Ebay and fee hikes: No longer for small-time entrepreneurs?

By Dan Blacharksi

One of the things I've always liked about the Internet is that it created a venue for small-time entrepreneurs who wouldn't otherwise be able to compete. For a few bucks a month, anyone can rent a little corner of cyberspace and set up shop. Companies like eBay came onto the scene early in the online retail picture, creating an infrastructure that allowed very small micro-businesses to flourish. But while it did create a lot of micro-businesses, eBay itself grew into a very large macro-business, and like larger businesses tend to do, they forgot about the little guy that made them so big in the first place.

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