On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 07:39 AM, Dennis Tillman W7pF wrote:
It sounds like some of you feel entitled to be treated a certain way by eBay
There are many on-line marketplaces... Amazon, PayPay Mall, Ebay, Alibaba(AliExpress, Taobao) Rakuten, and others... but Amazon has about twice the visits of all the rest put together... while Ebay gets about 1/4 of what Amazon does. Amazon dominates.
One reason why Amazon dominates might be because Amazon was quick to become a buyer's market, with good support for buyers. Ebay was quite slow to do that.
Sellers always complain about Ebay, and Ebay buyers: there's enough of it on TekScopes, and copious threads on Reddit. But then some sellers are still doing the same things that caused Ebay to become a buyer's market in the first place.
The OP on this thread was pondering an alternative to Ebay. I reckon, I don't see one... not with a global reach anyway. It's safe to say, greater than 99% of the population considers what we have as being junk. Certainly, the U.S. government... which originally paid for much of what we have does... and institutions certainly do. Most Ebay competitors don't even list it. So if Ebay stopped listing surplus, where would you sell?
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Roy Thistle
