[Mccoypottery-talk] Please help out the eBay sellers!

[Jennifer Smith]

Folks, I know this is a bit off topic but not really since so many of us buy
and sell on eBay.
On Feb. 18 all fees (especially those for stores) will go up quite a bit.
Some as much as 60%.  This is hurting those who sell items under $25.00
badly as the fees are increases for such things as gallery photos, etc.
I hope that those who sell will stop their auctions as a symbol of unity,
those with stores will close them for ONE WEEK, and those who surf and buy
will spread their wings and try some of the new venues out there such as
Overstock. (http://www.auctions.overstock.com)
By showing a unified front, it is hoped that eBay will see that they need to
roll back these high increases.
Just ONE WEEK, try Amazon, Yahoogroups, iOffer, Overstock, and the other
venues.  You might even want to check out Tias.com, Trocadero.com,
Cyberattic.com, Rubylane.com and the other online store front vendors out
there.
Take this week to explore the world wide internet and you will be astounded
at what you will find outside eBay.
The goal of many of us is to get eBay away from being the ONLY auction
source that has dominated the market and to expand the other sites so
sellers (and therefore buyers because costs are always passed to the
consumer) will eventually have some leverage with eBay.
With them basically holding a monopoly all these years, they can do whatever
they want.  And with their last quarter earnings something like $900 million
dollars, there was no reason other than greed to raise all their prices.

One other thing we are doing as a protest is on February 18 (Friday) we will
be doing a click campaign against eBay.  This is very simple.  Just go to
http://www.google.com and type in something like McCoy Pottery.  On the far
right column there is a list of "Sponsored links".  One of these will be
eBay.com.  Click on that.  Wasn't that fun? It takes you to eBay's pottery
category!  Click back on your browser and try it again!  I know it will be
so much fun you'll want to spend quite a bit of time exploring eBay this
way!  (Now don't forget to NOT bid!).  Every time you click eBay has to pay
Google for the click.  This will show them civil disobedience in their
pocket book.  It is your personal decision to tell eBay that you are against
their new increases!

Thanks!
Jennifer