Who's leaving?

[ea327_for_radios]

I know I'm not alone with the way I feel about ebay's new pay plan. Who's leaving and what other platform have you found for selling? 

[cbd-usa]

I'm seriously considering leaving. And many others already have. With PayPal I had my sold item money available in my bank account within minutes after the sale. This new "managed payment" system I have to wait 3-5 days (or longer) and the money "might" be available. Absolutely unacceptable. I hope eBay notices all the people leaving and allows sellers to use the payment system of their choice. We pay for this service and we should have a say. But, I think this goes deeper than forcing managed payments. I think eBay wants small time sellers gone. And this will sure do it. Good luck to all.

[forward-motion]

Not me, I've had the best quarter I have ever had in my ebay history. 

[forward-motion]

My thoughts exactly!!

[forward-motion]

I see several users with 0 sales 0 feedback on this board but they are informed of what is going on. My thinking is that they use another account to chat so that we don't see their real business. Staying anonymous.  

[policequilts]

Everyone is talking about the "managed payment" on other sites.

The thing with the other sites, they started with managed payments from the get-go and you have a choice whether to sign up to sell on those sites.

eBay started off as a selling platform to let people sell things - garage sale items, antiques, handmade to commercially made items. A variety of items that you could auction or buy out right. Sellers having no fear of "eBay" telling you what to do in all the stages of selling, shipping and getting your money.

eBay makes all these changes and they can't even clean up all the glitches. There are glitches from years ago. eBay is patching old code with more code. At least, eBid. net has done infrastructure updates, has eBay?

As far as Paypal fronting money into sellers account.  I don't know how true this is - maybe in the years prior to all the new updating data programming.  I use a payment processor called Stripe. When I get paid from a buyer, I can log into my account and actually see how the payment is process from accepting, verifying and finally completed payment received and this is less than 1/2 day (more like 2 hours).  I really can see why eBay's managed payment takes a week to get payment. Ayden received the money the same day it paid and eBay should get it within that day and then into your account.

If you don't mind working for yourself and building a business, ebid, webstore could be of value.

Do searches for other sites and then do some checking on reviews. Make sure to see reviews that are about using the site and not the buyers having a problem with a seller.
I will say that I have seen newbies complain and leave within 2 months because they don't want to work, they want a business given to them.

[buyselljack2016]

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@forward-motion wrote:

I see several users with 0 sales 0 feedback on this board but they are informed of what is going on. My thinking is that they use another account to chat so that we don't see their real business. Staying anonymous.  

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Well, sort of.

It is also self preservation. 

Posting here can be like walking on egg shells.  If someone does not like what is posted they can go off to the account, and get even.  Not an everyday occurrence, but it has happened.

I post with my buying account. I don't need anyone to go off to my selling account when I post to do a Scooby-Doo of all my listings, and running back here to tell me I spelled a word wrong, or that I have an item listing price too high.

[katzrul15]

I will say that I have seen newbies complain and leave within 2 months because they don't want to work, they want a business given to them.

There seem to be quite a few (based on posts and how "unfair" everything is) that think this is an easy way to make money - fast way to make money.  It might be.  (Or you might make it fast, but due to your errors, might not get to keep it for long)

Wasn't my experience starting out.  It took us a good year to really get a rhythm selling online, figuring out what would sell, "learning" that sales did not = profit and most of all, that this is a 7 day a week job.  That first year we could have made more money working a paper route.  🙂

We learned the hard way in 2011, when we decided just focusing on other sites and chasing that Dragon, that just because you have things "for sale' on here, did not mean they would sell.  In fact, as soon as we quit putting any *real* effort into e-bay, our items in our Store, pretty much just sat there.

Some days this job is harder than working a PT 2nd job.  But is it also more flexible than what that would be and so, for us, that makes it very attractive and viable.  

Over 80 posts.  Millions of Sellers on e-bay.  Most of the posts do not indicate leaving.  The affect of those stomping out will be like throwing a pebble in the ocean.  Maybe 2 pebbles if they stomp loud aloud before they go.  😎

[kensgiftshop]

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@femmefan1946 wrote:

It will be interesting to revisit this thread in May 2022.

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I like going through some of the older threads of one's saying they are leaving because of MP.

Look them up and they are still here months later, on MP.

[thexfactor42]

I'll be spending time with the Cartwrights (if you take my meaning) starting sometime in early June. Next Sunday I'm going to have a final listing sale (the usual seven days), and when they all end on May 23rd I'm taking down the "Good Til Cancelled" listings as well.

[thexfactor42]

I don't give a flying cluck what eBay's policies are at this point, and will be looking forward to a sales **BONANZA** when I migrate everything over to the new platform I'm using since my focus has always been to sell everything but the ordinary...

[thexfactor42]

That logic only makes sense if you sell every single type of item that one could possibly sell. Discogs took a massive hit earlier this year when they tried implementing shipping policies that had no basis in reality, and a lot of the smaller sellers who specialized in rare and unique items simply bailed. Among other obvious issues, that means they've lost a lot of the people who would always contribute to the site's database. I saw a lot of similar "Hey, less competition for me" comments in the forums over there, but those were from old time fat cat sellers who had a selection of titles that could barely compete with Walmart.

[veronicabooksandart]

Shopify/Google Merchant Center seems a cheap thrills avenue for a singular line of stuff.

For everything else, ... yes.
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Who cares how long it sits? Marketplaces are junk stores. Its only when they become farms there's a problem.

[katzrul15]

go sell on river where everybody uses same catalog and then some A-hole changes the catalog and what you have listed no longer matches.  fun times.  oh, yeah, much better some place else. 

Just one of the annoying parts of selling other places.  Just like other platforms have issues as well, things change.  

Someone said once on here that e-Bay Sellers like to "be in control" and when they are not, they are an unhappy lot.  

[m.us361]

I'm leaving for sure. It's been days, and I still can't get my money out. I hate this .

[chapeau-noir]

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@thexfactor42 wrote:

I'll be spending time with the Cartwrights (if you take my meaning) starting sometime in early June. Next Sunday I'm going to have a final listing sale (the usual seven days), and when they all end on May 23rd I'm taking down the "Good Til Cancelled" listings as well.

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Good luck on Bonanza - I was on there two different times for a couple of years and sold nothing - it was really frustrating.  They want you to buy turbo packs, etc., to make sales.  Having said that, the site is an easy setup, looks good, you an import your eBay feedback so you don't look like you've never sold a thing in your life, and some people MUST be doing well there.  It's actually fun to start out into new pastures, though.