Ebay Boycott

(FORTUNE Small Business) -- Ever since eBay (EBAY, Fortune 500) announced changes to its feedback rules and fee structure last week, sellers have been irate, exploding onto message boards and blogs with discussions about how the new policies will affect their businesses. But when the idea of a strike was floated, some sellers and buyers decided to get more organized about expressing their displeasure.
A discussion thread on eBay's own forums with the title "Sign the pledge_no sales Feb 18-25!" has received 4,000 posts in nine days, many expressing members' intentions to join the boycott. The strike is scheduled to overlap eBay's planned Feb. 20 launch date for its new policies, which include fee hikes, a 21-day hold on some funds sent through its PayPal payment service, and disallowing sellers from leaving negative feedback for their buyers

Below is a list of links to sites about the Ebay boycott and strike.

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?start=0&threadID=1000636290&anticache=1211943433673

http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/15/smbusiness/ebay_strike_update.fsb/index.htm

http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/02/ebay-boycott-3.html

http://www.powersellersunite.com/

http://blog.auctionbytes.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2008/2/1203209274.html

http://digg.com/business_finance/Ebay_Sellers_Boycott_gains_traction_competing_sites_grow

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9874447-7.html

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/corporatenews/2008-02-24-ebay-strike_N.htm

http://mashable.com/2008/02/27/ebay-boycott-extended/

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/02/20/ebay-boycott-having-minimal-effect