quote:Originally posted by TazFromPA:
Miss M and JeffS sorry to disagree, but no one thought a little Tea Party in Boston would work either!
Vive le Revolucion!
The difference is, eBay had already planned for, and expected, a decline due to the sh*tstorm this has caused:
quote:Mr Donahoe believes he now has a prescription for this. Over the next few weeks, he said, Ebay would announce a series of changes to its fee structure and to the way its search engine sifts through its millions of listings and chooses which to present most prominently. He warns that this is likely to attract bad publicity in the short term, as some sellers who lose out complain and competitors try to sow confusion. It will also dent the company's earnings this year, with growth falling to about 12 per cent as the company changes its pricing formulae. Yet it was the only way, he added, to promote the site's best sellers and lure more buyers.
http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto012420081906254756
They knew all of this would happen, and are prepared to take the hit, so no amount of boycotting or petitioning will change it.