Unfortunately, and I think we have all said it before, Ebay's business model for the future is apparently to be an Amazonesq type on-line mall, they have tried this in varying degrees on other sites they own and it failed, so now it would appear they are trying to "convert" EBay by stealth into the aforementioned, what they do not realise is it will never work that way.
EBay lets look at it this way, if you remove all the Mom and dad sellers, and all the mom and dad buyers looking for quirky, unusual, hard to get items or those that need a bargain in this economic clime, and replace them with larger enmasse impersonal businesses, and Chinese sellers of fake and shoddy merchandise with inflated postage and NO recourse what do you have? Sure your raking in the fees from these shonks, but your fees could and would be matched and exceeded if you work on getting back to your roots, not to mention your reputation would stop taking a massive hit.
You have a flailing business that was once one of the greats, roll back some of the ludicrous changes, think clearly about how things have gone downhill since the changes, head back to the beginning and have a good rethink where it all went wrong, everyone else can see it.
Contrary to what some EBay exec's believe we are FOR EBay, we want EBay to succeed, because if EBay succeeds, we all prosper, listen to your core, enough lies about what some obscure focus group said that has no real bearing on the real members, listen to us with an open mind, hear us and together we all move forward.
