Disgruntled Ebayer

eBay: A glimmer of Hope for Feedback

I must echo the other comments of the folks above. EBay had been a great place to make a living. It is now being geared towards a more Amazon model. The new rules placed on sellers of no more paper payments, i.e. checks/money orders, will severely limit their sales opportunities with the older baby boomers who do not trust, nor do they use online payment options. In my collectible business, this represents half of my customer base. This issue, coupled with the fact that sellers no longer have a level playing field with buyer ratings on feedback, makes the site untenable for most sellers.

The incentives offered by eBay’s new fee structure favor only the corporation, not the sellers, who make it possible for eBay to keep the lights on. I for one am trying my best to close out my current inventory on eBay and other sites, with a complete migration to other venues by the end of the year. It is simply not worth the effort to try and eek out a living when you must constantly be jumping through hoops. EBay was a great venue when they were providing a platform for independent business people to provide their services. When they started dictating how individual businesses were going to conduct business, by taking away half of our payment options, they stepped over the line in my opinion. I am done with them. I used to own stock in the company. I sold it a while back when I saw the changes that they were making and realized that they were running the company into the ground. Think George W. Bush's rational for the "big picture" of things and you will get a glimpse of what appears to be eBay's current mindset. Sad really!

It was a great company at one time. Those days are now gone!