines Aussies are going to purchase the majority of their needs on ebay, they can think again.  Ikea's going to feel the backlash too, if it doesn't quit loading $100 on its products sold in Australia, compared with the rest of the world - particularly as the quality of those products gets more flimsy by the day

To be suspected is that people like me have had enough across the board and this is being reflected in poor ebay sales.  Unfortunately, a lot of great people on ebay are going to be taken down too

The Lima Declaration continues to force unemployment on Aussies for the 38th year in a row.  People who do have paying jobs are saving hard rather than spending.  We know a crash is imminent, you can feel it in the air.  People have realised they have more than enough 'stuff '.  They're tightening their belts, downsizing, getting out of town to somewhere more affordable.  The younger generations are finding it hard to even get a foot in the door.  The baby-bonus is likely to end.  Less money in circulation.  People just buying essentials and even trying to divest themselves of 'stuff ' on ebay, only to discover it's hard to sell with little return for all the effort

Ebay needs a wake-up call, a hard one. Australia Post, same.  The longer they resist reality, the worse it will be for sellers who keep trying to soldier-on

This is the wonderful mess the Fabianists gave us with their Lima Declaration, which at the outset undertook to send minimum of 30% of Aussie jobs overseas, back in March 1975.  The number of Aussie jobs which were destroyed has continued to grow far past that original 30%.  Now it's almost impossible for Aussie manufacturers, courtesy of the exorbitant costs imposed on them by our traitorous government.  Even if they succeed in paying several million just to get started, our traitorous unions will put the boot in to force closure.  We are now the second and third generations struggling with inferior Asian-produced garbage in tandem with increasing unemployment.  The demise of Oz Ebay will just be further proof of general decline in our once prosperous nation that was the envy of the world