Many online businesses got their kick start on eBay, then if they were making money and wanted to hang on to more of it, they got out and created their own ecommerce sites.

Now that eBay is changing the rules yet again - without consulting with sellers or buyers - the sellers who haven’t cut themselves loose are in trouble.

And they’re not going to take it, as the video shows.

Planned Boycott Of eBay Proves Harm Of Monocultures - David Berlind’s Tech Radar - InformationWeek notes:

“Sellers have no interest in going to a site where there are hardly any buyers. Buyers aren’t terribly interested in wasting their precious time on sites where there aren’t many sellers. To eBay they all go and the result is exactly what happens when any monoculture exists: a monoculture’s rules can change and there’s pretty much nothing its customers can do but suck it up.

EBay knows this. The reason it’s ‘not worried about the explosive reaction among sellers’ is because it knows those sellers don’t have much choice.”

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