I have been selling my vintage camera collection on ebay for more than five years. Selling goes very weak from April 2018 then even worse today. I lost a lot of vauluable vintage camera collection; they were sold unbelivably cheap in case the start price was 99 U.S.D. Some dealer got them with a smile face, which have never happened before in the past years. I had some discussion with other sellers then we have more or less similar situation.
My question is that now ebay is the slaughterhouse of dealers all over the world? Are most potential buyers gone and only come back to have a look close to Christmas? What is your comment?
In addition, buyers ( from China, Hongkong and Macao) might open the case then ask full refund one month or longer after goods were deliver. The reasons for refund are mostly ridiculous because my camera and lens were vintage one ( 50-90 years old). It doesn't make sense to ask such an old mechanical cameras and lens to match new and boxed Nikon ones on the shutter speed and surface cleaning. However, this kind of request goes strong in recent months. I got similar return requests up to 40% of all sales from these countries, which has never happened before.
From April 2018, I lost a lot of money on ebay. I am wondering if I have to close my account not only because selling in States goes weak but also returned requests fom China, Hongkong and Macao now go frequent.
