Jeffrey McManus, manager of Ebay developer releations replies.
Jeffrey. It isn’t a one-time fee. It’s a per-user $100 fee, plus a multi-phase disconnected registration process that cannot be automated. How much of a percentage drop in purchases could you expect if Ebay charged $100 for a user’s first purchase, no matter what?
NO ONE (in their right mind or otherwise) is going to go through this trouble.
It’s also important to realize that the only people who would use this application are already giving Ebay their money.
Really, what do you have to lose by opening up the read-only methods for all to use for free? I mean, it isn’t as if people aren’t screen-scraping already.
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Really it seems like eBay doesn’t have a clue. They’re basically charging their customers $100 for using Linux, when they provide tools (TurboLister) for free to Windows users. Why support a company like that?
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Characterizing this as a Windows versus Linux issue is a significant leap of logic. It’s also not the case that “no one” would pursue this, since hundreds have to date — see http://solutions.ebay.com.
Do you have the same kinds of discussions with your phone company and ISP? They charge you money, and they charge every person who ever uses your software.
It seems like you are having trouble find $100 worth of value in using the API. Fortunately that’s a use case that we’ve planned for — we have a free, cross-platform way of using eBay today. It is called eBay.com. That has the advantage of working on all platforms.
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Jeffrey,
I’m having trouble seeing any applications on http://solutions.ebay.com , is it possible you posted the wrong link?
Cheers,
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