[Milsurplus] Ebays Fait accompli

[Nick England]

Well, yeah I do love Capitalism - which means that you or anyone else are
perfectly free to start up your own auction site with whatever rules you
want - and if your business model appeals to more people than ebay's does,
then you'll probably make more money than they do. Go for it - if they are
doing such a horrible job then you can just run 'em out of business.
 
Have you not noticed that no one is forcing you to use ebay?
Or perhaps you'd rather have the Ministry of Auctions regulating things?
 
Nick, unrepentantly in favor of freedom

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Subject: [Milsurplus] Ebays Fait accompli


Ebays Fait accompli
 
Well, seems the new Ebay system, paying to list an item, paying a % of final
sold value and forcing one to accept Paypal (an Ebay company) so that your
buyers payment is yet further fleeced by Ebay is perfectly acceptable
according to Trading Standards. They can see nothing wrong in that. 
 
So, three chunks of the pie for Ebay, crumbs and scraps for the punters. 
 
Don't you just love Capitalism?
 
Ben. 
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