First, I would like to start my blog by saying that I believe in free enterprise.  After all, this is the United States of America, the land where a person can take an idea and run with it! Now Pierre Omidyar founder of eBay, has become one of America's richest people. Now, this blog is not about Mr. Omidyar or about free enterprise.  This blog deals with the simple fact that eBay has gone mad!!!

Three years ago, I began to sell pocket bikes in the internet and I decided to try eBay.  I quickly found out that eBay was a great tool to bring people into my local store.  Sales were good, and eBay fees were reasonable.  A couple of years ago, I decided to close my eBay store to avoid competing with the dealer network that I had established.  Several months ago, I opened a local scooter shop in the city of Pomona, were we sell Kymco, Tank, Verucci and accessories for the rider and the scooter, and I thought to myself, I should do some internet sales to promote the local store. 

I got my eBay ID, opened my eBay store and began putting the scooters in the store.  From prior experience, I knew that placing my inventory in the inventory section of my store was a good idea, since by doing this more people saw what I was selling.  At .08 cents per item in your store, this is a great value. 

I got an email from eBay, informing me that I was in violation of eBay policies.  All of my items in my store were cancelled.  It just happen that eBay created a new section under eBay motors, where you can place the scooter that you are selling and they were now charging 75.00 per each submission.  Imagine that, 75.00 dollars. 

eBay no longer allows that you place your scooters under the inventory section of your store.  They force you to submit your add under the eBay Motors section, so they could charge the ridiculous amount of 75.00 dollars.  I understand that we all need to make some money, I understand the value of advertising, but I also know that 75.00 is a ridiculous amount to charge for posting your add..