To Answer The Most Common Response To My (Start a Conversation) Posts.
The Most Common Is "if I have been on eBay Since 1996 How Did I not know all the eBay Policies and Why Didn't I Study Up On all The New Swindles Before Listing My Stuff?
Answer: I hadn't Sold On eBay For a Long Time and I am not a Power Seller, I Wanted to Sell A few Items I thought Someone might want to Buy because Some are Vintage Collectable and Rare Items Dated Back to the 1970s And Even 1930s So I didn't Want to Spend Days Reading and Try to Understand That an Enterprise Like eBay Could Be Charging Fees On Expenses Like Shipping and Taxes Payed Buy the Buyer as My Item Totals, (Who Could Ever Believe That?) Anyway, I listed Some Stuff to Clean up my House and I bought an Impact Gun That Cost $149.00 on Amazon That the eBay Seller Paid for it and Paid Tax, He couldn't Use the Impact Gun because his Compressor was To small from Harbor Freight and He listed it for $80.00 and $15.00 Shipping for a total of 95.00 and a savings of over $50 to me, So eBay Charged him 14% on the Item and His Shipping Expenses Combined and the Tax I paid to the Government as his Income! So I bought it and It was way to Powerful For What I needed so instead of returning it and The Seller Incurring The Return Shipping Cost I relisted It for $5.00 and $100.00 for Shipping Not To Lose all the Expenses and Fees and Tax AGAIN but Much To my Surprise It Was Foiled that Shipping is a Item Value even thou it is and Expense if It Cost 100.00 to Ship It! I Listed it As (SELL "THIS" ITEM!) The Same Item I just Bought 3 days before and Paid Tax and Now I am Being Charged Fees and Taxed Income as If I made 105.00 on an Item I Just Bought for the Same Money! NO INCOME at all! That's the Only Item I ever did that To See If Again The Taxes and fees Would Be Calculated for a 3rd time on the same Item Bought and Sold 3 times in a Month! So The Guy That Bought it From me Paid a Hundred Five But was only Taxed on $5.00 So that worked out for him!
My Dashboard Shows I made $105.00 But the Payout Was $70 and I will Be taxed Next Year for $105.00 on Just that item that the Item Value Was $5.00 So On my Other Honest Listings That the Item Sells For $30 but Cost $200 Shipping I will Be Charged Fees and Tax on $230.00 plus the Tax the Customer Payed in their State as My Income? Now Follow This The Fees 14% on 230 Are 32.00 So It Cost Me $2.00 to List Pack Ship My Item on eBay and then Next Year Come Tax Season That Same Item Will Be Again taxed As Income Unless You Document Every Item And Hire Accountants For Thousands To Claim All The Expenses Like Shipping Fees and Taxes On every Item You Sell On eBay? Can you Imagine Being A power Seller, Selling Thousands Of Items and Documenting All This? and No The IRS Doesn't have a 1099 That will Pay you all the eBay Fees Collected on Your Shipping Expenses! Youtube Has Many very Informative Video's From Top Rated Power Sellers and the Games being Played, Like Should You Get Sick and Not List for a few Days Its Penalized As if You Called in Sick From A job With Health Benefits. The Guy Said He Ships His Items to Amazon And they LIST, SELL, SHIP, PACK and DELIVER next Day and He Can Go On his Honeymoon Without Being Reprimanded For Not Listing for a While? It's a Bit More Money But He Got His Life Back and The Pop Up Button Asking If your Interested in Making Your Item Visible for Just an Extra $7.00-$40? Wouldn't You Think eBay would Want Your Items to Sell So they could Bang you For Shipping Expenses and Item Values but No We Like Our Items Hidden From Buyers and just Like Listing Stuff? WHAT?
Being an Amazon Prime Customer I have only One Story after All the Years Buying on Amazon! (AWESOME) the End! No Drama Instant Returns, No eBay Parents need to step in after a few Weeks Zero Drama, Next or same day delivery and Half the Stuff on eBay Is Delivered VIA Amazon eBay Drop Shippers and When You Need to Return Your eBay/Amazon Package that you Bought on eBay They Want you To Contact Amazon!
The eBay Empty Box Scam That Thousands of eBay Sellers Fell Victim To FULL MONEY BACK Empty Box That USPS Said Was 16lbs Shipped Was an Empty Box! This Happened With Apple I pads at 1,000.00 Full Money Back eBay Policy! Scambay Original along With I didn't Get My Item And Tracking Shows Delivered to The Address of the Buyer FULL MONEY BACK!
