anitaw2863 wrote:I just downsized my store and will continue to keep it at that level, since eBay won't promote your items (unless you pay them more) and make them impossible to show up in searches in favor of China. So, I guess they bit themselves in thier own butts when they ticked me off. I had over 1100 items listed for mostly vintage glassware and pottery and one neg feedback from a woman that wanted a free product and suddenly I made $80 in a month (as opposed to $500) and paid eBay $220. So now I have downgrade my store and subscription so low that the can't screw me anymore. I have been selling tons more on different sites so I guess eBay has beat themselves in thier own game. I will have to re-photograph much of my stock because I sell different items on different sites, but its a small inconvenience compared to being raped monthly. Under 260 for sale now, I figure this month should cost about $25 this month. So, who won eBay you or me? Or neither? It took 6 months of this for me to figure out the new pattern for them, but I got it now!
Glad you're so thrilled with your other selling sites. Good luck to you on those other sites. Sorry you weren't getting the sales here, but I will say... if eBay was making more money than you were on your items, you definitely weren't dealing in very good merchandise for this site. I'd be done with it too if my stuff wasn't selling here, although I know that there are sometimes just certain areas of interest a person WANTS to deal in, and regardless that it isn't selling gangbusters anymore doesn't actually matter. Rather than shift into other inventory, some sellers still want to remain with what they have always dealt in and still love. I can understand that.
I doubt "eBay bit themselves in their own butts when they ticked you off" as you put it. 
With millions and millions and millions of items listed here every day from bazillions of sellers, my guess is your space was taken up with another seller within a second of you leaving! Most of us wish there were far fewer sellers here competing with us for the buyers.. falling back to the number of sellers the site USED to support, but more and more seem to sign up every day it seems. sigh...
Anyway, glad to hear you tell us "you have been selling tons more on different sites"... I expect you wish you'd have gone over way before this.
And as far as "who won, eBay, you or me?" goes.. I don't think eBay misses any of us who step back either for a minute or permanently. Like I said above, more just step up and fill the spot. Ebay doesn't miss a beat, the buyers still make their purchases... just not from the seller who dumped and left, but another seller likely has the same item and gets the sale, so eBay still gets their fees. So they don't care. Ebay is fine. It's the individual sellers who have to assess how they want to direct their businesses so that they can thrive too. Good luck to you.
