[Fresh Wind]

eBay has several problems...

1. Seller fees are too high. eBay’s greed is chasing sellers away.

2. The deck is stacked against the seller who has no protection against crooked buyers. In a dispute, eBay will always side with the buyer regardless of the facts.

3. To add insult to injury, eBay has now extended the time the buyers have to return items they claim are “not as described” to 6 months, which is insane.

4. The eBay feedback system was deliberately emasculated so that a seller has no public recourse against a bad buyer.

5. eBay constantly changes how their system operates without warning, which can confuse buyers and sellers alike.

[Red in Blue PA]

7. They do not allow gun accessories to be sold.

(Probably should be #1 reason, not 7)

[kingu]

Don’t forget entire swaths of sellers deleted for hours at a time as their systems keep crashing.

[kaila]

I am seeing things that would have in the past been sold on Ebay now being sold on Etsy and Ruby Lane.
I wonder if those sites are offering a better deal to the sellers.

[Finatic]

Exactly why I stopped selling on ebay a few years ago. It was great while it lasted, now the fees and forced paypal and its fees erase any profit you might realize.

[moehoward]

All that’s true. eBay fees have gotten too high, and then you get double dipped from Paypal.

What’s really killing eBay? Craigslist and Amazon.

[outinyellowdogcountry]

Close friends bought a laptop on Ebay for about $900, used Paypal and never got the laptop and never got a refund. I only presume they followed all proper recourse to settle since they did not have a lot of money. This was a few years ago and maybe Paypal has gotten more safeguards but that really put me off of both companies.

[catnipman]

“eBay has several problems...

1. Seller fees are too high. eBay’s greed is chasing sellers away.

2. The deck is stacked against the seller who has no protection against crooked buyers. In a dispute, eBay will always side with the buyer regardless of the facts.

3. To add insult to injury, eBay has now extended the time the buyers have to return items they claim are “not as described” to 6 months, which is insane.

4. The eBay feedback system was deliberately emasculated so that a seller has no public recourse against a bad buyer.

5. eBay constantly changes how their system operates without warning, which can confuse buyers and sellers alike.”

Indeed, ebay’s woes are self-inflicted: their greed and stupidity chickens are finally coming home to roost.