glassdragon

They wouldn't tell me, just that I am. You would think that as of now 50 Positives and 0 negatives would be within in the standards.

Edit, i guess you can check this in your dash, here's the email

Here is what mine looks like

Josh-da-man

sellers who fall below eBay's minimum performance standards = anyone who isn't a "Power Seller."

Living Deadpan

Re: Ebay alternatives, anyone tried Bonanza.com? They've been popping up in my Froogle searches more lately. I haven't looked into their selling details, but sometime last year I bought a Fangoria back issue from a seller there & it was a good transaction.

JCWBobC

I have around 140 items for sale on Bonanza (I have a few older Fangoria magazines up on there so maybe I sold you the magazine) and have sold a few items but it does not have the same traffic as Ebay. Yesterday I was updating some items for sale and it said their were less than 1 million members so they have a long way to go. It is a lot less stressful than Ebay plus you can import your Ebay items & Ebay feedback very easily.

William Fuld

glassdragon,

Have you spoken to someone on the phone about the issue? Something isn't right on eBay's end, obviously.

GreenMonkey

I gave up selling DVDs, movies and games on ebay long, long ago - maybe 2-2.5 years ago.

It turned into annoyance. Paypal chargebacks. One fee here, one fee there, one fee depending on the selling price. You never know what you are going to be charged ahead of time without busting out notepad, a few different ebay pages, and guessing what your item will end at.

At least with Amazon, the fees are upfront and straightforward. It's clear what their fee is based on your selling price, and what you get. There's much less hassle (items take less that a minute to post, instead of ebay's pictures, descriptions, 80 different selections, pick shipping type, etc, etc).

And I've had way less hassle from Amazon sellers. There is some worry - Amazon, for example, doesn't apparently take delivery confirmation as proof of shipment - but I just stopped doing delivery confirmation at all.
If it's a big item, I toss insurance and confirmation on it, for my own protection. Other than that, anything under $40 or so, it just goes out media mail, no insurance, no confirmation. If someone decides to screw me, I'll have to bite it.

According to my stats, I've sold 448 things on Amazon since early 2008 (I, and the wife especially, used to have a LOT of DVDs and videogames). I've got a rating of 99 positives, 2 negatives (Amazon feedback is a lot spottier).
I've only had to bite one or two items and they may have legitimately gone missing. The honesty seems to be better on Amazon.

Living Deadpan

Okay, I just searched my email archives, and it's actually Ecrater.com I bought my Fangoria from, haha. *Sigh* I must've actually visited Bonanza more, though, since Ecrater totally slipped my memory.

Well, any thoughts on Ecrater now that I've brought it up?

JCWBobC

Another good thing about Amazon is they handle the payments so they get their commission and that's it.

When I sell an item on Ebay they get their FVF on the sale price, their fee on the shipping cost (i've gone to free shipping to avoid that), and then Paypal takes a percentage.

Also if you buy your shipping label through Amazon you get a discount so i've been able to ship items Priority mail that would normally go Parcel Post, due to the shipping cost, if I took the package to the post office.

Jacoby Ellsbury

Ebay is no longer doing cash back until November. I checked a bunch of cashback sites and ebay is no longer listed. One said it stopped as of 6/16 another said it won't be back until November.

Tarantino

They are changing their policies again to include seller protection. Not that it matters, since most of us have ditched eBay.

FeeBayFleaBay33

I'm so FUCKING! sick of ebay I'm seriously gonna explode, I just wish I was actually insane enough(And had no regard for life, like Feebay does with fees lol) and walk in their headquarters with an AK-47 and go off. Taking a piece of MY shipping now are you? and a piece of MY handling fee? go FUCK YOURSELF!

I pay the gas, I package it, I list it, I pay for the bubble mailers, I answer the emails, the phone calls, I get up to go out and ship the fucking item, oh yea and I PAY FOR THE FUCKING SHIPPING ****s! now what in the holy cock sucking hell is it you chair riding fucks do?, charge me LMAO!

You know they're gonna start charging a $.50 fee for logging in right? lmao, a $.50 cent fee for a 100KB photo hmm really? way to sock it to the average masses that don't know about HTML or image hosting(The average casual ebay seller) A 10 cent fee for wanting to start my auction at a specified time?, hmm I bet that cost them a pretty penny to put the HUMONGOUS 500 Terabyte auction on hold in their system for a WHOLE FUCKING 24 hours, and don't get me started on the "Final FUCK Fees" and the monopoly they have with gaypal as they double dip on OUR money.

I sell PSA/BGS sports cards that are in thick hard plastics, I charge $2.00 for S/H up to 5 cards(VERY VERRRRY generous of "Me",and now they want some of my piddly fucking pennies for their billion dollar business, nickel and dime mother fucking scum bags. Fee here fee there fee where? I don't know but I'm sure they'll find a place for another **** fucking fee to dig in like a fucking wood tick in your urethra.

