What's this I hear? Rumblings surfacing between eBay Live Auction sellers and eBay partner providers or, is it just the "noise" one hears when a small sect of eBay sellers start asking the hard to answer questions? After all, eBay Live Auctions (according to eBay's own published statements) is just a small part of their business model.

Really? Live Auctioneers reported $100M in sales last year and one would think that eBay shareholders just might want to know much did eBay make out of such a deal? Did eBay make 30%, 40% or 50% of $100M just from one of its partners and if so, how much did eBay earn from their own in-house eBay Live Auctions accounts? 100%?

Where are the numbers broken down in eBay's SEC filings to support its claim that eBay Live Auctions is a small part of their business model? How small is small? Where are the numbers to support their claim?

What about outstanding contracts with their sellers? What about outstanding contracts with their partner providers and those who have contracts with those eBay's partner providers? Maybe it's time eBay Live Auction sellers start reviewing the terms and conditions of their agreements and begin the process of meticulously pulling apart those agreements in order to ascertain the potential damage the closure of eBay Live Auctions will have to their future income and livelihoods.

Unlike regular eBay sellers, eBay Live Auction sellers sold product in a unique venue albeit, one that mixed specialty listings within regular eBay core, as opposed to that of eBay Motors, which had its own core.

Nonetheless, the collusion course of eBay live auction listings, potentially meeting up with regular eBay core listings, might have had some dire consequences to all live auction sellers, non Live Auction buyers and sellers and even those who consigned their goods to auction houses, who in turn, posted those items for sale on eBay Live Auctions. Why did eBay Live Auctions NOT have its own core like eBay Motors?

Why did the system add 12 + or minus hours to all live auction items at the start of an auction? Why didn't the items flow through core alongside those of one competitor who was afforded the opportunity to catapult his listings to front of eBay core? Why (to this very day) is one seller allowed to dominate eBay core above ALL other live auction sellers and even non live auction sellers? It's certainly a mystery to many and if eBay is going to do away with "Mystery Auctions" why NOT end this mystery and disclose why one seller (within the jewelry category) is afforded a golden opportunity to rake in millions in sales.

Maybe the problem is that eBay Live Auction sellers have NO CLUE as to what's really going on. Is it possible that 900 live auction sellers are totally in the dark as to existence of a "magic tool" which could push their listings to the forefront of eBay core? Is there an eBay instructional manual on "how to" dominate eBay core available online? Is there any disclosure, statement, road map, email, word document or anything within eBay's site, which informs live auction sellers where this "magic tool" resides and how to use it?

The answer is NO. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, which informs (or ever informed) live auction sellers on how to manipulate the search through the eBay Live Auction Catalog Management page.

When people wake up and smell the coffee, they just might come to the conclusion that they were placed at a major disadvantage, while eBay continued  to collect high Catalog and Final Value Fees. So, if you're a live auction seller, get the coffee pot going, pour a cup of Java and put your nose into your contracts/agreements and have a good read. Start investigating excatly what happened, visit the eBay Live Catalog Management page and get a clue as to the "magic tool" that could have made all of you multi-millionaires.