People have been describing the boycott as being fueled by anger, but I joined the boycott out of fear.

Ebay has made a great many changes which all together will have an unknown aggregate effect. The many changes include but are not limited to buyer only negative and neutral, neutral being counted against a seller like a negative, feedback percentages calculated on past year performance rather than lifetime performance, limiting access to payments received based on these new feedback criteria.

Sellers who feel they are immune to these changes based on their solid business practices and who continue to sell during the transition period may well find themselves suddenly hamstrung because it is impossible to predict how each of the many changes will play out in concert with the others.

A boycott fueled by anger will fizzle. But, if the fuel is fear of actually losing a business during the next few months, the boycott will only be the beginning of an exodus.