ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

[the_designer]

IT’S OVER, IT'S THE ONLY WAY

I have read and read many comments looking for solutions to my issues with eBay and find there are none. I have now had enough of sales what seems to be controlled by eBay. I have had enough of eBay asking me to spend more money by promoting listings to generate sales. I refuse to pay extra money for something I am already paying for. In my opinion I pay for a shop that should make all my listing viewable all of the time, not when eBay feels like it. I have had enough of paying 10% to eBay for postage and packaging. I have had enough of eBay deciding in the buyers favor when I produce 100% evidence that the buyer is a liar. I have had enough of eBay giving my money away to buyers who are liars. I have had enough of eBay making it easy for buyer to commit fraud. I have had enough of eBay making these decisions without looking at both sides of the story. I have had enough of being told when to post. I have had enough being told item arrived late when it was posted on time; I have had enough of telling them I am not a postman. I have had enough of buyers being allowed to leave negative feedback without the seller having the same privilege. I have had enough of paying out of my pocket so eBay can keep a reputation of a stupid money back guarantees. I do not know what is happening to eBay, but I tell you this, I have had enough.

[spittser]

I hope you haven't tried to ship 70lbs in that padded flat rate envelope. If you will look on it, you will see it has a 4lb maximum weight limit. Now, the medium and large flat rate boxes allow for up to 70 lbs. I've always wondered what someone could fit into those boxes that weighs 70lbs. They are quite flimsy. I did ship about 50lbs of dumbbell plates in a large flat rate one time. I think I wrapped it in a whole roll of tape. I could just see some clerk dropping it and everything just busting loose.

[southern*sweet*tea]

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@spittser wrote:

I hope you haven't tried to ship 70lbs in that padded flat rate envelope. If you will look on it, you will see it has a 4lb maximum weight limit.

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The four pound limit is for international shipments. The 70 pound limit stands for PFREs just like all the other flat rate products, although I can't imagine something weighing 70 pounds in one of those envelopes.

I've shipped 8-10 pounds of magazines in a padded flat with no problems.

[srhfc]

Promoting your listing is EXPENSIVE!.....so yes, I agree, if E-Bay would like to make more money from us sellers, they can automatically promote for us....not keep asking us to lower our prices...lol

I believe E-Bay is feeling the pains now...they are losing money too!!!...so something has to give on their end. I've always believed FREE LISTINGS will come and a reduce 6 to 8% final value fees will be coming. I'm optimistic...that E-Bay has seen the last of the "good days" and are now cornered to make moves to protect and help sellers...something they haven't had to concentrate on for YEARS and YEARS...helping sellers profit.

E-Bay is ALL about the Buyers....and now, that is changing...you can feel it in the Air...tonight.

[lovett-1000]

That is true but it can be remove in a flash. I am like them e bay is fixing to see a lot of sellers dump them at one time. May be at any time but will be soon for lots of us. 

[crescentstation]

I read this and then I woke up.

[gracieallen01]

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@srhfc wrote:

Promoting your listing is EXPENSIVE!.....so yes, I agree, if E-Bay would like to make more money from us sellers, they can automatically promote for us....not keep asking us to lower our prices...lol

I believe E-Bay is feeling the pains now...they are losing money too!!!...so something has to give on their end. I've always believed FREE LISTINGS will come and a reduce 6 to 8% final value fees will be coming. I'm optimistic...that E-Bay has seen the last of the "good days" and are now cornered to make moves to protect and help sellers...something they haven't had to concentrate on for YEARS and YEARS...helping sellers profit.

E-Bay is ALL about the Buyers....and now, that is changing...you can feel it in the Air...tonight.

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Here we call that Santa Ana winds - hot air off the desert(s).

[wheredidiputthatremote]

Have you ever seen taxes go down?

[popeye3165]

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@the_designer wrote:

I do not know what is happening to eBay, but I tell you this, I have had enough.

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Sadly it isn't JUST eBay it is eCommerce in general the mega corporations are/have taking control of the internet and they are turning it into Main Street America all corporate logos NO MORE mom and pop shops. Eventually almost everything you do on the internet will cost you money it's already happening.

[johnrj1226]

Just  read that  4 lb. limit  for a FRPE  and that applies to international shipments as stated on the envelope.

No I would -

1.  Never try to ship 70 lb.s in one - but the USPS says it is good to go for domestic shipping.

2.  Never  will ship or have shipped any thing that even approached 10 lbs via USPS in any  packaging.  Max weight we have shipped as I recall was around 8 lbs.

[johnrj1226]

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@wheredidiputthatremote wrote:

Have you ever seen taxes go down?

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Yes -  property taxes during the  last  recession and  previous  significant recessions like the one in 1981.   Georgia eliminated  the  sales tax on food  items some years ago but some time after Sept. 1996  - that is when we moved here from Texas.  Federal income taxes have  gone down within the  last 2 years - our son a commercial  electrician for 14 years enjoys the  larger pay check.  

