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Great piece. Sellers are definitely getting more & more frustrated with eBay's 2008 seller policies that started in January but were not fully implemented until May. I'm not sure if this is the same article that the piece seems to reference but Business Week did an October article entitled the Growing Frustrations of eBay Sellers at http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/oct2008/sb20081021_503608_page_2.htm

If you are frustrated with eBay's seller policies & still haven't given up on them, there's a petition to pressure & boycott eBay's changes with its seller policies at http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/boycott-ebay-for-fair-seller-policies if you'd be interested in joining. My mother is a small, at-home seller, but her frustrations encouraged me to sign up and at least try to make some sort of difference with eBay. The petition is challenging the following -- all sellers having a lowered listing fee; a higher final value fee; and no recourse when it comes to fraudulent, non paying bidders as sellers won’t be allowed to leave any negative or neutral feedback for any buyer. I'm trying to help spread the word.

Thanks from a cold day in Chicago.