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Ebay quality of product is slowly vanishing with cheap products seaming to become more prevailent. How can a dealer with a quality product compete on ebay?

I love some aspects of ebay but there seems to be so many rules at times you wonder if its all worth it!

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I quit Ebay! Now Iam out for revenge! Lets stick it to them like the greedy sons of ####### did to us. I now have my own website where I sell Amazon products, that means I make money off other peoples auctions. Plus I can list all the products of my own that I want, (I do not have to list them with Amazon first) I just put them up on my website. I can also put all the affiliate links banners and digital products that I want on MY webpage and get paid for it. I have my own domain name so Iam building my own brand name and customer base. It was a turnkey website setup and ready to go when I started it, but with the online editor you get with it you dont need to know HTML or any programing to add your own products,banners, affiliate links, or digital products. I can change the site to look anyway I want its very easy to do. And I offer my costomers Free online games,news ,weather, sports and more. All for $20 a month. Why pay Ebays fees when you can have all of this and amazon will pay you to sell other peoples poducts along side yours , and you dont have to list anything on amazon if you dont want to? Go to my site Durashopping.com to see an example of this Website. I have modified the site(you will not get one just like it) to look the way I want, you can do the same very easy. If you also want to do this- just click the green banner at the top of the page.

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What comes around, goes around. Now take a look at ebay, thanks to their policies of rewarding the wrong customers.

Their loyal sellers had enough. Now they are leaving. The Ebay CEO's did not improve their site, they ruined it. It's too late now.

Would ya believe that when eBay changed their policy on feedback, I thought they’d done it because of ME? I griped at the message board. My message was removed for being of such a gripy nature (ew!), I was notified, and I replied as to how lovely it would be if the eBay cops paid such close attention to the seller practice of retaliatory feedback as they’d paid to my little comment on their message board. In my gripy post, I had explained how a dreadful experience from a ripper-offer had caused me to go from 150 mph to zero in a minute flat as an eBay shopper. My "thing" is vintage comic books, Katy Keene specifically, also books and movies.

I didn't eBay again for at least a year after receiving a comic book from a power seller that had 3 pages missing. Seller would not respond to my emails. Don't tell me this shocks you sellers, come on, what is a buyer to do? It happens constantly! This seller had a slew of negative feedback, but I had been mesmerized by the comic book I wanted (for nostalgia's sake), and not even checked (totally my fault, but hardly illegal or dishonest). After nearly 2 months, I gave up seeking a refund, quit asking to return the book, and left the negative feedback the seller deserved, nothing needlessly nasty, just the facts. INSTANTLY, not MINUTES later, I received retaliation as follows: SPOILED BUYER, BEWARE!!!!! Offered to refund money, buyer refused!"

Boy, oh boy, oh boy.

I'm only kidding about thinking the policy change was "about me" of course. But I love the change. Ebay is EXACTLY right in determining that ugly feedback from dishonest seller to upset buyer causes buyers to go away, cools a buyer's blood, moves them to decide wisely that eBay-ing is an oft-silly, expensive habit, best forsaken anyway. That's what it did to me for a year, in the middle of my vintage comic collecting ROLL.

Now I've got a new beef with eBay sellers. This guy added a 2 dollar handling charge after the auction ended. Shipping was already $2., that's why I bid on the thin comic book. Turned into FOUR dollars AFTER the auction ended. Sure, his listing quoted $2.00 twice, as he now insists, but it did not look like a SEPARATE charge for each, 2 for shipping, 2 more for handling, the way he had it. Why not just up-front admit shipping/handling will be $4.00? Because he got a lot more bids by showing shipping/handling to be $2.00!

The extra 2 bucks had to be ADDED by the seller AFTER the deal was done, not as shipping, but as "seller has added the following charges" on the invoice he sent. I questioned that, made my unhappiness clear to him, politely, even though I had already paid, and quickly. So he cancelled the sale and refunded my money. The CUTEST part is, it shows on my Paypal account as an item I have not paid for. It appears on my eBay account the same. "Need to pay for item" appears where "Leave Feedback" should be. I can't leave feedback for this seller, neutral or negative, nadda. Clever, eh? I wonder how he swung that little trick.

He is a "new" seller with only 90-something transactions. I say, he is an OLD power seller with a new identity, and I can certainly see why he needed one.

At the least, he deserves a neutral rating with "seller cancelled the transaction" as feedback. Many buyers give “negative" for this, as well they ought.

Where one “buyer” here has proclaimed that you can’t judge a seller unless you can look at the kind of feedback they leave for their buyers…what nonsense. I have never heard this reasoning before. I doubt that anyone else has, either.

