Wow, I just went and looked at the summer update... geez. no returns less than 30 days now. I can still offer partial refunds, which to me are the same as being extorted, no thank you. Send me the item back in the same condition as I sent it, and I'll refund minus shipping cost. UGH. Looks like most of my music related stuff WILL be moving over to Reverb.com.
I like the idea of making buyers get an RMA number from me first, but what if they send something back ANYWAY without getting an RMA? Am I still on the hook for it? There's ZERO explaination or answer to that question. And of course, "NO returns" still means you will refund if a buyer pushes the issue....
As far as the shipping stuff goes, I don't see an issue with that. I nearly always ship the same day since I print my own postage, and I never ship beyond the next day. So I will be OK there.
I don't see much of anything in inventory optimization that will affect my categories. But that wouldn't bother me even if there was, I think better sorting ability helps us all.
Selling metrics, I really pay little attention to. I have my own products that no one else has for the most part, and they're branded with my name, so I don't have to worry about others walking on much of what I sell as far as competition goes.
The returns policy changes, though, those are sweeping and HUGE. We all figured something like this was coming. And here it is. I will not remove everything from here at eBay, but it looks like I will be moving the better part of my sales elsewhere. Too many unknowns NOT answered in the update and it's FAQ's, and I'm frankly NOT willing to "become a victim of eBay" to find out that they're going to be bad for us sellers.... eBay is shooting themselves in the foot in spite of themselves. They're going to run off a lot more sellers than they already have with this, I'm pretty sure.
