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I have been a ebay member for years , only as a buyer, untill about 4 months ago when i decied to try selling. I gave it alot of thought and studied the items i was going to buy, and felt it was gonna be a great move.

All my items I selll are small tiny ones, so shipping costs are never a problem for me. The problem was trying to keep up with all these powersellers who are selling the same items as me for half the price. So i looked closly at there listings. I decided it was my auction title itself that was not attraking as many buyers, so i changed , thank god only 10 of them. Then i get a notice from ebay saying i was word spamming, which i had no clue as to what it was, untill i received this mesage. I didn't relize that yoo couldn't use a "brand" name in your title. Fine i took them down, and went back to my boring auction title names. Than what do i see but tons of power seller's with stores, having the exact same wording for there titiles as me, so i reported them. Nothing happened. I reported them again, and again, and to this day i report them once a day, yet none of there listings have been taken down. Only mine were, so not only is it hard enough to competet with theese big time sellers, they are somehow allowed to keyword spam all they want, and there for are getting all these buyers seeing there items when searching for something eles.

I have had nothing but problems with ebay from day one as a seller. Being a buyer is great, being a seler sucks. Finally things started to calm down, and the fees get raised, i mean come on, there already to high anyway. A free gallery pic??, who cares, there is no evidence that having a pic makes your item sell any better. All they want is more money. These changes are not good, and do help the little guy just starting out.

And soon we sellers can't leave negitive feedback for a bad buyer, where on earth is the logic to that???? How are we to even warn others of a bad buyer?, it just dosn't seem fair. The whole feedback system on ebay is a joke, and dose not work. For example I use to have %100 feedback for both buying and selling, untill about a month ago. Long story, basically i got a item that was describbed horribly wrong, the seller charged me for priority shipping, and never actually shipped that way, it took 3 times longer than should have, i had even asked for regular ordinary shipping so it would be cheaper, than i tried to contact the seller many times to resolve the problem, filed with paypal, and i got nothing, So I left her a negitive feedback. I had never done this with anyone before, sure i had unpleasant transactions, problems in the past, but they had always been resolved, so positive was left in the end. This seller turns around and leaves me a negitive simply because i left her one. I did everything i was suppose to do before leaving a negitive. She phoned my home and started to yell at me for me leaving her a negitive. She ruined mt perfect score, and since i only have 100 or so stars, 1 negitive drops my overall score alot. Her overall starts is in the 4000's, she has 28 negitives in the last 12 months alone, and her overall score is still higher than mine. The comment she left me, all she wrote was i was banned from her store. She wrot that simply cause she didn't have 1 bad thing to say about the actual transaction. So i tired to get help with ebay to have it removed, and did they help me???, NO. They didn't do a dam thing for me. I tried to get paypal to help me, did they ?? NO. They say that if i ship the items back at my own cost, than i will receive ONLY what i actually paid for them, not the shipping that i paid her. The shipping ervice she claimed to have used, but clearly did not. So basically i'm stuck with the item, it ill cost me more money to return it outa my own pocket than it will be worth to get a refund.  And the funny thing is I wasn't even asking the seller for a full  refund, all i was asking was for a percentage of it, and a refund for the over priced shipping, since she did notindeed use priority. PayPal did nothing to help me at all.

Now i have a bunch of stock, so i'm basically stuck, trapped you might say on ebay untilli can sell it all. It should be all gone by the end of summer, but thats way to long to be putting up with the over priced fees, the non helpful staff, and these new outragious  fees and rules. Some may actually think that these new fees are a savings, but read the fine print of it all, the only person who is benifiting from it is simply ebay themselves, not sellers. Especially new sellers, or hobbie sellers.