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Monday, February 25 - 9:34pm

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I couldn't help but think of Atlas Shrugged when I heard that some of the big sellers on eBay were teaming up to go on strike against eBay itself for eBay's revision of various aspects of the site. Well, there are some important differences. While the strikers want eBay to listen to reason, that reason really has more to do with proper management rather than a plea for an invisible hand. And of course eBay is not "the people." They are just a host auction website. But hey; it's a start. I wonder if there's antitrust litigation in the works to shut down those sellers. This strike could shed some empirics on how an Atlas Shrugged Strike (proper) would play out.

http://www.ksnt.com/home/ticker/15930527.html

Jordan

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Tuesday, February 26 - 11:15am

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I don't see how the eBay strike is at all analogous to the Atlas Shrugged strike. However, I too was a bit miffed when I got this email from eBay telling us how they "listened" to their customers and are lowering their insertion fees and "changing" their final value fees (read "raising significantly"!). Like they're doing us all a big favor.

A strike is the proper response, and I hope the result will be that Yahoo will get back into the auction biz with lower fees than eBay. That would cause a stampede over to Yahoo Auctions and put downward pressure on eBay's fees.

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Wednesday, February 27 - 8:26pm

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I was thinking it was like the Atlas Shrugged strike in the sense that it's a supply-side strike.

Jordan

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