Is It Too Late To Make Money On eBay?

Written by Brett Smith

Wednesday, 02 April 2008 09:03

One can not fail but be astounded by the train of thought exhibited by Brian Burke of eBay. He says, to quote him verbatim "Digital goods are often reproduced at little to no cost to the seller. On eBay, this creates the potential for Feedback Manipulation (both real and perceived)".

To speak to the costs of reproduction, One wonders what he might say to the concept of drug companies spending untold amounts of money on research and development, then being able to manufacture their product for nearly nothing. This of course, does not change the fact that large amounts of money have been spend on the development of the product.

Since when does the cost of production have anything to do with the viability and demand of a product? It can take months to actually launch a digital product. Does all the product creation and pre-launch involved in getting a product to market account for nothing? I've personally purchased low priced ebooks that were extremely informative and would've paid more for the information had they asked.

Is eBay claiming I was somehow abused because I got a good product at a low price? Wasn't it their developers that created special digital delivery enabled listings by meeting with and discussing the benefits with the eBay selling community?

And as for feedback manipulation. The opportunity for bad feedback is still there even if you sell something for 1 cent. I gave a scathing review of a book I only paid $.99 for. I didn't think it was worth the $.99. Do you think the seller enjoyed that feedback? I've purchased digital products for much, much more money and in a few cases they weren't worth the money. It can happen no matter what you pay.

eBay's listings, of course are not free. The seller has to pay in order to list his or her products.

As for me, I am still at a loss to explain why eBay would seemingly want to destroy an industry over a problem with more than one simple, easily implemented solution. eBay is in the business of providing a service. This service is advertised as being an effective way to sell and promote products and services at a low price. eBay has now decided that entrepreneurs that have created products to fill niches in their service are exploiting them.

One such method would be to simply discount feedback that came from items selling under a particular threshold, or not allow feedback at all under a certain price.

It is hoped that eBay will soon revise this policy which is doing such damage to many of their users. There have certainly been adverse effects to businesses utilizing eBay as a venue for their wares from negative feedback - however, as stated above, there is in fact an easy solution to this. The digital segment of the eBay marketplace is growing quickly, and as with any other market segment, opinions may vary as to the products themselves.

Let's work to get Ebay to be realistic, humane, and simply use good business sense and straighten this out.

My 2 cents worth,

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