Sheldon Liber at Blogging Stocks provides reasoned perspective on the growing enmity between eBay and some of its sellers. Put simply he translates eBay's message to sellers as "grow or die." It's a Darwinian game, online auctions.
All this as sellers turn to Google for help in providing new outlets for auctions...hat tip to Ina Steiner for this article.
Band of eBay Sellers Petition Google to Open Auction Site.
"A small group of eBay sellers launched a discussion group on Google Groups to beg Google to consider opening an auction site. The move comes after eBay announced a significant fee hike for Store inventory listings in an effort to "rebalance" the marketplace toward the core platform (non-Store listings).
There are hundred people on the Google Checkout team in Mountain View who must be smiling a little at this one.
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