News eBay bans digital downloads

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/04/03/ebay_bans_digital_downloads/1

In an effort to stem the tide of feedback selling which has been going on since about a week after the site launched, eBay has moved to prevent the auctioning of digital downloads.

 

ebay exists to make money. If their increase in profits offsets any loss of business due to the rule changes then they come out ahead and are happy with the change. We either play along or find a different place to sell.. and while there are a lot of other choices, very few come close to the customer base that ebay offers.

 

A possible solution would be to show the value of a trader's sales & purchases with their rep. High rep, low money changing hands = dodgy.

 

I'd like to see a permanent history of all transactions by the seller or buyer. As it is now, the history is deleted or expires too quickly.

 

They need to do something about all the fake feedback accounts. Until then, I won't ever use ebay for anything other than rare music albums.

 

I didn't even know there was digital downloads on eBay.
You have an extra http:// in the link to the forums.

 

I am pretty sure that there is minimum turnover to make power seller status. If you manage to make over $1,000 a month selling eBooks then you deserve a power seller rating.

 

ebay is doing more and more to p*ss off their customers, wtb some competition for them.

 

and if you remove that, it redirects you to wikipedia (well, it did for me :s)

Edit:
Oh i deleted the http:// at the front, but the second is http//