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Angry eBay store-owners have vowed to continue their fight against fee hikes after the end of their five-day protest yesterday.
A spokesperson for the Campaign of Rebuffed Ebayers, which asked sellers and buyers to boycott the site between Thursday and Monday, said it would be arranging more demonstrations to promote eBay competitors such as Ebid, Tazbar and Amazon.
“We would imagine that the next protest will have a very international flavour to it,” he said.
The latest protest focused on fee increases introduced by the auction giant in August, as well as the appearance of ‘scam listings’ on the site, reducing ‘genuine’ sellers’ visibility. Its organisers encouraged users to report dodgy listings to eBay in the hope that they would be cleaned up.
eBay, for its part, has remained silent after the protest – not generally a wise PR strategy but one that makes it difficult to judge the size of the demonstration’s impact. It declined to release details of sales activity over the five days, but its listings figures did show a drop in the availability of popular items such as books, DVDs and CDs on ebay.co.uk.

Posted: 09|20|06 at 7:26 am. Filed under: UK News.