Comments on: eBay Death Watch Continues. . . http://www.variousandsundry.com/2008/11/29/eby-death-watch-continues/ The random non-photographic musings of Augie De Blieck Jr. Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:03:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rob Postuma http://www.variousandsundry.com/2008/11/29/eby-death-watch-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-191269 Rob Postuma Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:39:39 +0000 http://www.variousandsundry.com/2008/11/29/eby-death-watch-continues/#comment-191269 Having been an eBayer since almost DAY ONE, as well as someone with a background in marketing - I've been predicting the decline of eBay for a while now. One thing that made eBay so popular was the "community" feeling it once had, when you were buying something very often a few e-mails would be traded between seller & buyer just saying HI back & forth, and more than once sometimes people even shot extra stuff in - it was fun. It also wasn't all stores or resellers selling a mass of extra stock, it was everyday people who normally had no other outlet to sell their goods. Along with all that, was a chance of getting a real bargain on something. Seems to me, that last 2 or 3 years, eBay has dumped this "people having fun at the world's largest garage sale" market, for an easier to manage retailers outlet - with fixed prices - rather than the bargains once had. Maybe what eBay has to do, is focus on making it again - a fun place for people to find lost treasures at. There's still enough people out there that haven't used eBay - that there's still time to bring them into a new and fun experience. This positioning could also be used to bring old eBayers back into the fold. Having been an eBayer since almost DAY ONE, as well as someone with a background in marketing – I’ve been predicting the decline of eBay for a while now. One thing that made eBay so popular was the “community” feeling it once had, when you were buying something very often a few e-mails would be traded between seller & buyer just saying HI back & forth, and more than once sometimes people even shot extra stuff in – it was fun. It also wasn’t all stores or resellers selling a mass of extra stock, it was everyday people who normally had no other outlet to sell their goods. Along with all that, was a chance of getting a real bargain on something. Seems to me, that last 2 or 3 years, eBay has dumped this “people having fun at the world’s largest garage sale” market, for an easier to manage retailers outlet – with fixed prices – rather than the bargains once had.

Maybe what eBay has to do, is focus on making it again – a fun place for people to find lost treasures at. There’s still enough people out there that haven’t used eBay – that there’s still time to bring them into a new and fun experience. This positioning could also be used to bring old eBayers back into the fold.

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