I TOTALLY agree with everything you said. It seems that every year eBay becomes more and more aware of their pseudo-MONOPOLY they have in the online auction business (if you want massive exposure to potential buyers).
I am SICK and TIRED of the STRANGLEHOLD eBay has on us sellers and even more sick and tired of the fact they obviously must be well aware of it, because of these unfair, rediculous, unethical, stupid, unnannounced, anger provoking actions they keep coming up with to make us sellers seem like we are nothing but $ to eBay and they seem to constantly be thinking of new ways to help dishonest buyers screw us, or to make extra money of us by holding our funds and making good interest while holding OUR money, with NO justification for treating us this way other than their GREED that seems to increase with each passing year.
I am a seller that has been with eBay since THE BEGINNING.. Over 13 years I have been selling on eBay and have a 100% PERFECT feedback rating and never has anyone had any problems with me.. THIS Fact should exempt people like me from this latest blow to the respect we deserve, but eBay does not care about Fair, they only care about satisfying their never ending GREED!
It seems it is the SELLERS they target most often to push around because they know there is NOTHING we can do about it, except to take it on the chin. It makes me DESPISE them because it is a terrible feeling to be taken advantage of just because you are vulnerable to their power and monopoly in the situation. I would LOVE to see congress come up with some kind of bill breaking up their monopoly, which is not technically a monopoly, but look at their market share, and you can see we have no alternative but to take their abuse, and the sad fact is that eBay is well aware they would have do something huge and horrible before we will move to another auction site because of their market share that makes them the only viable place for us to sell.
They do just enough at a time to keep us from becoming angry enough to all leave at once. They stay right there on the edge, treating us badly and abusing their Power, but only just enough so that we will keep taking their abuse. I can only hope that one day their greed will continue to grow on such a massive scale that they will make the mistake of REALLY doing something agregious enough to make all sellers rise up and refuse to take it anymore! I would LOVE to see us ALL leave to another site together such that eBay becomes the betamax of online auction sites in the near future. THEN they will realize their GREED was so insatiable that they mistreated and abused us, the sellers, the people that helped them to build the abusive empire they have become. I can only pray that one day they will learn the lesson to not bite the hand that feeds them. But the only way that will happen is if we could all organize and leave them high and dry and somehow see my dream come true of a worldwide boycott of eBay because of their constant GREEDY ABUSE to those of us who do NOT deserve to be treated in such a manner as we have been subjected to. It seems every year they come up with something new to screw us, to make life harder on us, but just enough so we will continue to take it laying down. I pray their greed will cause them to make the mistake of going too far one day, such that we organize and finally decide we WILL TAKE NO MORE OF THEIR ABUSE!
eBay SUCKS and I hate them, but I have no choice but to keep supporting them and selling on their site, because where else am I gonna go? To another auction site that has such a small market share that I might as well not even bother selling at all anymore? eBay knows this and they take advantage of us with this knowledge and power.
They need to fix their stupid "FIVE STAR" rating system that causes us to have to explain to every new customer that it is not like a NORMAL scale that anything less than 5 stars is BAD... because most normal people would think 4 is good and 5 is excellent.
I hated that stupidity of eBay when they came out with the method of how the number of stars affects us sellers... until they came out with this holding our money with no warning beforehand, and no excuse or rationale to it when they do it to a seller with a 13 year PERFECT reputation, other than the fact that they are OBVIOUSLY only doing this to us so they can FEED their GREED by making TONS of money off the INTEREST of the MILLIONS of OUR dollars they are holding with NO justification whatsoever.. other than to fill their greedy pockets with the interest they are making on OUR money. I say Phoey on eBay and their unethical treatment of us sellers that have been with them for so long, who they care nothig about... they even have the attitude that seems to infer they could care less if I leave or stay, and it shows... that is what is really aggrivating, is their attitude towards the individual seller like me... as if to say, "Take it and like it sucker.... or you can always just stop using our services, we dont need you, as you are just one of billions, and we will never miss you"
Their is only power in numbers and I long for the day when they go too far, far enough to cause us ALL to rise up, organize, and bring them down to where they belong!
eBay sellers UNITE! They are nothing without us.. but only without ALL of us!
Please someone figure out how to organize and strike back at their greedy corporate unjust practices!!!
eBay Sellers Unite! Down with eBay! In my dreams 😞
Until then I will continue to let them push me around and take advantage of me, because I have no choice.
eBay sucks for taking advantage of this fact.
eBay Sellers Unite! Down with eBay!
