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Oct 4
Former Top eBay Seller Talks about the Problems

AuctionBytes has posted part 3 of the recent interview with former top eBay seller, Randy Smyth of GlacierBayDVD.

Here are some of the more interesting tidbits:

Discounts for high volume sellers:

I believe eBay should have some form of discount that allows sellers to grow. They don't believe that because they don't really want sellers to get big. And that's just again my opinion.

Because when sellers get big, they start asking for things. And again, it's just opinion, but I think that's another reason why they let me go. They kind of appease PESA. None of these big sellers on eBay are big sellers. In the rest ofthe world, we're small.

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Meg Whitman...making decisions based on stock price:

Again, it's opinion, so take it for what it's worth. I think what's happened is that Meg has traveled the world to grow, she's become the investors'... It seemed earlier on, she had an opinion that eBay didn't make decisions based on stock price. Every decision they've made recently is reactionary in my view, because their stock price sucks. And so now they're in this quarter mentality, and that's causing them to make decisions,... For me to say these things, and be a guy who failed, it's kind of - take it for what it's worth. But that's just my opinion is that that's what's happening.

And if they could convey what their plan is to their sellers, they could do it in a way that's - there's no competition, so what are you worried about? You've got no competition, so why not convey to your sellers what your plan is? Do you have a plan?


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Bambi writes that StubHub is on the block. Ebay Inc (Nasdaq EBAY) may be a bidder because it needs the growth. The price: $300 million. They expect $100 million in revenues. StubHub is an interesting concept : List your tickets on StubHub, get paid, StubHub does the rest. Queries for StubHub seems to be rising very fast. I think that the company charges too much - 15% commission from the seller, 10% from the buyer. Ouch!

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