How did eBay become the "beast of burden" for small sellers?

[ten_o_nine]

It used to be fun to sell and buy on the site, but now it is stressful, I am sorry to say.

[luckythewinner]

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@ten_o_nine wrote:

It used to be fun to sell and buy on the site, but now it is stressful, I am sorry to say.

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I still find it fun to sell on this site and do not find it stressful at all. 

By the way, a "beast of burden" is an animal that does work for you and makes your life easier. 

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beast%20of%20burden

[robar_s_dwhe1ey]

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@ten_o_nine wrote:

It used to be fun to sell and buy on the site, but now it is stressful, I am sorry to say.

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I feel that 3 things have made eBay stressful for small buyers: oversaturation, promoted listings, and eBay's relentless buyer protection.

With everyone owning a smartphone,  many people have jumped on the reseller bandwagon.  Back then, you had to snap the pics and connect your camera to upload them.  Reselling was kind of gatekept to those few.

Watch any video on Youtube about eBay selling and you'll see that eBay sides with the buyer 95% of the time, even if they're obviously scamming the seller.  Very unfair policies.

[lakefor94]

I still find selling on eBay better than, easy peasy. Nothing has changed for me since I went fulltime online sales in 2017. Piece of cake.

Addendum: my audience is quite different from your audience.  

[gloryglorygifts]

Compared to the other marketplaces we have sold on, except for Shop Where You Live, this place is a country club.

I'm sorry that you are having issues. 

[sreu3058]

I wouldn’t call trying to please strangers ‘fun’, ever, but neither is it ‘beast of burden’ if you like your  products/believe they are good.

Hanging around this forum reading all the nightmare headlines doesn’t help boost morale, either.

(Edit for spelling)

[gurlcat]

It's still as fun to me as when I started, which I only wish I did earlier. 

[inhawaii]

I still enjoy selling on ebay.

That doesn't keep me from **bleep**ing about having to pack orders every night after a long, hard days work at my full time job.    😉

[fbusoni]

eBay is my beast of burden.  I just drive stuff to the post office.  

[mam98031]

It is sad you are feeling that way, but sometimes we humans just get burned out and need a change.  I neither thing of Ebay as a "beast" or a "burden".  I sell here because I want to sell here.  If that changes and I start feeling as you do, I would absolutely make some life's changes.  

Ebay was a wonderful avenue for generating some money for our family over the years.  It enabled me to stop working outside the home and raise my own children.  I have a very supportive husband, but we still needed a bit more income other than his and I was leaving a high paying job.  I actually made more than my husband back then.  But we both felt the same about the kids.  I have never once regretted that decision nor has my husband, no matter how tight things got.

Now I'm an empty nester and I've got they turned out to be fantastic Young adults.  They both do what they can to give back to their communities which always makes us proud.

Now of course it is not nor has it ever been stress free to sell here or any other site for that matter and I sell on two other sites as well.  But no job is stress free that I've found or worked at over the years.

I wish you well in whatever you decide to do.  Just do what is right for you.

[christworks]

Like anything we do, sometimes we just need a break  - a time to recapture what ignited the passion in us to start with.  Other times, however, we need to spend our break trying to figure out whether the object of our passion changed or....whether we have.