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 Send to email | Crowd control at eBay in General |  By Rough Ty
el 13-Feb-2008 | If over the last decade you have read any of the many books and articles promoting the Net as a new world where people are able to form self-regulating, super-democratic communities, you have no doubt come across glowing descriptions of eBay's feedback system. By providing buyers and sellers with a simple means for rating one another, eBay has been able, we've been told, to avoid lots of rules and regulations and other top-down controls. The...
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| Crowd control at eBay | | If over the last decade you have read any of the many books and articles promoting the Net as a new world where people are able to form self-regulating, super-democratic communities, you have no doubt come across glowing descriptions of eBay's feedback system. By providing buyers and sellers with a simple means for rating one another, eBay has been able, we've been told, to avoid lots of rules and [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-Feb-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| One of eBay's Problems, Illustrated (EBAY) | | eBay (EBAY) users will give you dozens of reasons why eBay has gone to the dogs, and one of them is that the feedback system is all screwed up. A current example would seem to illustrate this point.
The seller who just put Obama's senate seat up for sale on eBay has a 100% positive feedback rating:
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| eBay to offload StumbleUpon |  Having a little bit of buyer’s remorse there, eBay? According to TechCrunch, eBay may be looking to sell off StumbleUpon after acquiring the company a mere 18 months ago for $75 million. An anonymous source claims that eBay has hired Deutsche bank to help them find the right buyer. No asking price has been mentioned [...]
[..] Read complete article | | Published 20-Sep-2008 by Kelly Hodgkins in RumorsServiceseBaysaleStumbleUpon
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| SURPRISE! eBay Price Changes Worked | | The quarter was dominated by howls of outrage from eBay (EBAY) sellers who boycotted the site, screamed bloody murder, etc., over eBay's new fee changes, but the move appears to have worked. As Bear's Bob Peck report [..] Read complete article | | Published 31-Mar-2008 by Silicon in EBAY
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| eBay Traffic Plummeting (EBAY) |  eBay's (EBAY) core business continues to fall apart. Some of the decline is likely the result of the declining economy. The rest of it is likely the result of the trends that have been clobbering eBay for the past two years: [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Nov-2008 by Alley In in EBAY
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Battered eBay (EBAY) is getting an earful from sellers outraged about new feedback and product-search policies. For example, there was the episode below at the recent eBay Live seller conf [..] 
eBay published a legal filing that finally sheds some light on its mysterious Craigslist lawsuit. As the WSJ tells it, here's the story:
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