The end of selling on eBay is near ...

[Klondike Mike]

They screwed up and now they want their sellers to pony up. How much? Who knows. For 5 months last year they say they didn't charge enough fee's for sales and demand a payment on January 22.

They take 15% from every sale I make already and this unknown $$$ demand could add up to 100's or even thousands. For ALL sellers. I will bail and block eBay from any access to my bank account before I allow this to happen. See attached email I received. Stay tuned.

 

[nomadradio]

I avoided using their postage labels when I saw that they expire in 24 hours if you don't get to the post office on time. Or they did at the time decades ago. Not that much more trouble to pay at the post office counter. Turns out it's a LOT less trouble.

Mike's suggestion I should use Shopify instead looks better and better.

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[Smokinone]

epay used to be a nice platform to sell, back when it was like a flea market. THEN it got too big, and they started to expand fees and charges and then took something from everything you do. I rarely sell on the platform, but they do offer world-wide exposure. Back when they started though you could find bargains, and get things at a reasonable price that wasn't inflated by the...greed basically...of the platform.
Used to be kind of a sell more make more, than a sell less make more operation.
Just my opinion and observation.

 

[nomadradio]

Every business model evolves in response to incentives. When you go public and sell stock the incentives tilt away from the customer towards the stockholders and especially to the stock analysts. Getting too big is never good for the customer.

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[Crawdad]

Getting too big is never good for the customer.

And yet the masses flock to Big Boxes, happy to trade away customer service for less (maybe) $$, while the service oriented Little Box goes belly-up.

 

[Klondike Mike]

I avoided using their postage labels when I saw that they expire in 24 hours if you don't get to the post office on time. Or they did at the time decades ago. Not that much more trouble to pay at the post office counter. Turns out it's a LOT less trouble.

That's a good idea. I don't know what the expiry date is these days but I think its beyond 24 hours. There is a advantage to getting eBay generate shipping labels as they offer discounts that you can't get at the counter. This will be the only positive thing you hear from me today regarding eBay.

 

[Klondike Mike]

THEN it got too big, and they started to expand fees and charges and then took something from everything you do.

Yup. See my comment below.

 

[Klondike Mike]

Getting too big is never good for the customer.

Yup. See my comment below.

 

[Klondike Mike]

No new update of the mysterious eBay charge coming due on the 22nd. Who is going to allow a vendor to write their own check on what they can withdraw from your bank account and not tell you how much its going to be? Not me. But wait ... there's more!

eBay sent out another email revising the "Payments Terms of Use". 22,000 words as per a web page word counter tool. 22,000 words! It takes them 22,000 words to describe a simple buy/sell transaction that ALL users must comply with. Within this explanation are links to other eBay sub-policies generating 1000's of more words. How many eBay users are going to go through this? My guess is 3. Me being one of them. Does anyone think they are doing the users any good with this new policy? What a load of BS.

 

[Klondike Mike]

It has turned out to be a nothing burger. For me. No charges imposed. WTF? These guys send out a threat, don't provide any details, get everyone worked up and ... so this just inches the hand closer to midnight for eBay. I will still list a few of my kits there for those who think eBay IS the Internet. Please purchase from my website so I don't have to pay the evil empire and the buyer saves money as well.

 

[unit_399]

Down here in Colombia the eBay wannabe is Mercado Libre (free market). Years ago it was great. Decent pricing, fast ship (usually free inside Colombia), and honest sellers. Now overrun with drop shippers who work from their homes and import from the US. 12 -14 days ship time after order.
I posted a ML to Amazon comparison of same item. Amazon was way less expensive and their free shipping was twice as fast . I posted on ML's forum and their FB page. After 3 days and several hundred comments they took down the posts and cancelled my account. Damage was done and so many complaints about sellers claiming they had the item in stock when they did not that ML now requires sellers to post projected ship times and if the item is imported.

- J.J. 399

 

[Brother DXer]

Now overrun with drop shippers who work from their homes and import from the US. 12 -14 days ship time after order

I posted on ML's forum and their FB page. After 3 days and several hundred comments they took down the posts and cancelled my account.

- J.J. 399

Now that sounds BAD! It's a shame things have to go that way, but I'm sure we all know it's just greed.

Very seldom do I shop on Ebay. But I did last week. I ordered a 11 meter 1/2 wave center fed dipole. The shop owner listed 12 in stock but I discovered in and email I sent him, he actually makes them when you order. It takes him a week before it's ready to ship. This doesn't upset me too much, but I feel like he needs to be up front about this from the start. I would still buy from him!!

But yeah, I've been ripped off before on ebay. And I've also heard from others who sell on ebay about all the headaches, heartaches and BS.

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Rodney

 

[Wire Weasel]

Now that sounds BAD! It's a shame things have to go that way, but I'm sure we all know it's just greed.

Very seldom do I shop on Ebay. But I did last week. I ordered a 11 meter 1/2 wave center fed dipole. The shop owner listed 12 in stock but I discovered in and email I sent him, he actually makes them when you order. It takes him a week before it's ready to ship. This doesn't upset me too much, but I feel like he needs to be up front about this from the start. I would still buy from him!!

But yeah, I've been ripped off before on ebay. And I've also heard from others who sell on ebay about all the headaches, heartaches and BS.

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Rodney

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