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HDR Tutorial

Considering the recent eBay fee changes it seems that the small sellers are the last thing on eBay’s list of priorities. They will handing incentives and discounts to the highest volume sellers which is just one example of the new changes in action. The new changes that eBay has adopted is just one more step to the removal of the small time sellers just looking to make a bit of extra cash on the eBay marketplace.

John Donahoe, the successor of CEO Meg Whitman made the following statement about the eBay market place when commenting about the new changes:

John Donahoe:
“A year ago, we had 14 per cent of global e-commerce, we are the largest e-commerce provider, and our home page still looks like a flea market,” he says. “The world around us had changed. In particular our buyers’ experience hadn’t kept up.”

In fact eBay’s rise to power was fueled by the very fact that they could be compared greatly to a flea market style of buying and selling. In essence it was the greatest flea market in the world where you could find virtually anything you could imagine. This was the very essence that drove so many people to use eBay. It was a place where you could find the one item you needed to complete your collection or vintage t-shirt that you could never find in a department store. Likewise, you could sell that old collection of baseball cards or clean out your closet and make a few dollars while doing it. Those very factors made eBay the unique experience that it once was in the past.

I get the sense that the heads of eBay such as John Donahoe have a different view of how eBay should work which is greatly different to the seeds that eBay has grown from. It will be an eBay full of professional department store style vendors that are currently everywhere on the internet to begin with. Therefore eliminating the factor that made eBay an E-commerce giant to start with. Though they can’t just eliminate the smaller sellers directly through constant subtle changes they can slowly weed out those “inefficient” small time sellers in favor of larger professional retail vendors. Therefore just creating another generic online market place full of the same items that you can buy from any other store or website.

It is clear that the eBay market place is suffering considering that nearly 40 percent of auction style listings are not successful, meaning no bids on the items. In my auction experience as a seller I have noticed fewer items listed and fewer bids. Items that I could have started for one dollar now have to be started at their value due to the simple fact that there are just not as many people out there to bid, combined with higher listing fees it makes it a much more costly experience when attempting to sell an item. I believe this only discourages more sellers to just not list items purely because it becomes more of an expense than an income.

People are starting to investigate other options for selling their goods online such as Amazon which has just recently surpassed eBay in numbers of listings for the first time in the company’s history. There are many new auction sites springing up but it will take a well marketed site to take control of the bulk of the online auction business. I have a saying that goes as follows: “Not all of eBay buyers are sellers but all eBay sellers are buyers as well”. It is a simple thing that eBay needs to understand, with every seller that eBay looses they will also be loosing one buyer. I alone can not determine the fate of eBay but I can say that by changing the base idea that eBay was founded on they will lose what made them unique, the very factor that is essential to success on nearly any online business.

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On days like today I find that even though I’ve had my full eight hours of rest, I wake to find myself feeling only slightly different than the evening before. Still tired though it is a different sensation that being in need of physical rest. The feeling I have is more of a psychological need for rest or change. It’s a Sunday afternoon… I’m usually accustomed to working on this day so it is a welcomed change to be liberated from my place of work. Though, it only brings slight comfort seeing as I have to return in a little less than twenty three hours from now.

My collection of Pink Floyd songs serve as my sound track of the day, songs I have heard hundreds maybe thousands of times but they seem to fall perfectly into place with my mood and the atmosphere of the room. The sound of church bells from across town serve as a reminder of the typical attitudes of the people inhabit this small town that I have found myself in. Slow, routine based lives that I relate much to an old cassette tape being rewound each night and played again every morning. I have awoken to these same walls for months and I find myself growing weary with each passing day, I’m weary for some sort of change in my life, I long to see more of the world around me but I feel blinded to my environment, there are a wealth of experiences to be had right here where I live. Though, I seldom step foot out of my front door for anything other than my job. I can’t be a judge of the happiness of others but in my experience it seems that most people find themselves quite comfortable with that way of life. I often ask myself why I can’t just accept that this is life and I should just grow accustomed to working the same job and living in the same place for the rest of my time. Is there something that makes me different? Do others just give up or did they never feel a need for change in the first place? Is there some paradigm that has yet to come in my life where I just accept reality for what it is and move on?