eBay Spain - PS discounts Hint at Nationalist seggregation
By Ed | August 13th, 2008 | Category: eBay ES |
It must have been one heck of a siesta in Spain this summer.
The Spanish site have just announced that from 24 September, their PowerSellers will be eligible for 20% FVF discounts if they maintain minimum DSRs of 4.5 across all scores.
Last month, I blogged about the reported disparity in national average DSRs between sites, and posted a special report about the exceptionally low national average in Spain.
The new Spanish announcement about PowerSeller discounts contains one interesting and very worrying phrase -
Being registered user Spanish and confirmed in eBay.es well as take home in Spain (via Google online translation)
This appears to be saying that PowerSellers on the Spanish site not only need to be registered on it (fair enough), but also need to live in Spain and be Spanish citizens - if true, then that’s completely out of order for a subsidiary of a global multinational company - or is it?
Could this be a taster of a new-style policy for other eBay sites?
What’s your opinion?
Ed
