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To: RckyRaCoCo
Been on eBay for a very very long time, but wasn't really actively selling until June this year. It has been an incredible journey, with mostly frustration.

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.

21 posted on 09/25/2015 4:09:04 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: kingu
A few years back I bought a used Dave Mathews Band concert T-shirt at a thrift store. Listed it on Ebay and the little jerk reported me as selling knock off shirts. I was let off with a "warning."
24 posted on 09/25/2015 4:12:39 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Studies show that some people say experts agree!)
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“And if I could find a media auction site that could support any type of volume, I’d be there in an instant.”

Would amazon work for you? I buy tons of used books and CDs there.


42 posted on 09/25/2015 9:51:42 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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