Lisa Minter posted on that vast internet thingie:
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jewelry dealer Michael Jansma used to be one of
> eBay Inc.'s biggest cheerleaders. The entrepreneur from Largo, Fla.,
> sells roughly $250,000 worth of baubles every month on the auction
> site. But the revenue Jansma gets from eBay has declined over the past
> year, and in January the company raised fees, denting his profits.
Anyone building a business on Ebay is building their house on sand. Ebay can ignore a history of positive feedback, close your store and account down at their whim and without cause and then all of a sudden any advertising dollars you spent promoting with Ebay are wasted.
We were even buying their $299 a week front page ads.
Anyone who trusts Ebay needs to simply do some reading of the horror stories out there.
Steve Winter SELLCOM
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Could you give us a little more background on this, Steve? It would be interesting to read about your personal experiences with EBay. PAT]