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Post by staytuned on Dec 9, 2015 15:48:56 GMT
www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2015/12/1449524916.htmlThe comments are spot on. Further proof the higher ups at ebay have no clue what's going on. Bad enough sales stink, last article was how Wenig wants even more Chinese sellers, what used to be a great community of various discussion boards that was destroyed and what little is left is censored by Lithium, it wasn't punishment enough to have DSRs so the "defect" system was implemented, listing doesn't even guarantee your items will be visible and now ebay wants sellers to volunteer their time to teach competition how to sell. Yee haw, let me get right on that.
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Post by kritter on Dec 9, 2015 16:51:36 GMT
 How can they think this would actually be a good idea to experienced sellers? Why would a seller train a new seller who is a complete stranger to compete against them? When donkeys fly, Ebay! |
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Post by RetroMonde on Dec 9, 2015 17:57:04 GMT
I'm gonna chuckle about this all day, lol; thought it was a joke until I read the article and comments. Mentor my competition? Teehee. They're smokin' something good in corporate!
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Post by kritter on Dec 9, 2015 18:30:59 GMT
They seem to be under the illusion that we are all just one big happy family.
I am glad I sold my stock in this company a long time ago.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2015 23:05:42 GMT
They had it until they killed the boards over there anyway. New sellers got several different opinions from sellers like each of us. eBay put a stop to it. Would they censor the mentoring and not for nothing, but whats in it for the mentor?
Um, no thanks eBay, why don't they send their own team to fly over to China and mentor them by themselves!
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Post by kritter on Dec 9, 2015 23:08:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2015 1:14:47 GMT
Unfortunately, there are those who will sign up for this. They will create their own competition.
I feel for all of you full time sellers trying to wade through all this carp ebay throws at you.
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Post by val2525 on Dec 10, 2015 3:49:14 GMT
I agree with Clean. THe old boards were a perfect place for new sellers to go and learn for free. Then eBay killed them when Lithium was hired.
On top of that, there's a difference between mentoring and teaching. At least there is to me. If a new seller has taken the initiative to check out the basic selling info that eBay offers on the site, and has questions, I'm happy to help that seller. Better quality sellers means happier buyers for all of us. To me, helping someone with details and advanced skills, who has done the basics themself, is mentoring.
Taking someone who can't even be bothered to read the basic tutorials on the site and showing them how to sell from scratch? Spoon feeding them? That's teaching, and I expect to be paid for it.
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Post by SA on Dec 10, 2015 12:11:10 GMT
DITTO DITTO DITTO what Val said.
I'm still so confused as to why eBay let Lithium kill their boards. That was the BEST resource out there for this kind of stuff.
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Post by val2525 on Dec 10, 2015 14:46:25 GMT
Lithium was probably the lowest bidder and Live World's contract was up. Donohoe only saw the bottom line, and he only knows how to recognize pennies.
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Post by allikat on Dec 10, 2015 15:12:45 GMT
I worked for a computer company from 1999-2001 and they kept asking me to teach a class on "how to sell on ebay" as I was part time at the computer company and full time ebayer at that point. I refused repeatedly because there was no way that was I training my competition especially locally. There were no other sellers at the company so there thankfully was never a class, I didn't mean to be selfish but I had a good thing going and didn't want to share.
I can see answering a specific question that maybe isn't spelled out clearly or something like that and you can tell the seller has done his homework and just cannot find the answer. But not from ground up.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2015 15:54:48 GMT
Yeah, my jaw dropped a bit after a Blue asked for input on the PSB earlier this week. I was like, AYFKM? I spent an entire month researching/reading everything I could get my hands on before I felt confident enough to list 2 items.
The rest is history...
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Post by unknown on Dec 10, 2015 17:00:13 GMT
Know how badly they hacked up the CAB? Today there are a grand total of 22 pages on that board and they go back to 5/3/15. If you go to the 'archives', everything between when liveworld stopped 12/31/13 and 5/3/15 is totally gone. No posts whatsoever (not that anything important was there but - how do you just slash and burn everything?)
The liveworld archives are down to 111 pages - and, get this, they have a grand total of 6 posts made by me, 5 in 2013 and 1 in 2010. MIND YOU, before lithium came on I had either 17,000 or 19,000 posts to all the boards - and more than 6 were made to the CAB.
