I saw this at Clark Howard’s site yesterday:
New e-commerce site Glyde promises eBay for dummies
Get ready for eBay for dummies, courtesy of a new e-commerce site called Glyde.
Launched by a former eBay insider, Glyde promises to take all the hassle out of buying and selling online. Sellers can list an item — a CD, DVD or video game, for example — by typing in its title and making a notation about the condition. Glyde then suggests a market value, which can be changed anyway you see fit.
If there’s an interested buyer, Glyde will mail you a pre-addressed, pre-stamped bubble-wrapped mailer and you simply drop your item in the mail within 24 hours. You can then receive a check in the mail from Glyde once the buyer is happy.
The service takes 10 percent for facilitating a transaction. The seller is also responsible for an additional $1.25 for the price of the mailer.
Think of Glyde as NetFlix meets eBay. It takes the complexity out of the whole process. “We want the middle-aged Midwestern soccer mom to easily be able to buy and sell her stuff,” Glyde creator Simon Rothman tells The New York Times. “It’s a pretty straightforward ambition.”
Glyde sounds slow and cumbersome to me.
The comments at Clark’s site are sure brimming with negativity about eBay. 😯
It sounds to me like eBay® is becoming the on-line version of Wal*Mart. Everybody shops there, but few claim to like it.