Almost 9.9 million a few hours ago. Ebay did very well jacking up the numbers without any regular FLD's. What do you see as the peak or highest number of listing this year? I can easily see another million coming to an 11 million total as Christmas is by far the best time of the year for selling on ebay for most sellers.
posted on November 15, 2002 01:21:44 PM new
Wow,
I Guess you will be very busy policing all those listing to make sure they break no Ebay rules...hey TOOLTIMES
posted on November 15, 2002 02:26:30 PM new
It's ebay's job to police their auctions. Ebay doesn't care about illegal auctions or dead emails until a user points it out to them. If there is no rule enforcement there will be chaos. The large number of auctions and rule violations being reported into ebay daily must be overwhelming ebay's resources and ability to handle the situation. I can see that as a strong reason to push for fixed prices and Mega Huge sellers.
The rule breakers always cry the loudest as they are the ones affected.
posted on November 15, 2002 06:53:25 PM new
Tooltimes makes a good point. It would take a full staff to investigate illegal listings. This would cost ebay huge amounts of fee revenue, and salaries. I am surprised they havent put into place a "community watch" like yahoo, but with so many listings and competition jealous sellers would make false statements. eBay is a buyers dream with so much saturation.
posted on November 15, 2002 07:53:16 PM new
There was an article on Yahoo about another listing service helping Ebay lure in and keep all the corporate sellers to rid themselves of excess inventory.
More and more corporations are jumping on the Ebay bandwagon. The only problem with that is they bury any of the little guys auctions behind the thousands they have listed!
posted on November 15, 2002 08:04:06 PM new
Exactly. Ebay is courting the very big sellers and trying to cut lose the small time sellers that it no longer needs or wants.
