Murder - EBAY is DEAD!!!  |
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 In recent times there has been a lot of controversy surrounding Ebay and the way they do business. Personally, I stopped selling on Ebay over 12 months ago due to high fees and too much competition causing sellers to undercut one anothers prices to such a degree that I was barely able to make $5 per item profit after paying the fees. To me, it just isn't worth it unless you have a VERY specific niche.
Just before I quit with them they had changed the final value fee charged to ebay store owners. Rather than paying the maximum of 5.75% of final value it increased to 10% for store owners. The change didn't affect me since I am not a store owner but I did realise how greedy they were being and the did succeed in annoying a lot of store owners. Several of my friends actually closed their stores.
Late last year they 'generously' reduced their listing fees... but at the same time increased their final value fees. The overall effect being one of greater profit to them.
Then about six weeks ago they announced that no downloadable products were to be sold. If you sell a product it must be a physical product, thus ebooks, mp3 files, videos etc had to be posted out on CDs, Disks or DVDs. This means delays for buyers who purchase products while they wait for them to arrive through the mail rather than receiving a file via email or a direct download link through paypal.
Around the same time they announced changes to the feedback system so that sellers were unable to leave neutral or negative feedback to bad customers. The only thing they can do is withold giving feedback at all. Which won't warn other sellers that a particular buyer is a bad apple. http://pages.ebay.com/ser... it any wonder that people are leaving Ebay in droves? These changes do nothing to encourage me to return and without sellers there would be no ebay. Other online auction sites have benefitted greatly from these policy changes because people have gone to them instead.
So what do you think? Do you think Ebay is killing itself? What do you think they should do to renew buyers and sellers trust in them.
Personally, I believe these changes are a last ditch effort to save a giant that is being crushed by it's own weight.
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21.  missbdoll (1061) | 2 years ago |  Since changes in Ebay Australialoads of people here has moved from there to an Australian site called Oztion.And a lot of people out here are saying Ebay is killing its self.
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 jewelenterprises (565) | 2 years ago | Yes, that's the site that I moved to about 12 months ago. It's a lot slower on the sales than ebay is but at least there are no listing fees so I'm not throwing my money down the drain on listings that sell nothing.
The funny thing is that yesterday I received an email from ebay. They are running a competition. To win you have to list items.
It would appear they are feeling the bite of sellers dropping off and trying to get them back. | |
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| 22. joimarquez (1289) | 2 years ago |  i have tried to use ebay before...at first i was just curious and checked it out....then i started bidding on a cellphone...but people kept outbidding me till the phone got higher...i hate it...then finally i got one deal but then the seller returned the money to my account coz he got a much more higher bid...it was crazy...from then on i stop ebay...
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| jewelenterprises (565) | 2 years ago | That seller did the wrong thing. If you were the winning bidder at the end of the auction then legally the item had to go to you.. not some person who offered them more money for it.
If anything like that ever happens again on any site you need to report it. Had you reported it to ebay they would have penalised the seller... perhaps even closing their account. | |
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23.  robsbrooklyngirl (3079) | 2 years ago |  I agree with you. I also have stopped using Ebay for that reason. Their prices are just too high. And you have to pay them even if your items don't sell. So I decided to just open my own online store. Why pay someone else to do what I can do on my own? I think everyone should do this. I keep my Ebay account open. I encourage all my customers to look me up on Ebay so that they can read my feedback from there. This way they can know what kind of reputation I have a s a seller. I also keep my Ebay account open because I still buy things from there from time to time, but as a seller I decided to go my own way. Take a look at my online store. The link in on my profile, if you like what you see why not do the same thing. Open your own online store. It would give me a new place to shop other then Ebay as well as give me new customers LOL.
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| jewelenterprises (565) | 2 years ago | Well, that's always an option... but you need to drive traffic to a site like that and as anyone who has such a site knows, that is not an easy task.
One of the ways you can do something like that is a little tip I learned from a site that teaches you to sell on ebay... the tip was to change your ebay id to reflect the name of your website.
For example, my ebay username is tiarajaynestreasures. I could start a website called www.tiarajaynestreasures.com and change my ebay id to tiarajaynestreasures-com
People would see that and think, 'I wonder if that's an actual website and type it in with a .com instead of the -com. Hence making use of ebays fantastic traffic to get traffic to my own alternative site. It's a sneaky way to bypass ebays rule about not including links to sites that have products for sale. Same as you can get extra pictures in your listings without having to pay ebay picture fees simply by uploading the pics to a site like http://www.photobucket.com then using html to link to it directly in your description. I have used picture shows quite successfully that way.
I've noticed recently that even die hard ebayers like Mike Enos have begun to get a little negative about ebay... in particular with the change in rules about digital products. | |
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