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JPSmit

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It's been a few years since I listed anything on Ebay. It's been more than an hour so far and I still haven't got the listing done and posted. Ready to throw the computer out the window so I figured I better walk away from it for a few minutes. Arghhhhh why do they have to make things so complicated?
 
Well, I for one have been selling on Ebay
for 12+ years, and ya gotta wonder?

Which is the lesser of the 2 evils?

Ebay? You have to pay a Listing Fee, a Final Value Fee,
they take a percentage on your S&H Fees, then if in your listing
you even give a hint that you will take, cash, check or M/O,
Ebay automatically withdraws your listing, until you take Pay Pal,
so they get you on the Pay Pal fees.
And now, since my rating dropped from 100% to 99.6, they want me
to list my tracking numbers, have frozen my money in Pay Pal,
all because the buyer gave me a neg remark, even after I
(and this was the very 1ST thing I did) offered a full refund.
They want me to use their Ebay Shipping Labels for a fee.

AND for my store I pay a monthly fee.

I am sick of Ebay taking advantage of the sellers and
giving all the power to the buyer, so the seller has no recourse.
I have even given a full refund, just to have the buyer KEEP my product
with ebay saying, "Oh, you did not list it with enough photo's",
12 photo's is not enough? You can only show 4 sides of a automotive part!
 
Listed. we just want to bid rid of this stuff - trust me if we get our minimum we're making money.
 
Ebay has a very odd business model. The SELLER pays every dime of Ebays ever growing fees. That would seem to make the seller Ebays actual customer. Ebay however bends (us) over backwards to satisfy the buyers. The buyers have NOTHING invested with Ebay at all. Ebay acts as if I am a cheap employee selling off inventory that belongs to them, not me.If you get stiffed or otherwise abused by the buyer, as a seller you can't even leave a negative feedback to warn others. I do less and less selling on there as a result. Then they seem to want drop shippers of uh substandard stuff to flood the listings with parts that would not the car you are searching for parts for on a bet. How about T tops for my Audi Wagon, or thermostats for my air cooled corvair? It is getting so hard to comb through the ....uh... stuff, that I don't look to buy there as much anymore either. I keep hoping that someone will start a creditable alternative.
 
I agree - I went to look at items for my '95 -
Dodge Dakota.There were 31,000+ items listed.Who wants
look at 3 pages of generic headlights?
I liked it better when both the buyer,& the seller
got to leave feedback - now it's one-sided.

- Doug
 
Ive had great luck on Craigs list. Sold two cars and numerous parts in 2011. Cost me Nothing!
 
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