I am packing my loads to get away from this platform.

[ony_chine]

I don't believe eBay has genuine interest of sellers. They are constantly pressing sellers down on this platform. The marketers/handlers of this platform are clearly clueless and lack creativity. If you don't know what to do to make money and still sustain small businesses on your platform, outsource your creative department to people who will not be doing copy and paste from AMAZON and be hurting many small businesses.  If you are very creative, you should have formed another platform which can copy Amazon and stand but because you are too lazy to think, you keep on jumping from top to bottom, or from bottom to top and rendering very low-quality services to the sellers. 

[dbfolks166mt]

     You would be correct in your assessment and this applies to eBay, Amazon and any other publically traded company in existence. Their number one goal is to maximize the profit of their investors and nothing more. How they achieve that varies across companies and the degree to which it impacts both buyers and sellers will vary but the goal is still the same. 

[inhawaii]

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@ony_chine wrote:

I don't believe eBay has genuine interest of sellers. 

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You are correct.

They are not here to make you feel warm and fuzzy.

They are here for the same reason most of us are ... to make money.

I sincerely hope you find a better platform out there.

Good luck.

[hartungcards]

Packing your loads?

[natoman777]

eBay is good for what it is.  It is NOT amazon and is not trying to be.  If you have every used FBA, you know it is an entire different way of selling.  For me personally, eBay is the best platform for what I am selling.  It isn't perfect, but neither is Amazon

[soh.maryl]

The equivalent of picking up my marbles and moving to another location.

[katzrul15]

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@soh.maryl wrote:

The equivalent of picking up my marbles and moving to another location.

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I learn something new on here every day!  lol

To me "loads" means something else and when you google that phraseology........woo boy!

[buyselljack2016]

should have said packin up my shoes to beat-feet

[katzrul15]

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@buyselljack2016 wrote:

should have said packin up my shoes to beat-feet

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Yes!  That one, I would get!

[ony_chine · Accepted solution]

I agree that people are in business to make money but the one of eBay is such that they do not consider at all the impact it has on sellers.  For instance, eBay was built by the small sellers who source the item, clean item, store item, ship item; the only thing eBay does is hosting, we pay for promoting the item and also pay for the hosting.  What value does eBay add to sellers if not by making sure they sell? Small sellers fed this platform and made this platform what it is today, which value has eBay added to small sellers?  What eBay is doing in principle is biting the fingers which fed eBay. Small sellers made this platform.  Amazon source, store, ship and cover almost the entire cycle for their sellers

[ony_chine]

Iam here to hold them accountable, we are all here to make money, but we will not allow a platform we are feeding to bite our fingers. I know how much I have spent on this platform especially with never ending flimsy recommendations, I have not recovered my money 

[mtgraves7984]

What value does eBay add to sellers if not by making sure they sell?

@ony_chine 

eBay can't make sure that a seller's items actually sell. The value of selling on eBay is the number of eyeballs here. 👀

[Anonymous]

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@katzrul15 wrote:

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@soh.maryl wrote:

The equivalent of picking up my marbles and moving to another location.

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I learn something new on here every day!  lol

To me "loads" means something else and when you google that phraseology........woo boy!

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@katzrul15 

Wow, my coffee went flying out of my mouth. I need to wipe parts of my monitor.

[ony_chine]

Facts, we will leave this platform for good and leave their clueless sense of business operations which is parasitic. We will move over to a mutual creative and productive relationship. This platform has consistently progressed in consuming deep into the sweat of small businesses with no form of compensation.  

[inhawaii]

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@ony_chine wrote:

Iam here to hold them accountable, we are all here to make money, but we will not allow a platform we are feeding to bite our fingers. I know how much I have spent on this platform especially with never ending flimsy recommendations, I have not recovered my money 

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Then you're doing something wrong because most of us ARE making money.

You're holding ebay responsible for recommendations that are optional?

If these recommendations  didn't work for you,

why not learn from your mistakes and not use them in the future?

Bottom line is, if millions of other sellers can make it work, why can't you?

I wish you luck in the future.