You said it, when sellers post, even if they use a posting ID.... One just donesnt
know.
A seller could have several active accounts, and be selling thousands daily, or, they could not have anything active at all.
We come here for information, mostly. (Although ebay can be awfully lonely, and it does offer a slight degree of companionship, not exactly like having work friends, but.... Something)
That is the unfortunate nature of the Internet. We could be "catfished" in a manner of speaking at any time. (Not exactly correct use of the term but...)
Everything here needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Everyone has different experiences. Many of us have different viewpoints. A Lot of us were crazy about ebay. It's like being mistreated by a lover, in a way. We don't understand what happened what did we do wrong and it is hurtful. Some seem to hang on to that ebay love for no apparent reason. We can glean bits of a person's life, but we literally do not know each other at all. To us Thats the worst about selling & buying on ebay. (Well, and a sort of laughable amount of $$for the work)
We tend to remember the bad experiences more than the good. (I have read it takes ten really good experiences to counteract the affects of one bad one, leaving us a Liitle ahead on ebay for the most part) But the bad experiences are what we hear of here the most.
Yes, things have changed. They change all the time. The questions we seem to want the answered to are, "how or even can I adjust to these changes? "what can I do to make this (ebay) work? Am I doing something wrong? How is everyone else doing? And what are they doing? Should I try something else? Where? What?" We hate the cat and mouse information game with ebay. They have so much sales info that would be great to have....without wasting so much of our lives trying to figure things out.
Without a posting ID, one becomes vulnerable to Whatever is out there. But, also leaves a seller open to suggestions, (wanted or not) & assorted undesirable events. So, to each their own choice.
But with a posting Id, one is more free to say.... Whatever, without information about themselves. (Not that the info or opinion is not useful)
As to not knowing about posting IDs, We have spoken to ebay sellers (yes we see the same people at the same places, all of us desperately chasing a dollar) who don't even know there is a community page, or a Spring and Fall update. Never mind knowing about posting IDs, or the "blues" or any thing else some of us follow . So, it makes sense that a long time successful seller may not know about posting IDs. Maybe those who are blissfully unaware of these things are having better sales, there is no indication that those who spend time on the boards have a better outcome. We would love to to see those statistics.
Very few actually ever come to the boards. How many? Is there some sort of common trait to those that do? What % of sellers ever post? How many just squeeze out a tiny bit of cash in a year? How many make tens of thousands? How many quit every year? Ebay has that info, not us.
And thanks from. To all who share however they do so.
We at this end are wandering in the dark.
And tired, frustrated.
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