The one change eBay could do is give their sellers a level selling field, period. In order to even HOPE my items are seen by buyers and might sell, I now am FORCED to offer free shipping, best offer, free returns, pay for promotions, list below wholesale practically and EAT every single bit of nonsense a buyer can come up with. Most of it doesn't even help anymore anyway. Just throwing away more money in a wishing well these days here. All because eBay is telling me I need to do these things to basically secure a spot somewhere on their search engine. Maybe, maybe not, cannot even tell anymore what works or what doesn't.
VERY FRUSTRATING eBay!! I work 10 times as hard to make 1/10th the money, if that now.
It didn't used to be this way, but now a buyer only has to say his big toe felt funny when he got the package and seller is out money. Not kidding, they can say anything and it's on us. In what World can a buyer return a brand new product because she didn't like the packaging box the bottle came in? Yep, I had to eat a return from a crazy person, not eBay, ME! A box she threw away. This kind of abuse is intolerable to me. If eBay wants to allow frivolous returns for any reason, like the sun wasn't out that day then eBay should return the buyers money as the seller did their job 100% correctly and without incident.
But no, eBay owns nothing we sell (that I know of), but they are happy to give my money back to crooks, losers, scammers, thieves, remorse sales, renters, people who cannot read, people who found it cheaper thanks to eBay sticking that cheaper item on my page!, teens with their parents credit cards, and ad nauseam.
eBay is probably the most corrupt platform now, no other site makes me nervous to list an item wondering if it will make it all the way through without some negative nonsense that will likely end in me losing money.
China and big box should NOT get any better deals than a USA (non China drop shipper) seller has, period. Level the playing field, force some of these Chinese sellers to bring THEIR prices up to a reasonable price. I know this is never happening as CEO announced eBay was going with Chinese Merchants and are giving them a better deal than their US sellers. UNFAIR ADVANTAGE. Period.
I would like eBay to BALANCE this mess out, sellers are getting scared to list bigger ticket items (like myself), everything I sell now I hold my breath on. I list way more on another site now, pretty sad to even admit that.
