Ask yourself this. Why is Donahoe dumping so much of his eBay stock on an automatic sale? Go to Yahoo and check the insider trading and you will see the latest dump was on 12/29/10. In the not too distant future I fully expect this guy will disappear abruptly.

In the meantime, for anyone seriously interested in the utter incompetence and deviousness of eBay’s executive management generally, and in particular eBay’s deliberate and demonstrable criminal facilitation of the rampant shill bidding fraud being perpetrated on unsuspecting buyers, by a great many unscrupulous professional sellers via nominal-start auctions, an introduction thereto (along with some PayPal horror stories thrown in for good measure) can be found at http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=6502877

An excellent point that I am writing into a paper on the subject for my MBA. I came to this site as it was quoted in my e-commerce textbook. The general idea of my paper will be that Ebay is so busy trying to become Amazon.com and Craigslist that they forgot who eBay is and who their customers really are.

To contact me, please see my blog.
gatheringstormsahead.blogspot.com

Brenda

See the ‘Matrix’
www,ebuster,co,uk/Matrix/Matrix.aspx?SellerName=girlbiker51

your 100% clean but now try
www,ebuster,co,uk/Matrix/Matrix.aspx?SellerName=mehmet2013
and then ask eBay why they have a problom with you and not this gang.

makes me so angry hope you sort it out.

Well that was some sixteen months ago and since then I have amassed terabytes of data which enable me and a few friends to run off daily financial reports which often turn up irregularities and eBay response when challenged about the figures is to present a wall of silence and to delete any forum posts made as soon as these figures are mentioned.

eBay has so many conflicting figures such as the 233 million world wide members it says it has and you will find that number published all over the place but if you look carefully at other eBay official documents then you discover much more realistic figures and eBay claims in much smaller print that they only have 14 million members in the UK and since eBays US market is only slightly larger than the UK market then even by eBays standards you are left looking a figure somewhere in the region of 30 million and yes I can confirm the figure to be slightly higher if you include anyone that has brought or sold anything during the past 12 months and you also go on to include everyone listed on the first page of feedback for each active member, then sure you can creep above the 35 million figure if you try even longer than I have been counting the numbers.

In reality the true number of active members is much lower than this because eBay is now awash with scammers buying and selling feedback on a massive scale, gangs from China who conduct millions of fake transactions before unleashing themselves onto the general public and that’s before you investigate bidding history on just about any item that has more than ten bids only to discover most the hidden bidders are new, have little or no points as indicated by yellow stars or no stars at all.

Mathematically it’s reasonable to assume that if half the bidders have been with eBay for six months or less then eBay figures would need to be revised down by a factor of 50 percent which bring this once dominant player down to size and this figure is backed up if you consider the amounts reported by eBay for tax purposes even whilst hiding behind Swiss bank accounts and having offices in countries where labour is cheap and laws are somewhat more unpredictable.

Many of EBay’s sellers are quite happy and the reason is simple, it’s because they are not shifting the goods and making a profit like they were able to do a few years ago and to rub salt in the wounds eBay has been treating them with what only can be described as utter contempt.

Watching eBays figures is really a sideline to my main task of catching scammers but as part of the process I been involved in the process of capturing the points, feedback and listings for much of the past year which enable myself and others to monitor the Actual Sales Ratings (ASR) of all the sellers based over a long period of time and I freely admit we have some very good results especially with one (Can not mention names) of the top sellers achieving an ASR well over 50% most weeks with many Buy it now (BIN) selling several time over however these type of sellers are far and few between and the vast majority of big sellers are doing well if they achieve much more than a one percent ASR whilst the smaller sellers tend to do much better and I except this really is quite a bold statement to make, that is if you don’t have the data to back this statement up however anyone including eBay is quite welcome to view the data at eBuster,co,uk for free.

Sorry I nearly forgot to throw into the equations ten of thousands of member names that have been replace by 16-40bit globally unique computer generated numbers (GUID’s) that you may have noticed whilst viewing feedback that look similar to this 12a60c4ae456902da48213345a334b2b33a34533 or the accounts that are ‘No longer a registered User’ NARU

It would not be fair if I didn’t confess that due to technical difficulties with internet connections, eBays servers going slow, or hard drives becoming corrupted that a very small percentage of the data has been missed now and then but I must point out that this small discrepancy only increase the ASR for sellers and have little to no impact on the number of recorded active members.

Outside of eBay I suspect I am one of the few people able to throw any light on the mystical figures repeated all over the internet and my own personal prognosis is something akin to a sinking ship but of course I could be wrong as could be a peer review of these figures so maybe someone with closer connections to eBay should ask eBay to come clean with verifiable numbers and not leaked reports put out by one of the many gatekeepers sites only to be repeated by another ten.

members from the free press are welcome to check this out.

