This is soooo "us" ...sheep...

I am over 60. I lost my job 18-months ago, luckily to redundancy, so we got some breathing space while we figured out what to do.

My wife is Chinese and smart at business so she decided she wanted to give ebay a try. She had been dabbling a bit for 2-years before my redundancy happened. But then she ramped it up.

It has been our mainstay (just!) since I was made redundant. I've been looking for work and cannot even land a voluntary job. Even they have "nothing going". As soon as they learn I'm over 60 interest wanes.

So we are concerned now that no matter how hard we try to be good sellers since this could be our livelihood, that we may just get squeezed out by the ebay regime.

We've been tinkering with getting our own web site running for 6-months now. So that will have to speed up and get running now we think.

At the moment we can still make something out of it so will keep on trying until we can no longer remain viable here or they suddenly DEFECT or REFUND us out of existence.

The selling restrictions we got the other day (refer other thread) for listing in the wrong category have worried us. Seems now that we may be treated badly simply because we are not one of the protected species. Many other O/S sellers get away with the very same thing we have been hammered for.

Certainly the shine of selling and making some kind of living on here is declining for us. We need an exit strategy, and that will have to be the web site.

I too, wonder how many other sellers are feeeling this way.

I just cannot understand why the ebay management folk would think that putting so much pressure on the sellers makes good business sense. From where I sit it looks crazy to do this. In time the shareholders will speak with their feet. But it may be too late then.