{"id":192,"date":"2008-09-25T18:37:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T00:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/?p=192"},"modified":"2008-09-25T18:37:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T00:37:52","slug":"holy-autocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2008\/09\/25\/holy-autocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy autocracy, Batman!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having been a seasoned eBay<\/a>er from my early excursions on the newly minted inter-net to present, it’s starting to sadden my auction browsing experience. <\/p>\n

Since eBay ditched it’s latest CEO for a new, fresh CEO, the company has taken some fairly drastic steps to change it’s business model while cutting away the almost utter devotion most avid users had for the service\/community it created.<\/p>\n

It has been slowly evolving. First they raise prices for things, which justified or not almost always happens with any floundering and\/or greedy business. <\/p>\n

Next they decided to take away the voice of reason that many a trustful and honest eBayer relied on, the positive\/negative feedback tool. Now a seller cannot complain about a deadbeat buyer, but the buyer can continue to blast you as a seller without real visible recourse.<\/p>\n

The latest indiscretion is what really makes you wonder what will come next. Now eBay is insisting that you ship products out for a set price, no mind whether the time\/energy to ship at that price is even relevant. <\/p>\n

I’ve read that eBay is trying to cater to the larger sellers on eBay with it’s fees and Buy-it-now auctions, but with all the changes and the utter disregard for the small time buyer\/seller, eBay is cutting it’s core audience to the bone. <\/p>\n

They are slowly morphing into a online storefront. Gone will be the entertainment and candor of possibly the first internet e-tailer that really had a compelling reason for people to get on the internet and buy\/sell almost whatever you could dream up on a site originally dealing with Pez<\/a> dispensers.<\/p>\n

It annoys me and I can see myself shying away from the site due to this continued behavior. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having been a seasoned eBayer from my early excursions on the newly minted inter-net to present, it’s starting to sadden my auction browsing experience. Since eBay ditched it’s latest CEO for a new, fresh CEO, the company has taken some fairly drastic steps to change it’s business model while cutting away the almost utter devotion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}