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There is life outside of ebay Im living proof

Here for all you ebay employed staff writers trying to discourage the sane with bully tactics and scorning honest sellers who deserve to earn what effort they put forth...

Ebay, You are making a terrible mistake as per the Jan 29th Update to all members regarding the feedback system, paypal funds, fees and dictating to the buyers how they are to run their own operation.

Youre taking the rights away from all the sellers to run their business as they decide to practice. Why should any seller just say, "uuh, okayeee"? and go with your flow when:

1 - Youre giving the buyers the upper hand and not just the upper hand, way too much power over a seller.
with this power, they WILL abuse it at the expense of honest sellers. If you were to actually use FAIR means of monitoring things and weed out sellers that are TRULY criminals, then ok. But youre not doing that. Youre tampering with a good thing. Ever heard the saying if ainit broke, dont fix it? well the feedback system was almost unfixable except you HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY PEOPLE TO ACTUALLY REVIEW IT in order to delete certain lies. but youre not even going to question the buyers now. They have complete power. Try that at Home Depot. I have sold thousands of items and have come across at least 1% wacko (people that cannot be pleased when they receive perfect item, timely AND get full refund).

The feedback system was close to fine and acceptable enough. Doing away with sellers not even being able to leave feedback to buyers is unreasonable and goes againts how ebay was defined and so many other copy sites ran with that and still do. Did you all hire ten year olds in the board room?

2 - you say that now paypal can HOLD SELLERS MONEY (it IS THE SELLER's MONEY, NOT PAYPAL's or EBAYS) until the buyer HOPEFULLY leaves a feedback or 21 days have passed without a dispute? and you feel this is reasonable or acceptable? to whom is this acceptable? Its beyond poor business practice on your part . I'm finished with paypal, I went with google checkout last month with sucess! Until you buy that, then a merchant account only. I made you lots of money, I guess that was enough for you. You disallow Google Checkout in the ebay realm (what a shocker), much the same way as when you TRIED to disallow paypal. go ahead and buy it so you can control it or kill it. there will always be an alternative to your monopoly. Shooting your foot.

3 - Did you not notice that were in a slow economical situation? maybe youre using that to take advantage of sellers? sure looks like that to me.

4 - Maybe you forgot that you need buyers and sellers alike? you cant have one without the other. takes 2 to Tango.
I think this now... somthing, some site or the many sites are ruffling your feathers? why the terms "critical" to make the buying experience better? what was wrong with it? someone finds an item, they bid or buy, they receive, they exchange feedback, everyones happy.

the buyer can CHOOSE to pay high shipping costs if they DECIDE to. The seller should have the right to CHARGE whatever they feel is needed. higher or lower. Use WHOever and WHATEVER shipping means THEY deem. and STATE the time in which an item should be shipped at the sellers terms. then if the buyer chooses to agree to that, well and good.

You ebay have forced sellers to accept paypal or a credit mercahnt account? wow! Now if that isnt greedy, i do not know what greed means. you place in all inhouse emails the fact that it is unsafe to send payment money order or western union? since when? The seller likes it because they KNOW they have that money. They earned it. The buyer can trace those funds and act on a postal mail fraud if the seller is a cheat. No one loses. oops, ebay loses a few cents. I forgot. tisk tisk. theres that greed again.

It's THEIR STORE! The sellers are the workers. The sellers are the ones who put all their money and time into it. The sellers place their neck and name on the line. if they fail it should be THEIR FAULT. this ISNT a communist country yet. Its sure headed that way. WHY would a seller decide to pay you ebay for these incredibly rediclous rules that can hurt their bank account? Something's very wrong here.

5 - you make it all about the benjamens. the powersellers. i was never an official powerseller. I refused it I had the volume, so why did I need the hassle? I was good to go. So i just opened my website and fled the fee structure and reduced my overhead by a huge percentage.

I know, I know, you do not care. Well your stock holders seem to apparently.

6 - You seem to be WANTING the sellers to quit? to make room for whom? What is the incentive for sellers with any brains?

If you make the sellers angry, and they leave, that takes less diversity from your listings attracting fewer people. All the weird stuff is what ebay popular. remember?

Theres an old saying that says something to the effect of not stepping on toes on the way up..., I feel some ouches coming.

7 - What does this mean, "sellers who list in certain categories with higher rates of buyer complaints". ? because a category receives numerous complaints, youre holding the sellers responsible? thats very strange business. Sounds like its the products fault. not the sellers. Ok, whatever - youre your own boss!

8 - you reduced listing fees but increase the FVF? thats like trading in your car for 1200.00 and having the dealer tack on 1800.00 - not a fair trade and any one with common sense knows this.

the whole thing smells like 3 day old fish to me. I wonder what the majority feel?

Ebay acts as if they didnt care. They HAVE to care. its their bottom line. When the sellers get out from the net they placed themselves in, ebay will see the difference.

Then again, if theyre plannign on ridding themselves also of the classic ebay auctions (they really have lost it) then who needs them? just go to wally world or anystore thats within driving distance. Save on shipping. Save on waiting. save on peace of mind.

for the life of me, I cant figure this one out ebay.

After reading that Jan 29th letter,  id never consider opening a selling account again. I do business my way and its successful and honest. and dogonnit, poeple like me :)

As a buyer, i only use ebay for rare items. and lately my echecks have taken 8-9 days when there is money in my bank. What gives? 3 times? no more. when the rare items are gone, so am I as a buyer. Who is left then to ride ebay?

as a stock holder, I think ill take the advise of my broker and sell most of it now.