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I have a small business and have been selling with eBay for about 5 years now,
Up until recently i have found that eBay has been a good place for selling and buying,

I am finding that since eBay changed there feedback that i am getting a lot of buyers that are not going through with there purchase as they know that nothing can be done to them and they cannot receive any Negative or Neutral Feedback.

Until last week me feedback was 100% with over 6000 Positive feed backs left,
I had one buyer that left me a neutral feedback on 4 items for the postage time being to slow,
When i contacted him he said that 10 days shipping from Australia to USA was to long and he was not happy about that,
He declined to withdraw the neg feedback, he said that he could not be bothered and that i could not leave him any any negative feedback,

Also i think that eBay is very very unfair making Australian sellers accept Pay Pal only, Approx 40% of my customers would pay by Direct Deposit or by Money Order,
I will loose large amount of those customers,
I pay eBay and Pay Pal approximately $1500.00 every month in fees,
All i am asking for is a little more compassion from eBay for sellers and maybe a little more respect.

If eBay keeps going with there changes i will be forced of of business,
Does any one have any suggestion's?
Thank you for reading this letter.

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Is eBay donating any profits to The World of Good or just advertising? 

Let's be fair and show both sides of ebay.  Market eBay with sad photo's of ebay seller's feeding their children catsup packets tossed out from fast food venues and eating out of garbage cans and living in shelters because of the loss of income imposed by ebay's and paypal's new rules.   I hear these horror stories from many disabled people who's sole income was from ebay sales who wanted to earn their own living rather than collect SSD and Wefare. 

I'd like to see an article on how many new Social Security and Welfare applications were filed in the US alone due to eBay and Paypal.     

Well, well, well, I see Ebay is still raping everyone's bank accounts, and running good sellers away. 

I fully agree with a World of Good comments.   There is no way in heck a brand new seller would cut it on Ebay these days with the sky high fees, paypal fees, nasty Buyer attitudes, and not to mention the new feedback system.    There are many scamming buyers on Ebay who know how to work the system and can put a good buyer out of business if they choose to do so. 

Question:  How can Ebay still surrvive after all of the greedy changes they have made in the past 5 years?
Answer:  As many Sellers Ebay loses, there's always a crop of new Sellers signing up for their communist environment over there; until they have been used up as well... and so on ... and so on. 

Once upon a time, Ebay was a fair place for buyers and seller and the small business owner. Ebay is a corporation that is NOT set up for mom and pop businesses to survive.  Just ask Walmart about that.

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eBay needs to set it's own house in order before trying to take over the rest of the world.

Supporting fair trade is an either or situation, you can't be a little bit pregnant or almost a virgin.

One of the most disturbing things about PayPal/eBay's recent defacation in Australia is the enormous upsurge in anti-American sentiment among Australian sellers. It is completely understandable but very sad because most Americans are NOT like the greedy arrogant and ignorant uglies who run eBay today, yet we are all being painted with the same polluted brush.

Is this what we want to see embedded in a generation of the poorest of the poor?

I urge anyone who feels a need to help alleviate poverty to go to Kiva.org and tell them Henrietta sent you.

Hi Doug

What many of the previous replies have missed completely, as did you by relying so heavily on the eBay press release, is that World of Good is attempting (like MissionFish and eBay Giving Works) to simultaneously provide a channel for existing Charitable / philanthropic channels, and to regulate and order them.

If you read the terms of becoming a World of Good registered trader, they enforce western world registration with bodies such as the FLO or the UK's Charities Commission.  The problem is that the truly fair trading traders have neither need nor resources to wrap themselves in the onion-like layers of bureaucracy that such registration entails.

Just as an example -

GazLanNaThai have used eBay (and many similar sites) as a retail channel for over 5 years.  We've sold over 10,000 items on eBay in that time and never once been involved with their profit-leeching charity programs.  The benefactors have been the ethnic minority hill tribes of Northern Thailand - both the ones that are denied citizenship despite centuries of permanent residence in the kingdom, and the ones that are 'recent' (actually decades ago and often with 3rd generation births here) refugees from the despotic regime in Burma. We provide these groups with a route to market as they are confined to the refugee camps and cannot travel for employment to pay for neccesary education and health care, nor for housing materials etc.

We also provide international market channels for cottage and farmhouse industries in the traditional and heritage skills sectors in order to keep those skills alive.

Just two years ago, we were ready to heavily expand operations and the number of supported groups, based purely on sales performance on eBay.  Today, due to eBay's punishing new policies, and despite a "good" standard of seller performance under eBay's criteria, the combination of ever-rising fees, collapsing traffic and visibility, falling on-eBay sales, increases in fraudulent buyer chargebacks through PayPal, and other business risks associated with the eBay group of companies, we are actively withdrawing from using them as a channel.

World of Good?  It's just a gimmick to make large budget "do-gooder" organisations feel they have a special relationship with eBay, and bring in "the organisations" to replace the smaller philanthropists and holiday-trinket sellers.  Larger organisations are cheaper and easier for eBay to service than millions of small, individual, sellers.  That's the bottom line.

interesting...

ebay allows the trade of companion animals such as cats & dogs as food stuffs on their china site but wants to promote fair trade.

everything i sell is from a country that promotes a living wage. most items on ebay are from non-fair trade countries and those with a high incendense of human rights violations.

perhaps ebay should worry about its own backyard before cleaning up the neighbors.

eBay is currently run by a bunch of greedy egomaniacs.

There is exactly ONE reason why eBay might get involved in anything meant to help anyone but themselves, and that's because they have garnered so much DESERVEDLY negative publicity lately that they are grasping at anything that might make them socially acceptable.

Nice try, GREEDBAY. 

I'm not buying it, and neither is anyone else who has seen the carnage on ebay.com in recent weeks.

You haven't been to the Ebay Feedback Discussion board in the past 2 days, have you? Have a look at it: http://forums.ebay.com/db2/forum.jspa?forumID=113&start=0

They won't need that site, because the sellers will all be gone!