This is so true. I am having a situation where my ad states insurance required on all purchases. Ebay took this off of their invoice options. I didn't realize that just because they removed it, I couldn't charge for the insurance which is only $1.75. The Buyer complained in a very nasty way with several emails. I suggested to the Buyer we mutually agree to cancel the transaction. Buyer emails me and says no. (all of this over a $9.99 item, lol). I opened a resolution claim and since he didn't agree, they closed the claim and tell me to send the package. I do NOT want to deal with this Buyer. He has already left 5 negative feedbacks to other Sellers. Ebay treats Sellers awful and they are the ones making them money. Paypal charges me a fee on the shipping and insurance costs. This is totally not right.

I have been with eBay since 1997. I have never written on any of these but tonight I am because I am ticked. I had 7 items on tonight and making good money and since no one could bid the last two hours due to something wrong with eBay I have lost money. You know how buyers bid up to that last second. I think eBay should refund our fees for the auctions for sellers whose auctions ended tonight durning this mess.

I also agree that eBay has favored the buyers now. Why can't sellers leave negative fb for buyers. Makes so sense. I get new ebay buyers and a lot never pay and I can't leave fb to warn other sellers. And I also agree with no insurance anymore, Why? So what I do is add 1.75 as a handling charge if I think I am selling an item that the buyer may insure, just to cover myself.

The other thing I don't like is the buyer is only allowed to use Pay Pal and not M.O. checks, like they use to. That is stupid! There are a lot of people who don't like ebay.

My son is a computer wiz and I told him if I ever win the lottery that we would start up another online auction and make it so good that people will leave ebay, dream on, huh? Because I do enjoy selling online.

I use The sellers resource (SSB) for my auctions, I pay 7.00 a month and they bill every 3 months. I am very happy with them so I emailed them and asked if I could still use them with other online auctions and I got an email back right away from support and she said yes. Go to their home page and on the left is a list of other auctions. So I thought I would try ioffer.com. So I am researching them right now. You can look at my auctions on jinraye and see the layout for SSB.

Last night I also read articles on ebay and how they are loosing sellers. Down 13% but eBay seems not to really care or worried about it. The new CEO starts this March.

I agree with you about last night. I had on a pair of True Religion jeans and I know I could have gotten more money for them.

Jinny

Yeah, I don't know what it will take to get eBay off their high horse and support the sellers. Like one person said here, without us (sellers, no buyers.)eBay has gotten so big that it is difficult for anyone else to have an online auction. But if they keep loosing sellers maybe down the road they will wise up.

Jinny

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A few months back, Ebay felt the dollar numbers going down, so the offered a "List any item at any price-FREE" promotion. The dollars went back up, so they took it away. They only understood, or "GOT IT" for a moment. "WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN".Hhmmm. I think I will write that song.

I agree, can't sell a thing here no matter what it is, i almost launched an ebay busineess but did not becuase thee fees are almost as bad as a second income tax, having 10 percent or more of my gross eaten away, kept me from doing so. I made my own website to get rid of stuff i did not want. You have no way of promoting the sales either that doens't cost a fortune.

We [sellers] need to be able to leave feedback for buyers,that is the only way to leval the field,about once a month i get undeserved bad feedback,I do not know how much longer I can TAKE IT !

I just ended my listings earlier with ebay.  I have been a customer since 1999 have 100 positive feedback and they still are holding my funds.

 

Last straw.  Sold and item on saturday shipped it monday, buyer got it on the 25th a Wed.  and left positive feed back for me.  My funds are still being held till May 4.

 

I called ebay and they said in the next two hours funds will be release and it has now been four hours and item still shows funds released May 4.

 

Bye Ebay and Paypal, you treat me bad and I find somewhere else to sell my goods and you get nothing.

 

You wont be in business much longer acting like this.

 

 

Here's my experience.  I ordered a replacement print cartridge from eBay and forgot about it.  The item never arrived.  I received an email from eBay requesting feedback 53 days later (March 31, 2013 to Feb 6, 2013).  I followed the links and selected "item not received" and was directed to contact the seller.  I did this, and the seller never replied.  Another week went by.  Then I went back to the "give feedback page" and was now told case closed, too much time has elapsed.  I spent a couple of hours trying to talk to eBay and was told they will not give me the seller contact information or help in any way. Done with eBay!