eBay

esg-enterprises · ‎06-06-2025

Had a Freightliner part listed, part number, general model/year range. Buyer asks will this fit a Cascadia?

I reply I am not sure, I would suggest contacting your dealer. He messages me a day or two later and says its a 2000.

I reply from my additional research, which I did, your truck is outside the year range, but again, call a dealer.

Two days later he buys it and a week later he opens a remorse return. He has no problem paying for the label apparently. But eBay wouldn't want him to have any accountability here.

We motor sellers are now equivalent to a department store dressing room, only we eat shipping, so that's not even accurate, with the buyer having 0 repercussions for their stupidity or laziness.

movieman630 · ‎06-07-2025

So when you sell a cast iron part like a tie rod end for $20 and the shipping eats up $8-$9 the fees eat up another 30% and you take away maybe $5 profit if you're lucky. Now I have to pay $4-$4.50 on a return label if they just find it $1 cheaper elsewhere or whatever their reason is.

This is a lose lose situation. A lot of us are going to be forced to let the buyer keep the item and just issue full refunds on those returns. Better to save $4 than lose more money and get back a part that even if you can re-sell it you can't make back your losses.

This will become a new scam. Buyers will learn this with certain parts and it will become a thing to know that a seller won't have any profit margin left and will most likely just give you your money back and you get to keep the part. If we can do the math, they can do the math.

If anyone's interested I know an ebay seller who has an entire garage full of vintage Ford & GM parts going back to the 30s who's looking for offers on the whole bag.

esg-enterprises · ‎06-07-2025

@carlmarxx and I'm sure the response was absolutely nothing.

carlmarxx · ‎06-07-2025

You got point on that. It is a hit miss on getting the right eBay rep .

movieman630 · ‎06-07-2025

Ebay just makes these changes without considering us, ever. They frame it like they're doing the seller a favor, which is hilarious. Sorry ebay but making me have to manually change over 1300 listings description block texts is not doing me a favor. They just made me have to do hours upon hours of updating work with ZERO compensation, again.

I've been a seller on here for over 20 years. I've been asking for some category updates FOREVER. Want to help sellers, here's a couple suggestions I've had that have been ignored.

How about updating the Collectibles:Militaria category to show the last TWO CONFLICTS!? The Current Militaria category goes from 2001 to TODAY! The last campaign category is Operation Desert Storm in 1991, which I'm pretty sure means this category hasn't been updated since Ebay's inception.

Do you know how many times the military has changed uniforms in the past 25-30 years? Shoving all those changes into one category is ridiculous! The whole "Current Militaria" category is so oversaturated it's no wonder people have a hard time finding anything! Maybe add Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom?

How about a DARK THEME for the main site? My eyes can't handle a white background online and I'm not the only one. IS it really so hard to make the main site dark as an option? Every single other website can do this easily.

How about fixing the problem with being able to ship patches with ESE in some categories? I can't ship with ESE in the Military Academy category (why not). Military academies HAVE PATCHES!!! And why can't I use the ESE in the 1976-1989 Militaria category? NO patches during that time frame? I can select it when creating a listing but if someone buys a patch for $2 in that category I CAN'T PURCHASE THE LABEL!!! That's a huge problem when shipping is over $4!!

How about bringing back the Vintage Automotive category? Or at the very least adding a new CONDITION of "NEW OLD STOCK" for those parts and exclude them from the Free Returns. Put some perimeters on it like a date range or something! This is a standard term used in Automotive... BUT EBAY DOESN'T USE IT! NOS is a thing!

gurlcat · ‎06-07-2025

@redlinear wrote:
So, is everybody ending their listings and changing them to "used" yet?

Why would everybody do that? I'm confused by this whole thread. Is eBay about to require free returns on New items, and I missed the anouncement???
EDIT: Never mind I just found it. ONLY motors.

fern*wood · ‎06-07-2025

@gurlcat wrote:
@redlinear wrote:
So, is everybody ending their listings and changing them to "used" yet?
Why would everybody do that? I'm confused by this whole thread. Is eBay about to require free returns on New items, and I missed the anouncement???

Starting July 15 it will be a requirement in certain categories like new parts/access in ebay motors. It was in the June Seller news.

gurlcat · ‎06-07-2025

Not jewelry though, right?

redlinear · ‎06-09-2025

@gurlcat wrote:
Not jewelry though, right?

Not...yet....

redlinear · ‎06-09-2025

I just go back to what's going to happen.
New parts will now be listed as used in order to circumvent this policy.
eBay will not (can not) enforce or police this. Just like Item Specifics Spamming.
Buyers did not understand the 1st Guaranteed Fit / Free Returns policy.
Buyers won't understand this one either (used parts being excluded).
The next update to this new policy will be extending it to ALL auto parts.
I sure wish I had somewhere else to go

carlmarxx · ‎06-09-2025

I posted about increased jump to listing's for buyers pay on local pickup only . which they will get buyers out side local pickup , then arranged shipping & no free returns . At some point ebay will get hit with class action suit that will also show proof of ebay's arbitration is nothing but a paper tiger worthless .