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Collectible Sellers: Brief But Excellent Overview Of EBAY's Future Direction
storm888
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"...it's telling that just 37% of eBay's marketplace volume came from the United States in its latest quarter. Acquisitions and international expansion have helped mask a company that while growing -- even domestically -- is actually dying inside...."
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Now, if PayPal can figure out a way to actually PROTECT sellers in
international transactions, we will all be just fine.
So far, all that has happened is that the "WorldWide" has been taken
out of the "WWW." I am pretty smart/stupid about what needs to
happen to fix EBAY, but I - like EBAY/PayPal - remain fairly clueless
about EXACTLY how to solve the seller protection problem.
The ONLY thing I can come up with is for PayPal to bite the bullet and
become a regulated bank that can offer the same kind of direct C2B
bank-transfers that are available across most of Europe. Such transfers
offer very limited recourse for buyers, but the fraud rates - in ALL types
of transactions - are a tiny fraction of those enabled by PP.
Online selling IS likely the future, but EBAY - and the small American sellers
that built it - may not be part of that future, if the company cannot SAFELY
open the international market to those sellers.
Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
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