Latest Ebay madness

Well in my opinion

Just noted this on the UK site anyway


Sellers can no longer leave negative or neutral Feedback for buyers.

• Buyers should leave honest Feedback without the fear of receiving negative or neutral ratings. Read more

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/services/forum/new.html

Will open it up to even more abuse from non paying buyers

:shrug:

 

I have already had a few non-paying bidders since this was introduced, but thats not the worst of it, people are now being held to ransom over feedback, as in someone buys a item, then turns round and threatens to leave neg unless a discount or refund is offered, had this happen to me twice so far, and i know of many other similar cases

Ebay really is going to the dogs. lets hope the rumours of google introducing their own auction site are true


The worst one i have found out about is that paypal have the right to hold funds for a item for up to 21 days AFTER you have posted it and feedback has been left for you

 

When did this rumour start it would be a really good idea me thinks

 

i m curious to scam someone just for kicks

 

Ebay is turning into a peice of s**t and i for one will not be selling there once my current items are sold or the auctions end and will find alternative means to sell my stuff..

When it was a case of possitive, neutral or negative feedback with a small comment added it was fine and didn't need changing and they should have left it like that. I hope google does create and auction site and that its better than eaby.

 

Eh, guys...the good old days are over!

 

Sadly there are not many alternatives to ebay, yeah there are other auction sites (although QXL has now closed down) but none of the other have anywhere near the visibility and online presence as ebay does

Bot of a double edged sword really, list on ebay and get a reasonable price for a auction, yet get shafted by fees and such, or list on a lesser known site and watch things sell for penny's, which yes, is great if you are a buyer, but with someone like me who depends on a second income from ebay it is not a viable alternative

Unfortunately we can grumble and moan as much as the next guy, but for the time being people like myself are stuck with them until something better comes along

Another ebay rumour circulating at the moment is the abolishment of listing fees, but then with yet more in final value fees (remember the last time the reduced the listing fees and double the final value fees, not exactly a fair tradeoff!)

And now with the new policy that you HAVE to offer paypal as a payment option (and pretty much stopping all other payment methods) we are getting stung more in fees!

 

eBay should at least have it where sellers can block bidders with a feedback score of 0 or less, not -1.

 

I belive that you can do that...I'm pretty sure that you can at least.

 

I've seen some sellers post that they won't accept zero feedback but the only times I've seen ebay officially do it is with really high priced items.

 

Well, spanish eBay sellers are on strike for all this shit, and the items for sale have gone from perhaps more than 500.000 to 300.000, and it gets lower day by day...

 

I have pretty much stopped selling on ebay now because of the fees, the feedback thing was the icing on the cake!

 

ebay is dead

long live assemblergames auction
good idea ?

 

Well, after reading some threads in the seller's eBay Spain BBS I understood more or less how the situation is. Imagine this hipothetical case:

I have a store where I do sell vintage videogames. I have more than 500 items listed, and then when I'm going to list something else, I got a message saying that I'm forced to using PayPal. Then, I'd call the assistance service phone and they'd tell me that I had to use PayPal because I'm a fraudulent seller, why? Because once some 0 vote user bid on one of my items and voted negative saying "lol ur a fuker and im not paying". So, after 2700 positive transactions, I'm a bad seller.

Then, they tell me that I have 400 auctions where I say that the item can be payed by bank transfer, so they make me change that before next day. Of course, that is impossible, and then, I get suspended of eBay, with thousands of dollars worth of retro games stocked.

Sellers are just going mad.

 

I hardly ever use EBay. Their fees are a joke plus the amount of arse holes on there really make me nervous about selling on Ebay. Yahoo auctions are pretty much 100% safe for selling and buying apart from the odd racist arse hole that pops up every now and then.

Yakumo

 

- This is madness!
- This. Is. eBayyyyyyyyyyah!!111

 

:lol:

 

It will have little to no impact. That stuff doesn't go overseas (and money won't change hands) automatically. It costs someone (the buyer that Ebay has tried to hard to protect up until now) a lot.

 

I'll buy from you