The Dishonest, Bad Seller’s ability to leave ugly retaliatory feedback for any buyer who tries to get fair treatment HAD to go. How can you all possibly argue with that? (I never did get that worthless comic book returned or a refund. I ate the loss. The seller is still at eBay, going strong, still racking up negative feedback, along with positive...but no longer able to retaliate, thank heaven. Because LOTS of buyers are also sellers, retaliation can be devastating.)

Or, maybe I only feel this way because I am an honest, reasonable buyer. I can’t imagine being any other way. Rip-offs come from the seller. Not the buyer. Or don’t they?

I also feel Ebay's policy is unfair. I have more often than not been the buyer and NEVER have I experience blackmail or negative feedback from a Seller. I have, however, felt the sting of ebay's new feedback policy. I am not a high volume seller, I am a private individual who mostly buys and sells only occasionally. Last month I sold 3 items, one person rated shipping low (even though it arrived within the time period stated) and the other two buyers have not left any feedback. I have left them both positive feed back. This caused my seller raiting to drop below 4.1 (it is at 4.03) and I cannot sell for a month, or until I can beg the other two buyers to leave feedback. but I ask you. How is this fair? For the small ebayer this policy spells disaster. I plan to do my selling elsewhere.

Imagine this ... two scenarios for the past month Seller been trading on ebay for 3 years - prior to this month 100% pos+ feedback - many many very happy customers as seller goes out of her way to be friendly and helpful. Transaction #1 You list an item - it sells to a 0 feedback buyer who bid at the last minute. Buyer does not pay - email daily, emails ignored You lodge an unpaid item complaint. buyer pays - just before complaint automatically closes. You ship item (buyer wont pay for insurance, just basic post) Buyer leaves neg feedback that item never arrived Buyer lodges item not received complaint via paypal Paypal freezes funds while they pretend to investigate Paypal wont accept post office receipt as proof of payment, wanted tracking number etc only available here if you pay for registered post - much more expensive than normal post buyer only paid for normal post) paypal returns buyers payment. Seller now has 1 negative comment, no payment and no item plus is out of pocket for sellers fees and postage. Buyer cant even leave a neg to warn other sellers. Transaction #2 Item sells - all details clearly listed in listing. Buyer ignores invoices for a week. Buyer emails complaining about shipping and handling (clearly listed and fair fees - buyer knew fees before they bid) Reply to buyer that postage is not negotiable as I only charge exact fees - no handling - and ask again for payment. Buyer states that if postage is not given for free they will be unhappy and might have to leave a negative feedback. Seller passes email onto ebay as buyer is breaching ebays rules by attempting feedback extortion. Ebay does nothing! Seller gives buyer option to either pay or cancel transaction as postage must be paid as I cant afford to post it for free. Buyer pays after rude abusive emails with revolting insults, and said if seller cancel they will leave negative and bid on all my listings to cause trouble. (against ebays rules) Seller emails ebay about the situation "copy and paste" reply received advising of sellers responsibility to complete transactions. Seller posts item - as soon as email sent to buyer to notify its posted buyer leaves negative feedback about condition of item that they haven't even got yet - refers to seller in feedback as a scammer. Seller contacts ebay about negative feedback and explains whole situation including full proof with emails etc asking for feedback to be removed. Feedback stays - seller left with bad UNFAIR feedback and no way to warn other sellers as no neg can be left for buyer. Seller now has 2 negative comments that are unfair, reduce listing ranking and higher fees This is on top of 4 other NPB this month (3 were 0 feedback buyers - no way to block them) - and I am paying ebay for this !!!!!! I have some listings left but as soon as they sell Im out of here - I may not be your biggest customer ebay, but I am not leaving alone and without sellers say goodbye to your buyers!

I'm actually considering starting a class action suit against ebay for feeback negligence.  In sum, I proved the following and ebay did nothing after 4 emails to them.

1. buyer through ebay messages said he would use feedback extortion.

2. buyer then left negative feedback under seperate account which he also used to shill bid on his other listings as evidenced in him leaving feedback for himself as well!! and admitting  this to me in ebay messages.

3. shill bidding is a federal offense (google it). i went from 10 people a day interested in my auction to 1 a month (based on interest messages sent to me and bids) because my feedback dropped so much from this incident. the same guy left negative feedback for alot of people as well and then puts in his ads that he's got 100% feedback and is a trusted seller.

4. in my feeback buyer then went in under another account and said that both accounts were his and that he made a mistake (but the negative stayed and my feedback dropped 15%.

thanks ebay. thanks for not helping and causing the loss of income.

 

I have given up on ebay and moved on.  I sell things on the cheap and when it cost more to sell it's time to move on.