eBay Feedback Withholding - No More - eBay Feedback 2.0 Has Arrived to Save Sellers from Themselves

“I paid you, you left me good feedback, I feel better because this means the seller I bought from cares enough to make some sort of effort to let me know that he appreciates my trust”. This is how I felt about feedback in the early days, and this is what I think eBay is trying to foster with the recent and seemingly radical change in the feedback system.

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eBay - Buy.com - Randy Smythe’s Blog Scoops Story of “Partnership”

Randy Smythe of “My Blog Utopia”  broke a significant story in his blog today.  The story invoves the not so subtle tilting of eBays “Level Playing Field”. 
If you have not yet read Randy’s blog post, please do so now…
eBay Partners With Buy.com
Then come back here and watch what Pierre Omidyar (creator of eBay) said in plain, unmistakable language concerning [...]

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eBay competition springs like weeds - 7 day shelf life good for search?

Once again, I was reading eBay Ink (the comments section) and the comments have been keen and well delivered. I started to reply with a comment, but it turned into a blog post…thus I felt placing it here more appropriate.
eBay & Competition & Search
With the spring, like weeds across the fields of Ethernet-connected computers, comes [...]

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eBay Ink - New Blog or Same ole eBay? Usher Lieberman Thanks for Trying!

After posting my most recent article about eBay North American GM Stephanie Tilenius and her answers to my Digital Download questions at Catalyst 2008…
I wanted to be sure I was not too harsh and had presented the case from a sellers perspective fairly.  I am not an eBay basher and would prefer to work towards [...]

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