So a Seller That has 100% Top Rated Power Seller Shipped 70 Of these iPads But For this One Guy Sent Him an Empty Boxes? How Many Empty Boxes Has Amazon Delivered? Sellers Just Get Screwed Constantly and The Next Scam and Now The eBay Shipping Expense Fees is Just (I Just Don't Have A Word) Criminal Is Close!
I Understand The NEW Whole Transparency and Accountability Thing But That is The Most Unacceptable Founded upon Thing Everywhere, That's Just Something People Say To Get Voted In To make you Think That Person has honest Intensions.
Spend Some Time Reading The Antics Of Buyers and Sellers on Here and The Stupid Stuff and Endless Frustration!
I buy Something On Amazon Get It the Next or same Day and Should I not Be happy I tape the Box and Drop it at the Local CVS Free Label DONE Now eBay One The Other Hand? READ THE STORIES! It's Almost Comical? Yes You Kids Work It out And If you Can't The eBay MOM & DAD will Step in in a few weeks and decide What Kid Get The Other Kids Money? AND Of The Disney Dashboard Of What You Would Have Made had People Payed for your Items and If you Could Keep the Shipping Money Your 90day totals WHAT?
No Kidding, I have Lost 1000.00 In Scams Selling to Item Not as Described NO NEED TO RETURN anything FREE FULL MONEY BACK INCLUDING SHIPPING EXPENSES and Hey People Can Be Scumbags working the eBay Scam Policies But When eBay Is running Shipping Scams of their very Own!
Disturbing, Still Not the Correct Word! Sickening, Dis-cus-ting, Unethical etc.
Here Is a Fun Fact after watching Youtube Videos And How to make a Profit selling on eBay and Why So Much is Worthless Junk! You Have to Buy $5.00 Untested Broken Items from Thrift Shops, Like Car Radios That the Buyer Won't install right away and Go over the Return Deadline, Reseller/flipper says You List 25 worthless 5.00 items and Most People are to Lazy to Ship it Back Ya So Once in a While You get a Return But all the Other Crap Was a Win! So Buy a Broken BMW Radio At the Thrift Store for $15.00 and it Sells For $170.00 This Seller Has 35 Negative Feedbacks in 12 months 47 Neutral For Worthless Broken Items but Says He sold 785 Worthless Items from the Yard sales and Thrift Shops WIN! That is How You Make Money On eBay Not Selling Valuable Quality Items because 50% is Taken In fees and Taxes if not more! so What we can learn from this is The Reason a large Percentage Of Items Being Sold is Garbage is because that is all you can make Money From! (TESTED WORKING!) Bought At a Thrift Store OEM BMW Car Stereo. Seller Doesn't have a BMW to Test It but TESTED WORKING, No Hurry To Test it in my BMW because The Seller Tested It in His Toyota Corolla? Comical! Maybe The Quality Of the Items on eBay Would Be Better If You Could Make Money On Quality Items?
Do Un To Others As You Would Have Done To You! It Was not OK to List Items for 1.00 and Have 100.00 for Shipping and eBay Lost Fees When Item Value Was the Item Value Fee But eBay Thinks It's OK to Charge Fees on Shipping Expenses that the Label Is Purchased VIA eBay EXPENSE NOT VALUE! So In Reality eBay is No better Than The ones that Did the 1.00 Listing to Avoid the Fees, eBays Is doing it to Millions and That's Ok Because? KA-CHING GREAD
So I have a Solution! Never Will I buy anything On eBay and few more Items I will Never Sell On eBay and Avoid the Continued Drama of SCAMBAY, Watch Soon Once The Revenue Pie Shows Huge Profit eBay Will Be Sold To Amazon or Some Other Enterprises. We have a Business that Runs On Algorithms You Don't Have do Do Anything But Count MONEY and All the People Do all The Work!
Was A Nice Place that I loved Years ago But Now It's a Joke! Fun To Watch The Youtube Videos Read The Drama Stories. Shipping Value Fees WOW! Just Say You Changed Your Policies AGIAN and the NEW End Of ITEM FEE IS 50% Pretty Much The Same Exact Thing If the Shipping is More than the Item! NO?
