What’s EBay?
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EBay is to Amazon what MySpace was to Facebook.
They started charging big fees and ticked off their steady customers / business owners. Many went over to Amazon.
I sell things on CraigsList.
No insane COMMISSIONS needed...
I’ve done pretty well this past year.
I think it’s because most of the sellers have quit because of the fees.
You know, ebay, the website of nothing but advertisement’s that takes forever to load and somehow the owners think interrupting purchases trying to be made makes good business sense, or that charging ridiculous fees to sellers is good business.
I had a terrible time getting eBay to enforce their refund when I didn’t get a product. I had to buy three more low price items from the seller and slime him with reviews before he answered my emails. Must have worked, in the end I won.
I continue to buy a lot of used and new items on Ebay, especially computer and technology parts. I also use Amazon and especially Newegg.
Tell me where else am I going to get a working SCSI disk controller for an old circa 2002 Dell 5U Server???
You just have to shop around.
Can anyone give some tips on how to search for items on Amazon?
For example, how would I find 5” long stainless wood screws?
Or a N80 valve for a 2005 Touareg?
Something that was replaced with Amazon Prime with free shipping and the best on line return policy.
Ebay made it nearly impossible to sell and make a profit on their platform. I used to sell a lot there, I’m surprised they’re still alive.
Every time I think I should sell something on Ebay... I remember the time I sold something and had shipped it to the buyer with tracking confirming he received it and the buyer claiming he didn’t receive it and Ebay taking my money from the sale.
I will NEVER sell anything through Ebay again in this lifetime after that.
Craigslist in person cash in my hand before I give anything away from now on.
I got ripped off twice and said , “I’m done here”
I got tired of buying junk from there.
What’s EBay?
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Myspace.com’s cousin.
FeeBay
I backed off from eBay when it became a forum for retailers to sell their inventory, one item at a time, for bigger profits.
When it was just “the people” buying and selling you could find some pretty neat stuff, now it’s just elcheapo reproductions from China.
Ebay decided to nuke a friend’s account over conservative political commentary left in feedback comments (which he should not have done). However, after the story hit Free Republic, someone from corporate called my friend and reinstated the account with a warning not to put such comments there. Interesting. Wonder if the need for income was a deciding factor or the fact that the comments could come out on Free Republic and have liberals AND conservatives at Ebay’s throat?
“What’s EBay?”
An anti-American website that once upon a time allowed people to sell (GASP!) guns. I used to browse through their listings of Krag rifles. I lost my country, has anybody seen it?