If control is taken away, it stands to reason that managing all of our items will be more difficult.
You must remember that ebay seller updates are made to benefit ebay and no one else.
All of their policies which hinder sellers, benefit ebay.
They are a company which the bottom line is to make money NO matter what.
There is no ethics, no nothing, just pure greed. Fact.
They have meetings and try to think up more way, to skim more money from the sellers,
and putting that money into ebay's bank account. Fact.
This latest update about good til canceled benefits ebay and I will show you how.
First let me show you how it is bad for sellers.
No flexibility.
If you sell the item locally while you are waiting months on end for it to sell on ebay, then you
have to cancel the item. If you cancel the item, you gets charged fees even though you
did not sell the item thru ebay. They have now found a way to collect fee money on a sale
that doesn't even involve them.
Most of us cannot or do not have space to store items indefinetely til it sells, so me along with other sellers take
all our unsold stuff to a local auction or facebook marketplace or craigslist it.
If you are going to list on ebay, you better make sure it will sell or don't bother selling it there.
Again, this does not benefit the sellers at all. the people that run ebay do not know anything about
selling things on the internet, all they know is ways to make ebay money at the expense of
the sellers that list on ebay. NOTE: they refuse to collect any kind of fees or anything from buyers.
All you have to do is look at the lopsided return policies to see that.
you think free returns and scams benefit any of us sellers? No. But they do benefit ebay.
You think free shipping benefits sellers, NO, but it does benefit ebay along with the buyers.
The flexibility for the sellers is almost completely gone, and ebay is in total control because
they warp the system to benefit them, and not you.
This is all they think about in those meetings.
When was the last time ebay has done anything to benefit the seller?
Seller hub? of course not....I don't even use that, because it's too slow.
The only way this will change, is if a new better ebay is invented by someone and put on the internet.
That would end the monopoly, but it would also mark the end of ebay because by then it would
be too late for ebay as all the sellers would have moved to this new online auction oasis.
It's very strange no one has challenged ebay and invented that wheel that would be much better.
Ebay was so good in the beginning, and it's shocking how bad it's gotten over the years.