These yeast infected bastards could cut their fees ALL AROUND the board 50% and still make out like a 500 pounder at an all you can eat. Then people would actually love them instead of despise and want to literally murder these leaches.


I have one good thing to say about ebay, but it's not even ebay, it's me my doings for being a stellar seller, I have 1,000+ 100% positive feedback on ebay and 99.9 of it's from selling, when they changed their feedback policy I almost went APE SHIT thinking wow there goes my feedback now. It actually made no sense, protect the buyer with 10 feedback buying a green $2.00 cock ring and leave the 2,000+ positive feedback seller that made you MAJOR money hanging out to dry because the gimp buyer has no fear of a negative in return pffftt!. But I'm just that good at avoiding negatives, I guess it's a miracle, but I better not jinx myself just yet. You can take my Powerseller status and go POWER FUCK yourself.


Ok I ranted and raved, I feel better, yea a lot of cussing sorry( Psyche I could give a fuck lol) ..... Ohh yea fuck off ebay, your lucky your my only option for now because I'm established there, I'll cough you **** hairs out of my throat one day and be done with you for good.

TheBang

At least you found the correct thread?

Can't say I disagree with the general sentiment though.

ben12

I just wanted to point out that offering free shipping doesn't avoid getting charged a fee on shipping unless you actually don't have to pay any money to ship an item. Either you pay the fee as part of the item's price or as part of the actual specified shipping fee. It's not a different rate for the item's price or shipping as far as I know, so there's really no advantage (other than looking good compared to other auctions that charge shipping).

JCWBobC

The only advantage to offering free shipping, which I have stopped doing because it has no impact on my sales, is that you automatically get 5 stars on your DSR rating.

Living Deadpan

I'll just have to live with my 4.9 average.

al_bundy

^

kd5

I've only ever sold one item on Ebay (getting ready to try selling 4 more), but I've been watching from the sidelines what people were doing before Ebay started charging their fee to include shipping, and I gotta say: If the ignorant fucks selling on Ebay wouldn't have tried to beat the system by charging 99¢ for their item, but $20 to ship it, maybe Ebay wouldn't have changed the rules. Whoever actually did that has only themselves to blame for the way things are now. Everybody's always trying to beat the system, well, you fucked everyone else in the process. Thanks. -kd5-

DVD Polizei

Can't Google get on eBay's ass and compete? Been waiting for years. Instead, Google plays around with social networking crap.

RonG617

All Ebay had to do was the have a maximum amount you can charge for shipping like they do for books and other media. They still have the maximum charge amount of $4 shipping for a book, but I sent out a hardcover the other day that cost me $3.83 media mail, so after Ebay took the 38 cent cut from the shipping I lost money on shipping.

That'sAllFolks

That's the problem with the media fees. They shouldn't limit the postage amount and then turn around and want a piece of it (claiming they are trying to even the playing field --- another lie from eBay's propaganda machine). I changed the way I ship to media mail on all my items, regardless of how I will send it. I then change the "handling" fee to pay for ebay's new policies. I used to sell CDs on eBay and even had a store. But EVERY year they found some way to lower this fee and raise that one, so that overall they took more money. I still use their "50 free listings" every month, but would never commit to them for my whole inventory. Anyone who does will be trapped in an ever spiraling abyss of raised fees and a "screw-you" attitude from eBay. I wish there was a viable alternative other than Amazon, but for now there is not.

Al_Tahoe

You can buy a green cock ring for only $2.00 ?!?

JCWBobC

Something new that just started, that's probably going to piss people off, is after an auction or Buy it Now ends you can only see a thumbnail of the picture. You can't click on the picture to make it bigger like you can during the auction. So if the item arrives in bad condition it's going to be hard to go back & look at the picture to see if that's how it was or if the damage happened during shipping.

glassdragon

My paypal now says that they are going to start holding my paypal money that is paid to me for auctions until the person says the received it. I typically only sell on there when I need the money and do 1 day auctions for that reason. Guess I'm not selling on there anymore. 55+ with a 100% rating and 5 stars apparently means you are a scammer. fuck them.

Troy Stiffler

Here is a testament to how eBay works... I stopped selling on there around a year ago. Last week, I decided to "liquidate" a few tools, just to get rid of them. I listed two circular saws, which ended yesterday. Well, first thing I sell on eBay in a year, and one of the two buyers already backed out.

This is the guy's email...

"Hi, I'm sorry so much.I bought skil saw another. because I'm need it soon.I hope see you later.I'm sorry. Bye bye"

Why bid if you didn't want it? It was obvious that it was a 7 day auction.

I guess I had to be reminded how much eBay sucks.

Sonic

They got that dumb 21 day hold incase a buyer decides he wants a refund. But the hold is released much sooner if:

1) You provided tracking and it shows delivered
2) You get positive feedback

Ebay sucks and paypal sucks.