Leaving Ebay : selling and buying

[ljahope1956]

I have sold and purchased on Ebay for years. No longer. I am a small seller without a store and always found Ebay to be a great way to get rid of things I no longer wanted. No longer. Ebay is burying small sellers to the point where the products are very seldom seen. That's fine, but Ebay will soon find out that they can not compete with everyone else selling the same items alot cheaper. I have started selling items on Bonanza and doing well. As for buying online : try any other site but Ebay and you will find the product cheaper every time. 

[chrysylys]

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@ljahope1956 wrote:

Ebay is burying small sellers to the point where the products are very seldom seen. 

As for buying online : try any other site but Ebay and you will find the product cheaper every time. 

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They'll never openly admit it, but their actions over the last 10 years have clearly been leaning in that direction in the opinions of many.

I comparison shop several places and I still (usually) find the bast value over all here.  I have all but stopped buying on A due to their tactics across the web and other places.  They're simply too big and do not need my money.

[itsjustasprain]

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@ljahope1956 wrote:

I have sold and purchased on Ebay for years. No longer. I am a small seller without a store and always found Ebay to be a great way to get rid of things I no longer wanted. No longer.  

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You said that back in 2013 as well. 

https://community.ebay.com/t5/eBay-Unfair-Unforgiving-and/problem-buyers/gpm-p/17308335 

Youre not only still here but i see you have curernt listings started as recently as yesterday.

Youre entitled to complain about anything and everything but I dont get the reason for the claims of leaving when you are clearly not. I would just sell both here and wherever you else you want to sell -- not the same item in more than one place at once though - and see which places work best for you. Definitely here is where you will find the biggest audience even if you have more competition to worry about.

[slippinjimmy]

eBay doesn't need to bury sellers when sellers can bury themselves!

Maybe you used to actually list things with a little effort but your recent listings have virtually no descriptions, total lack of of details and severe absence of keywords in the Titles.

As far as finding some things cheaper elsewhere, the same could be said of every merchant (or site) online or offline. As a buyer I find lots of things to buy on eBay that are cheaper than anywhere else and as a seller I like to be on a site where I don't have to have the lowest price in the world and still have plenty of sales.

[ed8108]

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@ljahope1956 wrote:

I have sold and purchased on Ebay for years. No longer. I am a small seller without a store and always found Ebay to be a great way to get rid of things I no longer wanted. No longer. Ebay is burying small sellers to the point where the products are very seldom seen.

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Self interest dictates that most sellers will move to where they will realize the highest profitability and have a greater number of sales.