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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 359067, member: 4626&quot;]Or go without driving.&nbsp; But you do get the point that most miss; that changing when you buy something has no effect unless you reduce or eliminate the net amount you use.&nbsp; Else, you haven&#039;t actually done anything to hurt the company any and the boycott is useless.&nbsp; (Another problem with the gas/oil boycott is that it is a completely fungible commodity, but that analogy doesn&#039;t carry over to a service boycott lol so won&#039;t go into that...)</p><p><br /></p><p>Another meaningless boycott is when you boycott something you don&#039;t use anyway lol... why I&#039;m not going to boycott eBay... I sell next to nothing there anyway (main reason is the listing/selling/PayPal fees, <i>before</i> the rate hikes, already make it pointless to sell low value items; selling an item for 99 cents for example actually results in a net LOSS after the fees!&nbsp; For a concrete example, I just sold a $3.70 sheet of stamps for face value and only cleared about $2 after the listing, final value, and PayPal fees were taken out..&nbsp; worst ripoff is PayPal takes a portion of the shipping charge too, even though eBay only takes its fee off the value not counting the shipping charge...).&nbsp; I&#039;ll still buy on eBay ocassionally, but I almost never sell there anyway, not only because the fees are too high but I usually have nothing to sell anyway.&nbsp; Me boycotting eBay would be about as meaningful as saying I&#039;m going to boycott Ferrari.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thirdly and fourthly I guess... the boyocott won&#039;t be effective unless enough join in on it and the target knows you&#039;re all doing it, and why.&nbsp; And that&#039;s why I don&#039;t think the boycott will mean much; too many people won&#039;t bother to participate.&nbsp; In the long run, most who boycott for one day will come back anyway, because face it, it&#039;s practically the only game in town, or almost so, and even at the higher fees there&#039;s no place you can get as many potential customers as eBay, so until there&#039;s a viable alternative or competition, eBay could care less if people take a day off.&nbsp; Besides, see the first reason... if enough people boycott for a month maybe you&#039;d see a response... but a day won&#039;t mean anything, especially if everyone who takes the day off comes back the next day anyway.&nbsp; Same reason skipping a day getting gas won&#039;t do anything.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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