eBay digital download auction rule change

To those who are currently auctioning in eBay that are digitally downloadable products – please go read the post in eBay’s announcement section:

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200803.shtml#2008-03-24125416

The reason is that they wish to prevent people to get high feedback rating just because they offered ebooks that sold for pennies! There are people who sells rebrandable digital product, mostly ebooks, or PLRs. With these, the seller could rose to platinum seller status extremely fast due to eBay’s feedback system.

Now, these sellers would have to use the classified ad format – which according to eBay, would limit the number of feedback ratings a seller would get.

This would be a sit back for sellers who sold digital products. However, they can get around this rule! In the beginning days of eBay, there were people who made a killing selling information on CD! Just burn your digitally downloadable onto CDs and re-list in auctions. Of course, the bad side of this would be that you have to ship the items now since these would now be physical products.