Why I Stopped Selling on Bay
Posted on: Sat, 04/18/2009 - 20:09
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Why I Stopped Selling on Bay
I had to stop selling on eBay because of the crazy change they made to their feedback system. Now, you can only leave positive or neutral feedback for a buyer. You can't leave negative feedback, but the customers can leave anything they choose for your profile.
The crazy new feedback system and increasing fees ran me away from eBay to Amazon to sell my items and my own online store. eBay is dropping and had better make some changes if they hope to stay in the game!
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I left eBay a long time ago when they first started ignoring the sellers. They force you to take payment types that you don't want to and they also do absolutely nothing about retaliatory feedback. What use is a feedback system when you are afraid to be honest because that person will start posting negatives about you that are not true?
eBay has really gone down since the days I tried to sell. I don't know if I could stomach the buyer friendly eBay of today. It was buyer friendly when I was trying to sell, but nowadays is ridiculous. I see the insertion and FVF's look the same or maybe even lower than a few years back. Sellers can't leave negative feedback .... hmmm, kinda one-sided. Heck, I'd be scared to sell and ship anything if I can't leave honest feedback about the buyer. Maybe they are going somewhere with this although I am having a hard time seeing it.
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I agree. I used to sell a lot on eBay, but since they've taken away the ability of the seller to leave negative feedback when needed, I don't sell anymore. I still buy occasionally, but I'm done with selling there. With the high cost of shipping nowadays, I do better at our local flea market and selling on Craigslist anyway.
Thanks everybody so much for your honest comments. I have actually been thinking of selling some school books on ebay, to recap some of the money I spent on them and to buy new curriculum. But, after reading your comments; I believe I will check into Amazon, as well. Are there other sites you would recommend in opposition to Ebay?
I have used Buy.com and Amazon.com to sell stuff before and I have NEVER had a failed chargeback with either company. They do their own payment processing and check out the buyers before even telling you the buyer purchased something from you. There are a lot of smaller auction sites starting to receive ex-eBay sellers. eBay is making greedy mistakes and will fold if they don't change their ways.
Oh, this is great information. I am so glad I found this thread. Although, I am sorry you guys have had trouble. I have been giving serious consideration to selling on Ebay and didn't even realize there were other options.
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