eBay had a chance....fixed priced stores are very popular and eBay could have been the venue to stock all those items.
Better advertising , cleaning up the site of scammers , tools that work , and faster loading pages.......and stop cutting lose places like eBay UK.
At highest levels eBay chose to cut loose all niche players , mom and pop sellers , the people who provided quality services to sellers who loitered on eBay site buying from those niche sellers.
Instead they went with the mass listers , higher value items.......BUT...those niche sellers were "Quality Content Providers" of the eBay site and "Loyal Subscribers" to the eBay service.
eBay cut out an important "Base".......those who provided the best "Content" and were the most "Loyal Subscribers" to the service.
In one fell swoop , eBay cut out those who were most loyal to pay them as well as lowering the quality of content they provided to the fickle masses.

, Its complete folly !
Replaced by mass sellers , fake items , fraud , or just rookies without years of customer service.
Entire niches of lower value items dried up last summer ,sellers migrated ,replaced by worse or unseasoned sellers. These new sellers of course are under greater pressure and have less brand loyalty so they are less likely to put up with eBay's attitude and less capable to survive there.
eBay was once built on winners , now its a Casino built on losers spending.
The masses , the Volk ...now complain that they can't find stuff on eBay ,or they are unhappy with thier purchases.
eBay still turns a profit , Casino's make money , but Casino's rely on customer service to keep people coming back for more and even Casino's pay out sometimes. They demoloish old and tired Casnio's as well as they get replaced by fancier and more posh ones.
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