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Tiglet
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A Solution for eBay and Its Frustrated Seller Community [view article]
If you think eBay has done sellers a favor by giving them a great place to sell and buyers a place to shop, they did, for many years.But that began to change when they started hiking the fees up so they reach as much as 65% for some sellers, and make is so the seller can't tell anyone that the buyer didn't pay or was rude and demanding. And make direct contact all but impossible. And passed right over their own customer base (the sellers) to mess with the seller's customers, (the buyers). Promising discounts to their high volume sellers, only to make it impossible to get the discounts. And eventually it will also be impossible to even be a Powerseller if the seller falls below 4.5 (a rating that by eBay's own standard is above average performance... and so on and so on….
If you honestly believe that, then you are as delusional as eBay is when they say they are creating a safer place to sell.
What they have done is create a place where buyers and sellers are pitted against each other. And called the sellers noise because they object to higher fees and losing their voice. They will end up with the sellers who don't care if they have low DSR ratings and negative feedback and the sellers who do care will go elsewhere.
Sorry, but you are clueless. Ask the sellers who have been selling on eBay for 7, 8, 9, 10 years or longer. And take the trouble to listen to what they say. eBay asked, but didn't bother to listen. Now they are have created a mess where their best and brightest sellers are going elsewhere, using the fees they save to run their own successful sites with targeted buyers being brought in by Google AdWords. Not a dream my friend, but a reality that is already happening.
Do we appreciate eBay? Yes indeed, that was why we stuck with them even with fees out the roof. But when they call us “Noise” and treat us like servants, the magic is gone and we leave.
So would you.
tig
Mar 06 11:21 AM