ebook fuckers got fucked

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Nice to see them apparently cracking down on all the ebook crap on there, although I bet it's the little guys that get the shit and the big powersellers keep getting away with it (and lining eBay's pockets), they pick and choose which policies to enforce anyway.

Shame about domains - this will put an end to the silly bargain ones now - and the other products. Sounds like it's gonna fuck up musicians and digital artists too.

Someone needs to break eBay's monopoly... they really really need some decent competition. (Come on Google...)
 


read the threads on warrior forum, there's a link to official announcement.

HarveyJ said:
AT first I didn't believe this because no one was linking back to eBay or a reputable media outlet with the story, but it's cropping up everywhere, so it probably has some truth to it.

I'm in the "about bloody time" boat.
So sick of seeing pirated material on eBay cluttering up listings for items that are totally different from what the stuff is... Or those stupid "lists of wholesalers for X".
I don't need a list of wholesalers! Wholesalers don't sell individual units! I just want a single, goddam X, and I want it without having to set up another account!

But yeah, I'd also like to see eBooks off eBay as well.
If they're not pirated, why can't you get a real damn site, or sell it through Amazon, lazy twats?

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Well there goes my first success online. $800 / month just went poof. My next product idea (digital audio) is going sell alright on CDs anyway, but digital delivery is way better for sales, profit margins, and saves customers about half the cost (not to mention they get instant gratification).

I agree that something had to be done about all the crap being shoveled with .01 cent wallpapers and eBooks, but banning all digital delivery outright is fucking archaic and lazy.
 
Lucidity: Not really. eBay was not intended to be a store for people originally.
It was meant to be an auction house for people to get rid of their old crap.
Now, I know it evolved into something which is now used for proper store front, which is the lazy part really. However, the point is that it was always intended for transaction of physical goods, not services.
Digital content isn't a "good", there's nothing tangible about it, it's provision of a service.
 
HarveyJ said:
Lucidity: Not really. eBay was not intended to be a store for people originally.
It was meant to be an auction house for people to get rid of their old crap.
Now, I know it evolved into something which is now used for proper store front, which is the lazy part really. However, the point is that it was always intended for transaction of physical goods, not services.
Digital content isn't a "good", there's nothing tangible about it, it's provision of a service.
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Does it matter today what the site was intended for in 1998, when digital distribution wasn't nearly as viable or proven as it is today? If it was always intended for physical goods, why did eBay implement a built in digital delivery system and offer it as a delivery option all these years?

If you read the reason stated for the new policy posted by the Global Feedback Manager, it was to combat feedback manipulation through the buying and selling of sub $1 auctions. There are several easy ways they could have put a stop to these types of auctions without banning all digital goods outright. Maybe eBay did just want to end all digital distribution and used this as the excuse, but for the stated objective, their policy change was a lazy approach. It also doesn't address the remaining sub $1 auctions also primarily used for feedback manipulation that aren't digital.
 
axxomarketing said:
ebook fuckers got fucked
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Not all of us, genius.

HarveyJ said:
Lucidity: Not really. eBay was not intended to be a store for people originally.
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Then who the fuck was it for? Robots? Aliens?


Anyone who wasn't using ebitch err, I mean eBay, to generate a shit-pot full o' cheap lead gens for your affiliate shit is clueless anyway and the new regs won't mean shit.

everyone else will adapt.


Gumby!
 
I should add to my above post that eBay is being typically vague on the actual terms of this. So my comments about websites, domains etc. may be incorrect (note that eBay support actually responded to a query that websites etc. were effected but later public comments by eBay seem to contradict this.)

Never fear though, eBay is hosting a workshop on the new policies on the 11th of April - ten days after they take effect.


Frank
 
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