What Good Til Cancelled Did To Me

[atari_king]

Okay, so I went ahead and tried to move from Buy It Now 5-7day listings to auctions because the GTC is useless to me with the items I sell.  Well I did sell one item in an auction but guess what, the buyer did not pay!  Now it all came back to me why I never use auctions.  Buy It Now that requires immediate payment is the best.  I list, I sell, I get paid, the ebay god gets paid and then I ship all within 24 hours or less.  I don't have time to monitor if a buyer has paid yet.  I am going to use what I have left for listings and then I am going to put ebay on the shelf so ebay will get ZERO from me.  Way to go ebay!

[m60driver]

Unless you have another selling account you appear to be a small seller like myself.  So manually ending listings near the 29 day mark is not all that onerous a task. As far as leaving, well it only takes a fraction of a new Chinese seller to replace your, or my, revenue to Ebay.  And Ebay has decided that their corporate growth strategy is to become the Harbor Freight of everything in the online landscape.  We are just allowed to hang on for the ride for a small cost.

[extraordinarilyyou]

Oh, we matter to eBay. It is the small sellers with unusual hard to find items that made eBay, eBay. It is small sellers that get eBay free publicity. A Jesus toast selling for a ridiculous amount of money. A rare this that or other selling for a ridiculous amount of money. It is not the box stores that do that for eBay, it is small sellers that bring in buyers looking for things from childhood, things for the collections, movie studios looking for period props, tradesmen looking for affordable but quality tools, all sorts of small sellers matter to eBay. Guess what happens if eBay loses that market? The rest of the market will collapse under the weight of cheap Chinese knockoffs.

[fern*wood]

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@extraordinarilyyou wrote:
Oh, we matter to eBay. It is the small sellers with unusual hard to find items that made eBay, eBay. It is small sellers that get eBay free publicity. A Jesus toast selling for a ridiculous amount of money. A rare this that or other selling for a ridiculous amount of money. It is not the box stores that do that for eBay, it is small sellers that bring in buyers looking for things from childhood, things for the collections, movie studios looking for period props, tradesmen looking for affordable but quality tools, all sorts of small sellers matter to eBay. Guess what happens if eBay loses that market? The rest of the market will collapse under the weight of cheap Chinese knockoffs.

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This post sounds about right if today's date is March 2004 instead of 2019.