eBay Strike

The writer's strike is over and other people in the country are now striking for a different reason.

The eBay strike is affecting people even in the Capital City.

"When I heard this I went ok, wait a minute, this is not right," said eBay striker Cheryl Tindle.

In late January, eBay informed people changes were in store.

"Sellers can no longer leave negative feedback for buyers who don't pay, so sellers aren't happy with that," said Kevin Bittner, owner of iSOLD it on eBay in Topeka.

Some changes were positive, like dropping gallery fees, but those were overshadowed by the negative, like the final value fee jumping to almost nine percent, a three and a half percent increase, angering some eBayers and leading them to an eBay strike.

"It really is a culmination of buyers and sellers stepping up and saying we need to do something with eBay," Bittner said.

The planned strike originally started mid-February and ends Tuesday, but now it's continuing indefinitely.

"eBay, if it were managed correctly, can still be that great marketplace that everybody is looking for," Bittner said. "But with the concerns we have with the ability of eBay just to raise rates and not have any accountability to the public, it just needs change."

eBay says sellers will see a decrease in the cost to list their items, at the same time making buyers happy on the new feedback policy.

But the question is whether or not the public buys what eBay is selling.

iSOLD it on eBay is a company not affiliated with eBay but is in fact one of the biggest sellers on the site.

The new fee changes took effect this past Wednesday; however, the feedback policy won't go into effect until May.