Ebay refused to take down the libelous statements. They said that they “investigated” the seller, but the seller was running the same scam after the “investigation.”

I had to try seven or eight times before ebay would cancel my account. Dishonest sellers and ebay’s inaction are the main reasons why most buyers have left ebay.

My mother sells used library books & other garage sale finds on eBay. It’s a full-time job for her, but she describes herself somehow as semi-retired. I think it’s the work from home aspect & it allows her the flexibility to volunteer on-call with a hospice agency. Typically she’s selling unique items & books at $1 auctions & crossing her fingers that they go up from there. She’s been filling my ear with her frustrations with eBay as they favor the small time seller less & less these days. It seems the policy changes favor the Dell computers, other refurbished re-sellers, & large volume sellers rather than the person at home on a desktop.

She’s been thinking about switching to another site but wonders if she can take the challenge of re-launching her sales to something new & wonders if she can even sell with something with less traffic volume as so many of her titles are so random and unique. Wanting to help, I signed up to a website organizing folks to pressure & boycott eBay’s changes in small-time seller policies at http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/boycott-ebay-for-fair-seller-policies if you’d be interested in joining too.

Thanks.