They just hacked EVERYTHING. It may be history but history got totally wiped out.
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Post by unknown on Dec 10, 2015 17:16:59 GMT
Compare this attitude by ebay staff to jeff's CS&A Board Thread Archive [ New ] robin@ebay.com Community Member | Posts: 103 | Registered: 01-19-2003 01-25-2005 10:03 PM Hello, This thread is an archive of links to all the great threads from this board. I have locked it so additional posts cannot be made. This is an easy index to all of the wonderful threads created by CS&A posters. Robin Options Message 1 of 3 82 Views 0 Kudos Report Inappropriate Content Re: CS&A Board Thread Archive [ New ] robin@ebay.com Community Member | Posts: 103 | Registered: 01-19-2003 in reply to robin@ebay.com 01-25-2005 10:21 PM Helpful Buying and Selling Guides Information buyers find useful in descriptions The New Handbag Authentication Thread How to take measurements Clothing Label Resouce Page Your Simple Guide to Selling: Clothing, Footwear, Accessories and Personal Care Items Click here for a Buyer Guide, including Glossary of terms. Clothing Style Charts CA Board Clothing Condition Guide A Primer: *seller rules you might not know* Clothing Label Resouce Page Discussions for Fun! Like to chat? Check out eBay Groups Tell a little known fact about yourself When is your Birthday? Check these discussion highlights! ~Introduce Yourself ~ community.ebay.com/t5/Archive-Clothing-Shoes/CS-A-Board-Thread-Archive/m-p/1045662#U1045662 |
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Post by val2525 on Dec 11, 2015 4:06:33 GMT
Yeah, my jaw dropped a bit after a Blue asked for input on the PSB earlier this week. I was like, AYFKM? I spent an entire month researching/reading everything I could get my hands on before I felt confident enough to list 2 items. The rest is history... I agree. I signed up and purchased stuff on eBay for about 3 weeks before I did anything. I wanted to see it from a buyers perspective. I wanted to know what they would see/get from me as a seller. I had one seller I loved - I made her my virtual mentor. She was awesome and I learned a lot from just watching her. I also read all the selling tutorials that eBay had on the site. Why should I mentor someone who won't do at least part of what I did on their own? |
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Post by val2525 on Dec 12, 2015 0:41:51 GMT
Maybe eBay can get their legion of Chinese Sellers to help.
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Post by unknown on Dec 12, 2015 1:22:39 GMT
And another one gone and another one gone, another one bites the dust "Hi Everyone, We truly value the feedback you’ve provided around this idea. It’s clear that we need to reconsider the concept of the program, and we’ll be holding off on pursuing it further at this time. We also recognize that mentorship happens organically on the discussion boards, as well as face-to-face through events like our ebay meet ups. For now, we’ll consider focusing our efforts on encouraging and enabling mentorship through those venues. Thank you." community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Seller-Mentorship-Program-on-eBay/m-p/24883279#M666111 |
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Post by zoesam on Dec 12, 2015 1:32:06 GMT
And another one gone and another one gone, another one bites the dust "Hi Everyone, We truly value the feedback you’ve provided around this idea. It’s clear that we need to reconsider the concept of the program, and we’ll be holding off on pursuing it further at this time. We also recognize that mentorship happens organically on the discussion boards, as well as face-to-face through events like our ebay meet ups. For now, we’ll consider focusing our efforts on encouraging and enabling mentorship through those venues. Thank you." community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Seller-Mentorship-Program-on-eBay/m-p/24883279#M666111
Wow! Ebay actually considers seller's feedback! I'm in shock. Too bad they can't do that about a myriad of other issues with the site. Had they done it years ago, they may not be in the boat they're in. That we're all in :-(.
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Post by val2525 on Dec 12, 2015 2:15:03 GMT
Wenig seems to be very different from Donohoe (thank gawd). Not different enough, however, when it comes to whoring for Chinese business, but that's the topic on the board under this one.
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Post by staytuned on Dec 13, 2015 5:32:16 GMT
I just wonder how many people at ebay thought this was actually a good idea to even try to implement it. That's the sad part that whoever came up with the idea wasn't immediately laughed to scorn.
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