Well that was some sixteen months ago and since then I have amassed terabytes of data which enable me and a few friends to run off daily financial reports which often turn up irregularities and eBay response when challenged about the figures is to present a wall of silence and to delete any forum posts made as soon as these figures are mentioned.

eBay has so many conflicting figures such as the 233 million world wide members it says it has and you will find that number published all over the place but if you look carefully at other eBay official documents then you discover much more realistic figures and eBay claims in much smaller print that they only have 14 million members in the UK and since eBays US market is only slightly larger than the UK market then even by eBays standards you are left looking a figure somewhere in the region of 30 million and yes I can confirm the figure to be slightly higher if you include anyone that has brought or sold anything during the past 12 months and you also go on to include everyone listed on the first page of feedback for each active member, then sure you can creep above the 35 million figure if you try even longer than I have been counting the numbers.

In reality the true number of active members is much lower than this because eBay is now awash with scammers buying and selling feedback on a massive scale, gangs from China who conduct millions of fake transactions before unleashing themselves onto the general public and that’s before you investigate bidding history on just about any item that has more than ten bids only to discover most the hidden bidders are new, have little or no points as indicated by yellow stars or no stars at all.

Mathematically it’s reasonable to assume that if half the bidders have been with eBay for six months or less then eBay figures would need to be revised down by a factor of 50 percent which bring this once dominant player down to size and this figure is backed up if you consider the amounts reported by eBay for tax purposes even whilst hiding behind Swiss bank accounts and having offices in countries where labour is cheap and laws are somewhat more unpredictable.

Many of EBay’s sellers are quite happy and the reason is simple, it’s because they are not shifting the goods and making a profit like they were able to do a few years ago and to rub salt in the wounds eBay has been treating them with what only can be described as utter contempt.

Watching eBays figures is really a sideline to my main task of catching scammers but as part of the process I been involved in the process of capturing the points, feedback and listings for much of the past year which enable myself and others to monitor the Actual Sales Ratings (ASR) of all the sellers based over a long period of time and I freely admit we have some very good results especially with one (Can not mention names) of the top sellers achieving an ASR well over 50% most weeks with many Buy it now (BIN) selling several time over however these type of sellers are far and few between and the vast majority of big sellers are doing well if they achieve much more than a one percent ASR whilst the smaller sellers tend to do much better and I except this really is quite a bold statement to make, that is if you don’t have the data to back this statement up however anyone including eBay is quite welcome to view the data at eBuster,co,uk for free.

Sorry I nearly forgot to throw into the equations ten of thousands of member names that have been replace by 16-40bit globally unique computer generated numbers (GUID’s) that you may have noticed whilst viewing feedback that look similar to this 12a60c4ae456902da48213345a334b2b33a34533 or the accounts that are ‘No longer a registered User’ NARU

It would not be fair if I didn’t confess that due to technical difficulties with internet connections, eBays servers going slow, or hard drives becoming corrupted that a very small percentage of the data has been missed now and then but I must point out that this small discrepancy only increase the ASR for sellers and have little to no impact on the number of recorded active members.

Outside of eBay I suspect I am one of the few people able to throw any light on the mystical figures repeated all over the internet and my own personal prognosis is something akin to a sinking ship but of course I could be wrong as could be a peer review of these figures so maybe someone with closer connections to eBay should ask eBay to come clean with verifiable numbers and not leaked reports put out by one of the many gatekeepers sites only to be repeated by another ten.

John

“Sales are down as a direct reaction to policy changes for sellers. I am a powerseller and my sales are down 70% since the changes last month.”

As you can see your not alone in the least

All these analysts must be having their opinions programmed directly by eBay’s Department of Spin. Gentlemen, stop kidding yourselves, the eBay marketplaces are continuing their journey down the toilet, period! And undoubtedly that will be reaffirmed, once again, on Wednesday. Well done John!

Let me then cut straight to the chase with a simple statement from an ex regular eBay user’s point of view: eBay (aka “the eBafia”) is a criminal organization!

How could that be, you ask? Well, with some effort and some multi-auction analysis, it can be very clearly demonstrated (see the below link) that shill bidding fraud by unscrupulous professional sellers, at least on nominal-start auctions, is rampant on eBay auctions, and the executives “in the know” at eBay, unless they are actually as stupid as they apparently think all we simple consumers are, cannot but be aware of that criminal activity. And yet they do nothing proactive nor truly effective to prevent such criminal activity—indeed, they have done the very opposite, they have introduced a non-unique masking of bidding IDs, which serves no material purpose other than to further obscure such criminal activity and aid and abet said unscrupulous sellers to, by fraudulent means, maximize their sale prices, thus maximizing eBay’s FVF. (It’s even worse in the UK, where buyers have got absolutely no chance of detecting the unscrupulous professional sellers that infest eBay auctions.)

