Good Riddance Ebay

[big.g]

After 21 years as a seller on ebay. Ebay  has showen me they suck for the last time. Ebay  is for sure all about the buyers that can not read anything on an auction but click here to bid . It does not matter that you waste all your time as a seller listing items and  describing your items to the best of your abbilities and then take as many pictures as you can to show the item. why even have this anyway if it does not matter and you deside to side with some incompatant buyer? Well I am done with it. And hello amazon I should have made this change years ago.  

[dalo4242]

Amazon is worse...and there isn't much of a market for beat up old vintage toys there

[castlemagicmemories]

Some issues are not confined to Ebay. The grass is not always greener elsewhere.

And Amazon's fees are higher than Ebay. They have non reading buyers, too.

[mg152]

I believe toys are gated on amazon and they have to be new so I don’t think that’ll work out. It’s $1000 per brand ungating fee non refundable and you have to buy straight from the toy companies.

[adkhighker]

Your feedback is pristine, so you're doing something right. I looked at your recently sold items, and the pictures look good. With the exception of one toy that sold for over a hundred dollars (the one with the huge bright red description all in caps, ugh), most of your items are in the $1 to $10 range. I'm not knocking it, but I would think it would be hard to make a go of it selling items in that price range and even harder selling them anywhere else. From what I read on this forum, it seems like a lot of the problem buyers are the ones who buy something for really cheap. 

You seem to have good knowledge and a niche for vintage toys, so why not try to stick to buying and selling the more expensive ones so it makes it more worth your while for your efforts? For hard to find antique toys, you won't get more in any other online venue than what you can get for them on ebay. 

[hillbillymedia]

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@big.g wrote:

After 21 years as a seller on ebay. Ebay  has showen me they suck for the last time. Ebay  is for sure all about the buyers that can not read anything on an auction but click here to bid . It does not matter that you waste all your time as a seller listing items and  describing your items to the best of your abbilities and then take as many pictures as you can to show the item. why even have this anyway if it does not matter and you deside to side with some incompatant buyer? Well I am done with it. And hello amazon I should have made this change years ago.  

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I understand your frustration but my experience is that more buyers than not do read the ad and do look at the pictures and many, frankly, won`t buy without them. If you have an issue with a buyer or need suggestions, this forum is a good place to come for help before things get out of hand.

[mypostingid15]

I trust the OP knows what they are doing, they have been a member since 1998 and I don't see anywhere that they asked for advice, even if they did, I don't see any good advice, someone posting doesn't mean it's time to tear them up, some of responses here need to be better than that.

[adkhighker]

Wouldn't it be better if you directly addressed whoever it is you're referring to, rather than generalizing, so we know what you're talking about? From what I see, other than maybe the first response sounding a little crass, most of the posters who responded are just trying to encourage the OP, not tear him or her up.

[garyski$]

Agree. Today was my day that Ebay proved to me that they are useless. 8 years on, over 6000 items sold and $198k in total sales and DONE. Sadly, what this company fails to realize is that we, the sellers generate the revenue for them yet they treat us like **bleep**. 

[18704d]

"... why even have this anyway if it does not matter and you deside to side with some incompatant buyer?"

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fwiw

eBay 'sides' with buyers for 30 days.

Paypal will 'side' with them for a full 180 days.

Leaving eBay may not avoid this.

Good luck,

Lynn

[rainbowcolorz]

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@garyski$ wrote:

Agree. Today was my day that Ebay proved to me that they are useless. 8 years on, over 6000 items sold and $198k in total sales and DONE. Sadly, what this company fails to realize is that we, the sellers generate the revenue for them yet they treat us like <snip>

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I just looked at your items and you have lots of bids, nice things, great feedback and in your profile you say you'll be listing many new items this year and you thanked your wonderful buyers.     Sounds to me like eBay has treated you well.   

[18704d]

"8 years on, over 6000 items sold and $198k in total sales and DONE. Sadly, what this company fails to realize is that we, the sellers generate the revenue for them yet they .."

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Oddly,

my buyers generate all the revenue that I use to pay my eBay fees.

I'm not listing here for nothing.

I almost wonder if eBay knows this?

?

Lynn

[dinpavent0]

My husband just had this problem. I did a listing for him. Description was two sentences. In the very first sentence I said what the materials were of the items. So buyer gets items, messages and says to his surprise only one item was pewter and other were plastic. Then says in same message, well I read listing after receiving and it was hidden!! The first sentence is hidden !! Seriously then asked how he was going to rectify this. So he said send it back and I will refund. Jerk then 4 days later opens a case for item not described so my husband has to pay for return shipping even thought we did nothing wrong. It sucks.

[m60driver]

 I was on retail years before Ebay arrived on the scene and I have been selling on Enay since 1999.  There is nothing specific to Ebay about getting abused by buyers or vendors or banks or even salesfolks.  It is all just part of retail.  Long before Ebay I had customers return items they broke.  Long before Ebay I had "unauthroized use of card" notices from credit card companies. And my list could go on.  As we say in retail "the masses are (insert best rhyming word)". 

[rdj831]

Many people use the phone app, which is problematic. The user has to hunt for the description because the short paraphrase they use shows buyers terms from the middle of the description. Not the relevant information to that item. I asked my wife to try it and she seemed to think there wasnt a description.

People are more visual today and assume much based on just photos.

It would be helpful if they just showed the description in total without having to hunt for the tab to click. Critical thinking is not a favorite of society these days. It has to be made simple or it doesn't work. But then again there are those who won't read it anyway...