Depends on who you’re reading or listening to I suppose.
This is one chart from Powersellersunite.com;

And it’s only for one day – today. There was a point, around 10am, that they had fallen about 900,000 for the day.
I think this graphic might be a bit more telling. Its from Tues., Feb. 19th;

This tells us that eBay’s listings have fallen over 2 million in the last two days. Do you think that’s a result of a boycott? There are other factors…
“eBay had a special offer last Wednesday (the 13th) on listing fees which caused a surge in traffic. Because of …read more

From “eBay Bans Sellers from Leaving Negative Feedback for Buyers” at Auctionbytes;
“eBay said the current system prevents buyers from leaving honest Feedback as they fear retaliation from the sellers if they leave a negative. ‘This makes it hard for buyers to distinguish between sellers while making bidding or buying decisions. In addition, when buyers receive negative Feedback, they reduce their activity in the marketplace, which in-turn harms all sellers.’”
eBay’s rationale for the changes are:
One, Buyers will be more honest when they leave Feedback since they will not fear retaliatory negative Feedback.
Two, Buyers will bid more and higher since their trust …read more

This appears to be a lesson in how to pi** off the most folks in the shortest period of time… outside of politics :)
I say this because something piqued my interest (a phone call from Auction Success Group which is now another topic for another time) so I decided to do some research and wound up reading through a lot of PO’d folks articles and comments beginning with CNNMoney.
There I found links that led me to articles like this;
“Bargainland was once one of eBay’s highest-volume PowerSellers, moving tens of thousands of items a month through the auction site. The company’s …read more