Who else is leaving eBay rather than give them access to their bank account?

[wile*coyote*super*genius]

This latest move by eBay is the last straw for me. Based on past interactions with eBay I will never give them access to my bank account.  I sell very little on eBay these days as I have found that between CL and FB Marketplace I can find a home for nearly anything I want to sell, get paid in cash and not have to ship anything. I know that there are categories, such as collectibles, where eBay offers a unique marketplace, but for me the site has become an expensive pain in the butt.

Then there are the ever escalating final value fees. I was outraged when eBay started charging a final value fee on shipping and now they are charging it on sales tax! I'm not sure that is legal. The biggest change over time has been the increase in the point at which the fees decrease. Now to sell an item worth a couple thousand dollars that costs $200 to ship and sales tax of 8% I would pay nearly 15% of my item's sale price.

eBay has hit the limits of its growth and sadly the only way for them to increase revenues will be to keep on jacking up the cost of selling.  Oh well, there are a growing number of other options.

[katzrul15]

E-bay could better communicate on a lot of things.

I did receive several emails on MP - but maybe that was for the Sellers they were inviting to join?  Not really certain.  As that was months ago, I cannot go back to the emails to see exactly what they said.

7+ months and no real issues, minus this weekend, but even then, resolved quickly.  

When I start reading thread after thread about how e-bay removed thousands of dollars from Sellers' checking accounts, I guess we can all decide then if there is an issue.  Many Sellers in MP over a year and I don't remember seeing even 1 thread about e-Bay taking monies randomly from Seller accounts.  

[fashunu4eeuh]

”eBay has hit the limits of its growth and sadly the only way for them to increase revenues will be to keep on jacking up the cost of selling...”

Disagree with this statement. EBay is a global behemoth. There are still many international markets it can penetrate. What are you basing this statement on?

What we read in these forums is just a drop in the bucket of an eBay ocean. I don’t think eBay is in danger of folding. It is not perfect by any means, but i think we tend to forget it is a worldwide enterprise.

[mrdutch1001]

Have been buying/selling in person(locally) for over 50 years, so I am one of those who has enough experience to be confident in selling items that way, so FB Marketplace & other local venues are easy peasy...

Am fortunate to have had so many good experiences over the many years of selling locally.

(I won't do CL though as that site is full of scammers, and persons from anywhere in & out of one's own area/country will respond to the ads on that site....)

To me there is more of a risk selling & shipping items outside ones' province/state/country now, more than ever.....

One has to consider the type of items/products one is selling and then determine the best marketplace to list/advertise them.

[katzrul15]

@mrdutch1001  - thanks for your post!  I am just not keen on meeting with someone "live" to transfer the "wares" so the speak.  lol

DS, doesn't think twice about it.  They stand there, exchange cash/money or venmo or whatever and all is good.

More of a "stigma" thing, I guess and I really don't want people coming to our home to pickup aunt lucy's teapot set.  (btw - what do you put the items they bought in?  A bag, a box - just hand them to them?)

[chapeau-noir]

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@katzrul15 wrote:

@mrdutch1001  - thanks for your post!  I am just not keen on meeting with someone "live" to transfer the "wares" so the speak.  lol

DS, doesn't think twice about it.  They stand there, exchange cash/money or venmo or whatever and all is good.

More of a "stigma" thing, I guess and I really don't want people coming to our home to pickup aunt lucy's teapot set.  (btw - what do you put the items they bought in?  A bag, a box - just hand them to them?)

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I just hand the stuff to them and they hand me the money.  ?? Not sure what the problem would be.  I've done a lot of in-person transactions and sold stuff for pickup.  Nobody is out to cosh me on the head and run off with that coat or the sewing machine.  Aunt Lucy's teapot, though - that might bring out a rough crowd. 😁

ETA:  When does a thread topic qualify for a retread?  This one is real worn.

[mrdutch1001]

depends on the items...much of what DH & I sell locally are larger items..no packaging needed...the buyer wants to see the item before handing over the $, so unless there are multiple items of a size that benefit from boxing up at end of transaction, generally no packaging is expected nor needed....much like going to a garage sale/yard sale...boxes/bags only as necessary.

[popblox]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

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@katzrul15 wrote:

@mrdutch1001  - thanks for your post!  I am just not keen on meeting with someone "live" to transfer the "wares" so the speak.  lol

DS, doesn't think twice about it.  They stand there, exchange cash/money or venmo or whatever and all is good.

More of a "stigma" thing, I guess and I really don't want people coming to our home to pickup aunt lucy's teapot set.  (btw - what do you put the items they bought in?  A bag, a box - just hand them to them?)

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I just hand the stuff to them and they hand me the money.  ?? Not sure what the problem would be.  I've done a lot of in-person transactions and sold stuff for pickup.  Nobody is out to cosh me on the head and run off with that coat or the sewing machine. 

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My 71 year old mom did that selling her handmade quilts on FB Marketplace and made a killing. It's crazy because she never even thought twice about it - while I was all paranoid and worried, she'd meet them in a grocery parking lot, walk right up, snatch the money, hand them the quilt, and walk away. 

[chapeau-noir]

Sometimes I have coffee with my customer.  One insisted on paying me my listing fees, saying it was such a good deal and she so appreciated me meeting her to hand over the (large) object.