Is anyone else DONE with E-bay!!!

[texasroni75]

I gave up on Ebay in 2009 when I had a run-in with too many bad apples. DH worked for a high-end designer company (the actual company - NOT an outlet and not a re-seller), and he got me quite a few handbags and other items using his employee discount. When I quit my job to be a SAHM, I decided to sell the ones I had never used to have a little nest-egg. The items still had the original price tags and original boxes. Several of the items that I listed, the buyers tried to tell me my items were fakes. Several non-paying bidders, and one who claimed they never got their package (delivery confirmation tracking proved otherwise). Paypal put holds on my money for weeks while they resolved the complaints. I know many people who have better luck than me, I guess I just attracted the jerks. It really soured me on the whole thing.

 

[talulabelle]

yep! SO done with them. Huge waste of time. their feedback structure basically allows buyers to do what ever they want and you can't give bad feedback. It's nuts. Plus they take a ridiculous cut of any sale and also gouge you again when Paypal is used. Shipping costs are so outrageous, I rarely made a profit.I now drop off old clothes (no matter how nice) at goodwill and feel like I make out better. My time is money and ebay sucked way too much time. I also get to be blessed by helping others and I feel like I am way better off with more time and more blessing than dealing with the headache that ebay has become.

 

[MinnieLovesMickey12]

I occasionally sell on Ebay and in the past 2 years have not had one single bad experience. But 2 years ago I had a big bad one.

I had homeschooled my children for a few years and had an expensive set of Calvert homeschool curriculum to sell with ALL NEW WORKBOOKS that had never been written in.

A buyer emailed me and asked me if I would just sell him the workbooks and not the text books and I said no. It was a set. A few days went by and that same buyer finally just bought the whole set from me.

After I had shipped it about a week later the buyer emails me and says the box arrived and had obviously come untaped during shipping and that a lot of the books were missing. I know this is a crock and I see where it is going.

They filed an Ebay dispute because I would not refund them any money. And of course Ebay sided with them. Told them to ship the books back to me at their own expense and when they got the notice that the books had made it back to me they would refund them 100%.

About a week later I got the box of books back from the con man buyer and guess what all books were missing from the box? YEP. All the new unused workbooks that he tried to buy from me to begin with. He blatantly stole from me and cost me money and had the NERVE to leave me bad feedback. But unfortunately Ebay no longer allows sellers to leave negative feedback for buyers. Which is also a crock of you know what.

But as of now I have 100% positive feedback. I ship Priority mail so they get their items within 3 days. I don't work outside the home so I can stay right on top of that.

Also for the PP who stated she didn't want to go to the post office every day. You don't have to. If you ship priority mail you can have the post man pick the item up right off your front porch for you the next day.

 

[MinnieLovesMickey12]

Ebay is the worst when it comes to fees and such. I've had some problems in the past with deadbeat buyers, and Ebay has always seemed to sort it out. The problem I have with them though, is their ridiculous fee system.

I used to sell close to $300.00 a month, but once pay pal and Ebay got their fees I walked away with only $160ish a month. It's hilarious to think that Pay Pal and Ebay (which are owned by the same company) takes almost half of what I sold, even though, they only host my product. There is no excuse to take that much money from a customer.

Ebay takes 10% and Paypal takes 3.5%. If you were losing half your money something wasn't right because they don't charge 50% fees.

 

[JB2K]

Been selling on eBay for 12 years (and I often sell consumer electronics) -- all of my customers have been great...

Over that time, I've had a couple of non-payers, but that's going to happen (fortunately, I wasn't out any money).

As for the fees -- eBay is certainly not Craigslist (nor would I want it to be) -- I enjoy doing business with folks who aren't constantly trying to scam me...