I have just been through Hell for the last 2 months due to ebay and paypal freezing my funds!  The first person I had to file a claim to get paid in the first place...then she said the item was a fake and not what the pictures showed (a lie) and wanted her money back.  I told her I did not refund shipping (in my listing) and to ship the item back in the same condition.  She never shipped back the item and then filed a "unauthorized chargeback" with paypal.  Well that took over a month but they did side with me.  Unauthorized?  Please, she paid it.  But my account was frozen for over a month!!!  The second was an overseas buyer who filed a claim with ebay because they never received their item..  The tracking clearly shows it was mailed the next day (due to ebays new rules for 1 day shipping!)  I clearly state in my listings that I am not responsible once an item has shipped but nooo....they filed an ebay protection claim...well ebay protection is not insurance as you may think!!  It is seller refunding money and also loosing the product they have sent!!!   They take the money from you and not from some backup insurance plan!!!   I got an email today stating that they refunded the buyer for the item and took it from my paypal account and it is no longer frozen and my funds are now available for use!!!!   Yes out the money and out the item!!!  Buyer protection my @@@.  Sorry but I am mad.  I have been selling since 2003 and it just gets worse and worse.  I have not listed anything new for over a month.  I am afraid to.  I keep paying higher and higher fees to ebay and paypal. You have to list your item for a higher price in order to make a "slight" profit.  It is not even worth it anymore.  I am a small time seller and used to make enough to offset my kids private school tuition and get the extra things for them that I cannot otherwise afford but now it is too much hassle.  I wish there was another site that could compete with them.  I am not sure if I will continue selling.  All the rules have changed.  I am still not over the negative feedback thing: buyers can leave negative but a seller can't!   I have had more and more buyers who do not pay and I have to file a case to get paid (IF I DO)  You have to wait to see if you will get paid to get your final value fee and then relist and see if your item sells and then wait again to see if you get paid again.....Then you have to ship within 1 day or lose your best match and chance being dinged for shipping...but you still dinged for it...on and on and on....sorry!

yes sir, international selling is total bs

many internt'l buyers know they can

take advantage of u.s. sellers and they

will lie or whatever it takes to burn you

it is best not to  sell international

mokie, I don't mean to be an idiot, but those

3 sites are not very good, in fact they are terrible

I do wish there was a site out on the web but there

isn't

too bad, ebay inc knows that, but sellers are

leaving ebay, alot of them

i would suggest sellers start going to outdoor places to sell,

indoor malls, swaps, etc, atleast they will sell there and i

think many are doing that

hehehehe.......

No feedback, no paypal or ebay banking rules.

Poor poor hollywood donahoe, he don't got no friends anymore,

just his foriegn buddy at the united sanctions, I mean united nations, just lonely old moon a ga butt, that's all he gots, poor poor dona-whoe

hehehehe.......