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to date: my ebay account; so ancient. i was, i think, fifteen when i created it. lied about my age; worked just fine. paypal did not yet exist; mailed a check. i still have my first purchase, some desktop speakers, to this day. use the as workbench test speaks sold a bunch of custom circuits and bent nonsense for rent money in the 00's. sold off a bunch of my gear for much more adult-level rent money in the 10's. by then, it'd become... death of a thousand cuts? listing fee, percentage of sale fee. but wait! shipping is part of the sale fee, though shipping is calculated precisely, we're taking a cut of it. but wait! paypal takes a cut of all this on top of that. oh and you need to pay $10 a month for an "ebay store" to keep going sry so, next phase: alright, selling on ebay is desperation, but maybe i might still buy stuff. but, no: i see this guy listing, arguably, worthless junk, but worthless junk i recognize as the sequel to some other worthless junk i own; some crusty old late-90's failed bit of machine vision hardware. he wants like $$$ and i message him saying: hey yo, no one will ever buy this except me, i offer $ and he is all !!!?#@#% deeply offended so i listed my precursor to his thing at $9001 and within weeks there were others listed for $500, $1200, etc. then recently i logged back in because it was screaming about deleting my account, and it promptly wants me to link my bank account. ok, getting rid of paypal is cool, but this is worse? anyways, my point: is there anything like ebay that doesn't suck like ebay does now? that's not reverb or etsy, and lets me sell, like, high-end c-mount lenses? |
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shocking that a monopolistic company enjoying the benefits of network effects is more interested in showing profits rather than offering a great service to its users! Why would this happen?? |
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well, i dunno, it used to be good. it's kind of like a siphon; past a certain level of customer abandonment the platform will go into a tailspin. people aren't listing much, so people stop visiting as much, so the people still listing start to go elsewhere too. so, yes, i do figure they'd arguably have in interest in not treating people too badly. just, you know, badly, in a casual corporate predictable way but i suppose, as a publicly traded company, they're all about the next quarter... and, maybe, that's what you mean: all this has happened before; all this will happen again. eventually wiley coyote will realize he ran over the edge of the cliff three quarters ago and cue the slide whistle |
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