Nintendo / Sega import converters now banned on ebay

I have always suspected that ebay has a backdoor deal with some electronics manufactuers to squash certain kinds of auctions that would bring prices to true market levels. Thats why I believe John Donahue got his job, not because he is a good executive that can promote sales growth, but because he is a good protectionist executive that can keep the "heat" off ebay. I can't explain it exactly, but I do know that many legal items are pulled or flagged causing a seller a headache for no reason. I believe in the next 20 years the resale market for used consumer goods will be on its last legs, due to scams being set up behind the scene to prevent the resale of used goods. Big companies hate that people can legaly resell their used items, so they make up all kinds of crazy rules and sometimes just sue people over and over to bankrupcy, despite not having a case The only shot USA consumers will have to fight will be in the hands of the supreme court.

 

Seriously, lets make a games-only ebay.

The secret is not half-assing it, I've seen a lot of "auction" sites that were just a crappy e-commerce installs with lots of bugs and bad graphics.

 

+1 :thumbsup: I'd use it.

 

Put your money where your mouth is and get on with it, then.

 

I can put $10,000 for seed funding, how much do you have buddy?

 

I wouldn't put a penny toward setting up an online auction service dedicated to gaming. Feel free to piss all your (imaginary) seed funding into the wind, though. While we're in the realms of pure fantasy, could you buy me a house? I'll pay you back with the pot of gold I find at the end of a rainbow.

 

The more crap you talk the more I see you don't know shit about funding, startups or the auction market. Do I've to remind you that ebay was the only company not to lose during the dotcom bust? thats because they actually make a profit, unlike twitter.

And $10k is standard fare in seed funding. What? is it too much money for you?

 

From this we can deduce a couple of pretty amusing things things:
1/ you think this game auction service would be as successful (and therefore as financially stable) as ebay
2/ you still labour under the delusion that you're some kind of big shot businessman

What you're proposing already exists (gamegavel.com, you'll note it's pretty dead over there), and has been tried and failed before (videogameauctions.co.uk). Assuming anyone was crazy enough to give you some investment capital for this, they'd never see ROI. It's just another of your hairbrained schemes, like that portable with dual SH4s or whatever other nutty shit you claimed you were "developing".

 

The problem with a game only auction site is the fact that most people on ebay who sell games, don't just sell games. They sell all sorts of crap cluttering up their homes, and games just happen to be a part of that. So theres no real incentive for them to join another auction site, to be limited in what they sell. And the people who deal only in games, will know what things are worth, so there go your bargain hunting buyers.

Any auction site wishing to take on ebay has to at least offer the same kind of service ebay does, or its doomed to failure from the start.

 

You really have shit for brains do you? we're already discussed gamegavel, its a me-too company, they pretend they have a chance while their IP is so bad it makes obsolete ebay look modern.

The fact of the matter is that I see a lot of douches like you saying "it cant be done" yet every failed example they bring is the same dingy little site put together with the cheapest ecommerce install available.

Thats like trying to compete with facebook using geocities, get it? you have to bring something new to the table, you cant keep doing to same old shit over and over and expect different results.

And FYI what we were planning to use was a SH3707, a SoC, not a dual-core, shithead.

 

So this

is mostly based on this topic and so the fact that ebay is banning more and more dev/beta/clone/converters and so on stuff?

I can pretty much garantee that the gaming auction walhalla you or somebody else here on this board would set up no matter with how much funds! would if it were to grow big and be a hit bow to the same rules withing 5-10 years after facing law suits from several gaming related companies.

So what do we end up with in the long run? yup a gaming only ebay with the same limitations.. :thumbsup:

 

ebay has been going nowhere, wonder why since mayer is such a great CEO[/sarcasm]

The situation right now is like search before google: it was yahoo and other minor players, and all of them were the same, they sucked. But what could you use instead?

Is the same inaction inside ebay what drives them to knuckle-under all the time. On the other hand you have youtube which was full of blatant copytheft, yet managed to steer clear of viacom's lawsuit.

 

Youtube will probably face the same crap when everything goes HD, until recently all those crappy quality movies were no big thread to companies and in some cases even a free way of promotion for the real thing.

Auction sites only work if it's used by almost all 'locals' or with a worldwide audiance like ebay, therefor having enough to offer and active use.
Not to forget protection/insurance even if in reality it sucks in reality helps people over that last bump.

No matter how much money you throw at it, it will always depend on a freak wind to blow your way and a major userbase finding it and staying there. At this point tho, you will find yourself in the situation the spotlights are pointing your way and so grey/semi/illigal stuff needs to be filtered out to protect yourself.

 

The youtube thing was settled just recently, what I'm saying is that as early as the service began they received those lawsuit accusations from media companies. The difference with ebay is that they just dont care: they didnt even cared to update their system when amazon went after them and took a big chunk off.

ebay is still a web1.0 company, things have changed, people use real names on the web now and that alone could be a game-changer if used properly.

Is not about money for funding, even if you could get a VC to give you an A round of $50 million it would mean nothing if theres no competitive product.

 

So you'll revolutionise online auctions. Keep dreaming.

Touch a nerve there, did I?

How about you list all your successful commercial projects, then? Or is it all hot air?