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Is eBay Expanding Their Finding 2.0 in the U.S.?
I am a small to medium seller, depending on the time of year, and because of that if I get a negative or the ebay neutral at the wrong time of the year when my sales are low. I will not be found in that great new search, as I will be pushed to the back.
Ebay are putting to many things in the way of me thinking ahead and expanding my little empire. Where alternative auctions are not. OK at the moment they do not have the base of ebay, but that is only because a lot of us still hope ebay will see the error of its ways but, as ebay are soon to find they had little to do with the building of ebay. There advertising was nothing to word of mouth.
There is also the fact that if the changes hurt sellers like me, then they are going to totally stop any small sellers and put off any new sellers. Would you start selling on ebay at the moment? 21 day holds, high prices, sellers attacking sellers and ebay dong all they can to ignore the fact.
And although I have done OK on ebay I know that without all the other sellers including the small sellers to offer their stuff and draw in buyers that then come to buy from me, I would not be able to make it.
But ebay keep playing with the important things I am sure buy, and walmart will love you for it, until they get what they want and say bye ebay, as we have done.
Is eBay Expanding Their Finding 2.0 in the U.S.?
The perfect item with the perfect price, or the buyer that pays ebay more money by listing more. We all know where ebay is going with this.
But when are they going to learn that ebay is not about how much ebay can squeeze out of the deal, it is more to do with the fun of what used to be ebay.
Not a lot of fun on ebay these days I have to say, but they should try it some time and see what ebay is about, it still has some of the fun it used to have, such as watching your bids rise over the last few minutes as two buyers fight it out. Or being one of those buyers and trying to outwit the other while not paying more than you are willing to pay.
As the other poster said if I wish to buy some things ebay is the last place I would look. Sorry to burst their bubble but I will look for external searches from now on to search ebay. You never know I may get it cheaper off the alternative auctions.
A Solution for eBay and Its Frustrated Seller Community
This is not just a problem with the fees and if ebay and this ebay employee thinks that is why people are so angry, then they should start forcing them all to start trading on ebay and see what the real world of ebay is like.
No security for buyer or seller and the more changes they make that are supposed to fix it just make it worse.
No customer service from both ebay and paypal when things go wrong
No NPB system, as even NPBs have the right to claim item not received or not as described and then if they respond to your NPB with "I just did this so I can leave you negative feedback." They can leave you negative feedback and then also reduce those great stars. So basically a seller has just been struck three times by one purchase that was not going to happen. Most sellers allow atleast three items to the same buyer So kiss your account good buy, as ebays restriction to stop this is to for them to have an account open for more than a few month, it is does not have anything other restrictions.
This is before the changes come into place that will also add buyers the oppotunity to say Just send me the money back and I'll keep the item and we will say no more about it or I am going to leave you negative feedback in an email. A seller can't prove a thing and ebay would do nothing if they could
Ebay will stop this is the ebay claim, But we all know ebay do not hire employees for their brains and can do little more than match the words of the complaint with a copy paste response of the regulations, which really does you a lot of good???
I could go on all day about what is wrong with ebay but why bother when they will not listen. I'm just NOISE and proud of the fact.