EBay: The OS for E-Commerce?

Why exactly did eBay hire two Physicists and an anthropologist for their R&D lab? Where exactly are they going to add value? Often enough organizations go outside of their realm to develop new ideas and fostering creativity by diversity, but it seems like Ebay has taken an extreme wrong turn into diversity in education and not in mind set. Diversity of mind can be achieved successfully in a group of computer scientist if the hiring decisions are well made; however, the education of some of the mentioned member is too far removed from the internet to be viewed by any person as having the background experience and bases needed to create viable and sustainable new idea for eBay and the web. But then again, everyone needs a job and eBay’s $1.3 billion in cash assets is a good place to start a charity. 
    Cheerfully by Brian Glassman
Innovation Management
Commercialization of technology

How utterly devastating. I find this article deeply troubling. It is to ebay what The Halloween Papers were to Windows XP-- a rare glimpse into the guts of the machine. Many, many thanks for bringing it to light. I now see the delusions are company wide, systemic... and terminal. I now have all the answers I need. It is decision time.

As I've pointed out before, ebay is modeling themselves on the ipod mania of 2005, a once-in-a-lifetime blip that has come, gone, and will never return. Whenever any ebay personnel discuss their new changes, the word 'ipod' invariably surfaces. 2005 will no more happen again than Q4 1999 will. By the time they wake up and smell the coffee it, and they, will be burnt to a crisp. Well, I have to make certain that I'm not.

This buzzword bingo jacka55 has been given the keys to my income? Here I was tiptoeing around, waiting for the dust to settle but no more. It's not going to settle till the bank padlocks the door. "Over the next year???" Next year I'll be in foreclosure with these sellthru rates, and now I see why. Ebay I am outta there.

I'm gonna wrap up loose ends, get a couple engines crated up and shipped, and button up this whole operation. Then I'm gonna send each and every one of my 600 customers (yup, saved all them addy's JUST LIKE YOU EBAY) a first class, hand addressed letter explaining where I'm to be found. 'Cause here's the deal, people:

ENABLE THE TRANSACTION FIRST. ANALYZE IT SECOND. MANIPULATE IT *NEVER*.

Ebay got lucky when they found a way to bridge the gap between compulsive hoarders and avid collectors. Got lucky and nothing more. This article does not honor that. This article is the bendy arm that slaps itself on the back. There must be a full length mirror in every cubicle, these people are so lousy with pride.

Don't get me wrong-- I am ALL FOR business intelligence as it applies to post mortem analysis. But ebay's manipulative, meddling approach to transactions is wrong, wrong wrong. It's not science, it's putting bugs in a jar and watching them fight-- then presenting the results as entomology.

They will fool only the stupid.

What I said in the past, I take back-- I no longer hope Warren Buffet buys ebay. He is much too patient. I hope PAUL ALLEN buys ebay-- and runs them like his Cable Company. I would pay-per-view to watch those self-congratulatory little developers breaking a sweat, squirming as they're forced to roll back all the myriad changes they made.

In the technology company I once worked in, there were screwups, but we were always reminded time and time again-- Don't EVER mess with the PROVEN REVENUE STREAM.

Reading this article sealed the deal, insofar as my selling there is concerned.

As Abraham Lincoln once said when a squirrel ran inside a hollow tree that in fact threatened his house--

"I wish I never saw that squirrel."

-permacrisis

While ebay is riding their train (The gravy train) my friends, sellers ,buyers and past customers are leaving ebay.
100's of them and im sure thousands-millions I dont know.
The new search doesn't work, it's not what we want, and they dont provide us the results we ask for when searching.
Ebay needs to fix customer service not the search which worked perfectly fine.
We cant get a straight answer on our questions like if keywords are even gonna be used in new or future searches, which has left us at a standstill.
It's time for many of us to go ,I know, ebay today is not what we signed on for or agreed to.

But my question is while ebay is rolling out all these new innovations that noone on ebay is interested in, where are the sellers gonna move their wares, where are the buyers gonna shop next, what site has ebay opened the doors for because it's clear on the ebay boards that noone wants these changes and their fed up?

Might be a great story for you Wade.

Yes ebay has created for themselves a powerhouse site worth millions, off of the millions paid them by loyal sellers, people who cleaned out their closets and listed their wares for sale per ebays request.
Now ebay is basically telling us that they are better than us and no longer want our class of seller on their site.
Heck were not even worthy of answers to our questions in their eyes.
They wanna play ball with the BIG BIG BIG BOYS on the playground now...Yet ebay is still just an auction site in the minds of anyone browsing the site.
Sure Ipods sell there but why wait 7 days for the BIG BIG BIG boys to ship a product when they can go to the mall and shop with the BIG BOYS themselves for the same price or less TODAY?

The site has become completely untrustworthy, and that is headed by ebay themselves , it's impossible now to navigate, and many sellers items cant even be found , yet we all pay the same fees ...Fair ?

Again my question for anyone reading where will you be shopping ?
Id like to be there with bells on !

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