It’s called “criminal facilitation” and, in most civilized countries, anyone who knowingly facilitates such criminal activity is also considered to be a criminal. It’s as simple as that! Is it any wonder that buyers are staying away and this business is now going down the toilet?
http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=6502877

PayPal is a banking-type service, a service that would be more competently carried out under the auspices of the banking community via their credit card company partners. Without the bankers’ knowledge of the entities involved in the transactions, PayPal will always be handicapped—even more so while under the management of such incompetents as those who currently control eBay.

The head turkey at eBay, “Noise” Donahoe, will occasionally talk of the possibility of selling off PayPal because he is just barely smart enough to know that when the major credit card companies do get off their butts and introduce a like card/terminal-less payments system to complement their credit card system, they will do it properly, and the “clunky” PayPal will then sink like a stone—other than, possibly, on what is by then left of the Donahoe-ever-shrinking eBay marketplace.

From an ex buyer’s point of view, an introduction to an introduction to the full sad story at
http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=6503466

Ebay is nothing but a buch of lying thugs. I recomend you leave while you still can. There are many other sites that offer the same survieces one that I would recomend is onlineauction.com I am not curently selling on there but trust me I will be if I don’t see some drastic changes soon.

Hello, My Name is Brenda Rankin eBay ID girlbiker51. I have been a eBay Seller since Sept of this year. Have a 100% Perfect Score, My Bill Always paid, As Quoted by eBay in their personal Rating of me is

“ABOVE AVERAGE”. I just open My Own Combination Neighborhood Ebay Store / Collectibles / Antiques / Surplus. I was Going Like a Rocket, Gaining New Customers Daily from simple housewives to Local Politicians. They would bring ALL Kinds of Stuff for me to List and Sell For them on Ebay. I am 51 yrs old, disabled and my husband is Terminal with Advanced Progressive C.O.P.D. and Heart Disease. This is our ONLY Source of Income. Things were going Great until 7 Days Ago. Suddenly WITHOUT ANY WARNING – EMAIL – PHONE CALL – LETTER or even a MESSAGE Left in my Message Box on Ebay, Everything Came to a DEAD STOP!!! As I was Creating a New Ad and Ready to Submit, I get this note as follows, (actually copy) -

We regret to inform you that your eBay account is prohibited from listing additional items at this time. In order to maintain a safe trading environment, selling limits are occasionally placed on accounts. This selling limit is in no way meant to question your record with eBay or standing within the eBay community. To resolve this situation, please contact eBay’s Safe Harbor Department using the Webworm on the following help page.

We sincerely value you as a member of our trading community and look forward to a continued successful relationship. We appreciate your cooperation in resolving this matter as quickly as possible. {e25288-141474x}

I have sent over a Dozen Emails and Phone Calls to Ebay Asking Why, What Is Wrong, and How Long. For SEVEN DAYS (7) I have yet to receive an answer form ANYONE!

I Have NOT Broken a SINGLE RULE, Not A SINGLE COMPLAINT, Bills All UP TO DATE, Credit Card and Checking Account. I have been investing a LOT of Money Daily getting ready fro the Holidays. My Customer Base was Increasing 3 fold weekly. And Now, we are LOOSING Everything We Have. Besides the Fact I have Lost The RESPECT – TRUST and CONFIDENCE from My Area and Old and New Customers alike. They don’t and won’t believe me when I try to explain I have done nothing wrong. In all my life I have NEVER Been so Humiliated, Disgraced, Shamed and Disrespected like this.

And the Two WORSE Part is, For One, Did Nothing Wrong to Deserve it, Two, No One Warned me and Now for 7 Days of Pleading, Asking and even Begging, for a Answer and or Response, Still Nothing to this Date and Time of Oct. 14, 2009 4:00 pm est. I ask as Humble as I know how, PLEASE, WILL SOMEONE Hear and Listen To My Cry for Help and Seek out Why I have been done in this matter and will I ever be allowed back to Sell Again? We are now preparing to Sell Everything we own and move from the area. We are in Total Disgrace and Without Any Other Customers. This act of Ebay, has Literally DESTROYED Us and Our Business in 1 week. Please, Help. Brenda Rankin at bikerbrenda51@hotmail.,com