It's no secret that a growing community of former and current eBay users have been frustrated in recent years with eBay's (some say misguided) attempt to position itself as an online retailer like Amazon.com rather than a user-to-user medium for connecting buyers to sellers who then complete transactions on their own terms, apart from eBay's influence.
Here are two stories that illustrate the ongoing difficulty. The first is a buying experience showing the risk involved in having buyers think they're buying from "eBay" rather than from individual, unique sellers with varied fulfillment track records. The second is a selling experience showing how star ratings like the DSR system can be fraught in a context, like eBay's, originally designed to facilitate user-to-user trading rather than ecommerce retailing. More at:
• TameBay
• AuctionBytes
Here are two stories that illustrate the ongoing difficulty. The first is a buying experience showing the risk involved in having buyers think they're buying from "eBay" rather than from individual, unique sellers with varied fulfillment track records. The second is a selling experience showing how star ratings like the DSR system can be fraught in a context, like eBay's, originally designed to facilitate user-to-user trading rather than ecommerce retailing. More at:
• TameBay
• AuctionBytes
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