Ebay finally cut its own throat!

[Dave N.]

Well I feel I must post about Ebay as I used to do a lot of buying ans selling there. Mostly selling.

The have hiked fees and also hiked fees in Paypal to a point that selling something will make them a profit and you take a loss.

They also changed the feedback rules as to cannot give a negative or a neutral to a buyer, thus increasing the chance of getting a scam artist bidder and getting ripped off. It?s already starting to happen.

I just recently sold a fender strat and had listed that I will not sell or ship outside the USA. The winning bidder was in Germany and requested the guitar sent to Germany to an APO address. I checked with UPS, Fedex and US postal and not able to insure or track it because it was an APO address, the bidder also paid with paypal and had an unconfirmed address.

Well I requested a USA address that I could ship too and they finally gave me one. I promptly sent the guitar and the newbie bidder left a negative feedback before even getting the guitar, ruining my 100% feedback I had built up over 7 years.
I requested from Ebay to have the negative removed as I felt this was a wrongful left feedback and they replied they could only remove negative feedback under a court order??? WTF...

To top this off I could not leave the newbie Ebayer a negative even though it was her fault for not reading my rules or ignoring them when she bid. Buyer can no longer be left with negative feedbacks... just open them doors for the scam artist buyers Fleabay!

Point being that buyers can get away with giving sellers a negatives at a whim, rip you off and still leave a negative and also I found out from paypal if they file against you, paypal is in the bidders favor and will either take the money out of paypal account or bill your credit card and there is nothing you can do about it while the bidder still gets the merchandise.

There was a boycott against Ebay a while back because of the new rule changes and rate hikes this year. A lot of folks have made videos on Youtube complaining about Fleabay.

My take is TO HELL WITH EBAY and find a new online auction that doesn't create rules to hurt the sellers. Not sure who made the new rule changes but they just screwed themselves royally.

This crap is the final straw for me and I quit Ebay and Paypal. So if any of you plan on selling amp, guitars or any other stuff on Ebay you might just get ripped off by the winning bidder and maybe even get a negative too and Ebay and Paypal will be in favor of them!

Any one else had a bad experience at fleabay lately?

[Godwin]

on a much smaller scale, I am boycotting ebay at the moment, because they sent me a voucher, which they didn't let me use, for no apparent reason.
the only problem was that i didn't find out i couldn't use it untill AFTER placing the winning bid on an item I only bought because I could use the voucher to pay for it. I followed all the instructions, within the time limit, and their customer services led me round in circles until finally just ignoring me altogether.

the feedback rules have always been open to abuse. it used to really annoy me the way that sellers never give you feedback until you have received the item, though i sympathise whole heartedly with your situation.

both ebay and paypal fees are incredible, and the reason why i will never sell anything through it.

[madialex]

I quit ebay 2 years ago because of the paypal refund rule, i got scammed more than once with that crap, also the fees are stupid high, screw ebay and paypal, you wont see nothing of mine on there..

[musicftw]

I'm glad the world is moving away from eBay. It isn't a good platform to sell through now. I've moved onto penny auction websites (Eg. CircusPop and KaChing). Just google them. You may never go back to eBay.

[Sock Puppet]

I never use eBay for selling now, they're too greedy.

However, a friend of mine asked me list a few things and I had no choice...

As the minimum reserve price is now £50, I added this to one of the listings (a pickup):

Due to the new ebay rules with respect to their minimum reserve price, I myself reserve the right to be unable to find the item if the bidding ends below £25 as I'm selling this for a friend who is parting with it because he'd rather have a little money in his pocket.

I'll check out those sites (thanks Musicftw) or use Gumtree from now on.

- Found Gumtree through eBay funnily enough but yes, that's one throat that needed cutting.