Quoted in full from his blog:
eBay is apparently doing everything it can to discourage the kind of
auction-based digital flea market it so gloriously was in its
beginning. It's becoming increasingly difficult to use, that way, and
many buyers and sellers of wondrous fifth-hand hyper-specialist gomi
are getting very discouraged. A market is being created, thereby, for a
purpose-built all-gomi auction site, optimized for people who want
(nay, need) to buy and sell, say, anonymously designed 20th-century
American workwear, one piece at a time. Or, really, whatever. Used.
Gomi. Junk. Clinically otaku-searchable, no fuzzy logic messing with
your carefully refined strings. Micro-transactions. For dropshipping of
boring new merch, there'll always be eBay.
The business model, basically, would be what eBay was about eight years ago.
The business model, basically, would be what eBay was about eight years ago.
I know some former eBay folks feel the same way. Think he'd fund a startup?
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