I know that I am going to sound like an "old timer" saying this, but once upon a time eBay was a great place to sell. I was here in 1998 and sold here for nearly 20 years. In that time, the site has become riddled with frauds and scams. There was once an individual who was very critical of the site and he ended up getting banned.
We no longer sell through eBay. The fees have gotten to the point that you can easily spend $400 per car relisting and that kind of sales rate just costs us money and earns eBay profits. There are lots of cars for sale here, but if you pull up something at random, you'll see that the site is littered with classified ads. This is not the platform that we wanted.
Doing a random search of "Chevrolet", the site returns 10,058 listings. Those are broken down as follows:
Auctions - 1,933
Buy It Now - 3,775
Remainder - 4,350 (classified ads)
So, the number of true bidding auctions represents less than 20 percent of the volume and the classified ad represents about 43 percent. That's not the type of platform that most of us built in the early to mid 2000s.
The bottom line is that you can come here and complain all day long and no one cares at eBay. I've written a few letters to their corporate office and end up getting a quick e-mail reply by someone who knows nothing of the car business.
We spent our last real fees on eBay in mid-2016. Since then we've advertised through other means and have had much better results.
Unless you have a highly specialized vehicle or something dirt cheap that needs a lot of work, this is not the platform to use.
