eBay Auctions - dwindling away
Remember Bruce Hershenson of eMoviePoster.Com? Bruce was one of eBay Super Power Sellers who announced after eBay’s infamous site improvements that after he sold 300,000 items on eBay he is quitting eBay completely. Unfortunately he announced it on eBay Seller forums and eBay “accidentally” deleted that very busy thread, so it was preserved on our site as one of the original eBay censorship stories. Whal could be eBay’s motivation deleting Bruce’s post on eBay’s Seller Central, other than censorship?
Business Week just did a good interview with Bruce, titled Auctions on eBay: A Dying Breed As consumers opt for fixed-price purchases, what happens to the company that perfected the art of online bidding—and the scores of e-auctioneers?
Another article worth reading is Was eBay a fad? by RoughType:
June 03, 2008
We already know that the famously cute story of eBay’s origin - founder Pierre Omidyar launched the site to help his fiancee trade the PEZ dispensers she collected - was a lie cooked up by a PR operative. We also know that the company’s vaunted “reputation system” - the foundation of what has long been perceived as a radically new kind of self-organizing and self-policing commercial community - has been crumbling….