The prices on a lot of items lately have been reflecting that also.
Blame Meg Whitman who started the road to ruin for eBay.
That and the BS six month guarantee.
we are ‘tracking’ a dozen different items on ebay, waiting to be notified when someone offers nay of them for sale
we’ve had zero such notices in almost two months. curious, we’ve done some checking online and discover that many of the things ebay used to have MANY sellers of.....now there are none, or only a very small number.
it appears (very limited sampling, admittedly) that ebay has lost a tremendous number of sellers
we wonder if there is another website out there, especially for old ‘collectibles’.... that’s grabbing the market away from ebay?
insofar as ebay selling paypal, that seems to me at least to be a terrible business decision. in that the paypal franchise looks like it has great promise in a number of financial transactions and services niches
EBay takes 10% of shipping as well.
I used to always buy ebay but now I buy half Amazon too. There are lots of very active storefronts on ebay. Amaazon has nothing like this. But I usually buy from little guys on ebay who are selling what I want. Got a great deal on a hardly used juicer last month
I’m lucky that I’m able to buy real low and sell at a tremendous mark-up that just looks like a reasonable price to the average buyer.
Their fees only cut my margins from obscene to absurd. :)
Sure hope they continue. I’ve just this week begun thinking of selling items on eBay. Need to read through all the seller rules, so have been putting it off...nothing is simple anymore.
Beginning of the end for eBay started when they started forcing buyers to use paypal.
EBay is as left wing as it gets. Good riddens.
Years ago I sold authentic designer handbags, shoes, etc on eBay. Did quite well. Then they opened it up to China. My profits plummeted because there was so much fake stuff on there and people couldn’t tell the difference. I haven’t sold a thing on there since.
Who has time to “watch” an item? If I need something, I’ll buy it outright. I don’t have time to play the game of watching my bid until the last seconds when someone will undercut me anyway.
Their blanket ‘end the auction and assign a strike’ when they receive a copyright complaint hasn't been something I've seen since Garth Brooks was going after every used seller of his CDs. Get a couple of those complaints in six months, all your auctions immediately end - oh, sure, you can get them to lift the block, but all those auctions you launched are gone.
The required 14 day return policy (else you'll pay higher fees) is inane in the media category, even more inane expanding it to 60 days coming up next February. The fees continue to rise, and to cut your rates, you get to pay them a monthly fee which is repaid in fixed fee listings for free - pretty useless if you're doing almost all auctions.
And the buyer is always right policy is frustrating in the extreme. Got a delivery confirmation on an item? All the customer has to say is ‘Well, I never got it’ and bingo, paypal dips into your account and robs you.
It is really extraordinary how the people who pay all the fees are offered the worst customer service. And if I could find a media auction site that could support any type of volume, I'd be there in an instant.
Otherwise, I'd get to spend hours each day trying to figure out the prices of some extremely rare CDs, many of which have never been pictured on the internet, much less offered for sale to go with eBay's commitment to end the auction business.
Liberals/Progressives run Wall Street mostly these days. They ruin governments and ruin businesses too.
When ebay decided to go hard in punishing their sellers for ebay leadership’s failed policies, they run a lot of good sellers off. One thing about ebay is it was kind of it’s own economic eco-system of sellers selling and using the funds to buy on ebay.
The libtard dolts running the company(remember, they are in the libtard Sillycon Valley) that ruined ebay didn’t bother to figure out good sellers were also good buyers. They always treated them as different entities and for many users, it was not. Ebay was another libtard failure arrogantly thinking they could force their market to their will.
CGato
I’ve been taken too many times on Ebay/Paypal. I simply will not go back.
Now buy from Amazon, never been taken by their sellers yet. They let me pay with a credit card. It’s just too simple and quick to buy from them. Just no hassles.
So it really pissed me off when eBay & Paypal withheld funds on me for the sale of a collectible amateur radio amplifier to someone I'd sold to before.
Their reasoning: They had OTHER PEOPLE who listed as selling similar items to what I was selling, and it turned out those people shipped to their customers (read that: "victims") boxes of rocks and made off with the money.
Now *I* didn't have a single complaint against me for dozens and dozens of sales. I was an eBay "Gold" Seller. And yet, eBay was penalizing me for what OTHER PEOPLE did.
I cancelled the sale, contacted the buyer, told him what eBay was doing and we ended up doing business off eBay for the item.
Yeah, eBay literally ripping off sellers by withholding funds from a sale, then taking 10% + listing fee's really pissed me off.
After that incident, I simply quit selling on eBay. I have a good enough reputation I can sell on any amateur radio board that's out there without paying a listing, transaction or selling fee.
I hope eBay chokes itself to death.
You should see Ebay’s stock price. On Friday, 17JUL2015, it climbed up to $66.29/share. By the 20th it had dropped to $28.57. Since then it has slowly dropped with it currently standing at $25.33/share.