eBay sellers plead with Google to launch on-line auction site
Published August 16th, 2006
Irish Auction Info
An online group of eBay merchants called “Google we need an auction site.†Has been growing rapidly over the past few days. Their newly formed Google group can be found online at: http://groups.google.com/group/auctionplease
The description of the group reads “We are eBay store owners who have been “dismissed†by eBay through extreme rate hikes. We are searching everywhere for a new “home†and Google is the ONLY name on the Internet which we feel would be totally trustworthy and would actually get auction traffic and get it quickly.â€
This is a new twist on the usual merchant reaction to an eBay price increase. Following past price increases, eBay sellers would try to rally support for alternate auction venues such as Yahoo! auctions, only to discover that there was little traffic and fewer sales. Each of these calls to rebellion although well intentioned were not financially viable for sellers. After many price increases, eBay still remains the most popular on-line auction site.
In this latest incarnation of rebellious eBayers, sellers are not looking for an existing online auction system to adopt, they are asking Google to build them one.
