<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, ebay live]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, ebay live]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/ebaylive http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/ebaylive <![CDATA[Seller goes nuts at eBay Live]]> EBay sellers don't like the fact that buyers can rate them, but they can't rate buyers. Especially since eBay charges sellers with low ratings more. At eBay Live in Chicago, this animosity spilled over as one seller, caught here on video, screamed at eBay employees on stage: "Open your eyes! Nobody's here! You're putting sellers out of business!" The clip, after the jump.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5018403&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[eBay demolishes "level playing field" for Buy.com]]> On eBay, some merchants are now more equal than others. eBay signed up Buy.com to sell on the site with a special deal: no listing fees, a perk which has allowed Buy.com to litter the site with junk listings like a single AA battery — an offering that makes no economic sense under the rules that apply to other eBay sellers. That goes against the site's core principle of a "level playing field," reiterated here by founder Pierre Omidyar, in an interview with current CEO John Donahoe, just two months ago.

In the video, Omidyar talks about how retailers shouldn't be rewarded "by virtue of their stature outside the online community." And yet isn't that exactly what eBay has done for Buy.com? Donahoe is set to address eBay sellers in a keynote Friday morning at its annual eBay Live conference. How will he explain the Buy.com deal? It will surely take the very best corporate doublespeak — the sort that only a former management consultant can come up with.

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