Certain there were others but no near the number of  tax increases.  Government folks forget how to reduce costs but know well how to  increase  revenue by increasing taxes - they  just luv to spend money  like  sailors  that get some shore leave after 6 months on the briny or  just out of boot camp.

[the_designer]

BYE BYE
I have now cancelled my shop and ended all my listings. I have been on eBay for some time now, but like I have said, enough is enough. I have now got my own web site with my own terms and conditions. I agree I will not get the traffic like eBay but at least I will be running my own business. I will not have eBay giving my money away to buyers when they are in the wrong. I will not be paying to uphold eBay’s money back guarantee. I will save 10% on my postage. I will not have eBay telling me my items are lost, damaged or arriving late when the fault is with the courier. They will not listen when I tell them I am not a postman. I will not have eBay asking for further payments to promote my listings when I am already paying to have them listed. I will not have eBay controlling how my listings are made viewable. I will not have to spend hours keep reading terms and conditions and their changes. It will be me who runs my business. When eBay wake up and stop the money back guarantee that has turned eBay into an Aladdin’s cave, stop charging 10% p&p and allow a seller to run their business with their own terms and condition I just maybe reconsidered. Until then enough is enough.

[rigsbiz3]

After many year on eBay I finally closed my account also.  Sooo much fraud.  Just wasn’t worth it.  I got my own sight now on Shopify.  It was easy and because I sell rare items I got traffic quickly.  I will recover in time with much less hassles.  Good luck to you.

[trukur_0]

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Clearly, you have had enough.

[lonewanderer1553]

Okay. Then stop using eBay. It's not like there aren't alternative services out there.

Regardless of whatever it is that you're doing wrong, the rest of us are selling just fine. Maybe you need to consider a.) that the merchandise you're trying to sell just isn't as popular now as it initially was and b.) that repeatedly using the same methods and tactics just isn't getting you anywhere and you need to try doing something different for a change.

But I suppose you could also take your merchandise and preferred sales tactics and try repeating them on some other platform instead. I can almost guarantee that you'll get the same results.

[trukur_0]

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@the_designer wrote:
BYE BYE
I have now cancelled my shop and ended all my listings. I have been on eBay for some time now, but like I have said, enough is enough. I have now got my own web site with my own terms and conditions. I agree I will not get the traffic like eBay but at least I will be running my own business. I will not have eBay giving my money away to buyers when they are in the wrong. I will not be paying to uphold eBay’s money back guarantee. I will save 10% on my postage. I will not have eBay telling me my items are lost, damaged or arriving late when the fault is with the courier. They will not listen when I tell them I am not a postman. I will not have eBay asking for further payments to promote my listings when I am already paying to have them listed. I will not have eBay controlling how my listings are made viewable. I will not have to spend hours keep reading terms and conditions and their changes. It will be me who runs my business. When eBay wake up and stop the money back guarantee that has turned eBay into an Aladdin’s cave, stop charging 10% p&p and allow a seller to run their business with their own terms and condition I just maybe reconsidered. Until then enough is enough.

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And you may see why ebay treats the buyer the way they do but you are young and have never been through a really long term sales drought, especially one caused with one's own attitude but I have... Mine started in 2009, just months after the October of 2008 crash that marked the start of the Great Recession.

Years and years of slapping those scamming buyers around and telling them how it is because here in my business *I* am the king, ebay is an afterthought to me, I ran a business long before I started to sell here...

And boy I told those punk lying cheats and the wise guys and all the rest of the smartypants too!

They got the message and left me alone, all of them.

By the time it was over I barely had a trickle of customers, and once the reality started to dawn on me I got really, really scared.  I understood that day why CEO's were jumping out of high rise windows.

And I know it's not funny but that just gave me a chuckle.

Yes really, I literally just LOL'd a little at the bit about the CEO's defenestrating.

And again...

Ok so...

Anyway, there I was thinking I've been through hard times before, certainly this one looked worse than ever but how bad could it be, a year or two of slowness and then back to high times, right?

Sounded good to me.

2009 came and went, then 2010 and 2011 too...

2012 rolled in and I noticed my sales had not picked up any.

Now I am telling you in all those years I got good at kissing tail, man I got to where I could pucker up on demand!

The customers weren't having it, I had destroyed my reputation.

Another long, dry year went by.

2014 was the first time I saw a glimmer of light in the darkness, I had a few more customers that year but I dared not get excited... 2015 things started to actually pick up, let me tell you I was still nervous in 2016, by 2017 I was starting to think it might be all right and by 2018 I was working harder than I have ever worked in my whole life, I ended up in the hospital because of chronic injuries from work related physical stress and I was grateful I could work!

Sadly I think you may need to experience what I went through in order to learn from it.

Hopefully you're still in business by the time it's all over.

I almost didn't make it.

Blood, sweat and tears my friend.

Skin in the game.

It's real.