*Sigh* Ebay , the anti-seller marketplace

kblessinggr

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I didn't have any problems (yet), but every time I see this, I keep thinking what a shithole ebay has turned into for sellers.

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For those of you who don't notice... sellers can only leave positive feedbacks to buyers, not negative not neutral, yet a buyer can leave positive, neutral and negative on a seller.
 


I haven't used eBay in years, it's a fucking dump.

My wife likes to get her bento accessories from there. It's certainly a buyer's market.

I used to sell dozens of things per week a few years back for "The Camera Center LLC" which is unfortunately out of business now. But needless to say it was around the time they started shafting sellers big time especially with the feedback restriction that we decided to try to sell off our own e-commerce store which wasn't working very well, and they changed it to such a point that even getting 2 negatives during the slow months (ie: summer) would cause your account to be restricted to selling only 75% of what you made in the last 90 days, which of course means major hurt when you can only sell 75% of your income in the summer months during the christmas seasons.

Among a crapload of other things.

The screenshot above was me getting rid of one of my domains. Seems most buyers can't read to start with. But what's worse is that the payment they sent me is "pending" in paypal (thats a nice way to rephrase their "hold"), basically they hold your payment for up to 21 days, or until the buyer leaves you a positive feedback on "high risk items", but here's the problem, what seller especially of a physical good such as say a camera, is going to want to ship a product if their money is not garanteed in their account.
 
effing sucks, ive had like 3 friends lose lots of money from scammers. sure they should have paid super close attention to detail and saved their USPS receipts for months, but ebay claims to be a safe and friendly marketplace... BS
 
My wife likes to get her bento accessories from there. It's certainly a buyer's market.

I used to sell dozens of things per week a few years back for "The Camera Center LLC" which is unfortunately out of business now. But needless to say it was around the time they started shafting sellers big time especially with the feedback restriction that we decided to try to sell off our own e-commerce store which wasn't working very well, and they changed it to such a point that even getting 2 negatives during the slow months (ie: summer) would cause your account to be restricted to selling only 75% of what you made in the last 90 days, which of course means major hurt when you can only sell 75% of your income in the summer months during the christmas seasons.

Among a crapload of other things.

The screenshot above was me getting rid of one of my domains. Seems most buyers can't read to start with. But what's worse is that the payment they sent me is "pending" in paypal (thats a nice way to rephrase their "hold"), basically they hold your payment for up to 21 days, or until the buyer leaves you a positive feedback on "high risk items", but here's the problem, what seller especially of a physical good such as say a camera, is going to want to ship a product if their money is not garanteed in their account.

Always use escrow for domain transactions.

if the buyer files a chargeback with his CC paypal will automatically reverse the funds from your account. Paypal claims it a "virtual item" :angryfire:
 
I actually shop on amazon more than ebay now. Seams like a lot of things are cheaper than ebay. I would assume its due to the fee's?

Also all those honk kong sellers are f'n annoying with their cheap knock off shit.
 
I have been "scammed" 3 times from BUYERS due to eBay finding me "guilty". I gave them tracking numbers and all other shit they asked for but eventually took the money out of my Paypal.

Funny thing is, there was no bank account on that Paypal account at the time, so eventually it went into "collections".

I mailed the agency every fucking email, tracking number and anything else I had for the cases (45 total pages worth). The day after they got it, they gave me a call and said they were dropping the "collections".
 
Like someone said above, Ebay is a TOTAL buyers market.

Haven't had too many bad experiences out of probably 500 transactions (half sell, half buy). Never lost money, but have purchased shit that had to be returned because of lies.