Let me preface this by saying after 11 Years I will be severely limiting my Ebay sales starting today - I will be using Ebay to advertise and drive buyers to alternatives for purchasing my goods.
I realize complaints about Ebay have been rampant on here, but there are some pretty specific changes that are coming that are driving me away. It's a shame Google cant get their auction stuff going because Ebay would get hurt pretty quickly to a competitor, even if that competitor just copied Ebay from 10 years ago and RE-Implemented it.
Here in no particular order are the reasons why I am abandoning Ebay:
- No ability to give negative feedback to abusive buyers. I realize retaliatory feedback was a problem, but I think I should be able to warn sellers when some tool buys an item off of me, leaves me a neg and opens a claim without even emailing me once to resolve the issue.
- New complaint system allows buyers to report you as "not responding" to complaints, without ANY verification as to the truth of their claims.
- New complaint system is used against you as a powerseller. If someone opens a complaint, WHETHER VALID OR NOT, you are dinged.
- New powersellers program treats people who sell 1000 $1 items better than sellers who sell 10 $1000 items, even though the latter pays a significantly larger amount in fees. (Powersellers based mostly on # of items, not net sales)
- Fees average 10%-30% now on items under $100 (including listing fees).
- Ebay buyers have gone from well-informed smart shoppers looking for a bargain, to uninformed complainers who don't read auctions then file claims for getting EXACTLY what was advertised and they agreed to buy.
So all of my lower ticket items will ONLY be offered for sale here on KLOV (and possibly a new Yahoo Shopping site).
- Feedback system here allows me to research a buyer before I agree to sell to them. It also allows ACCURATE information, just not positives.
- People here are generally well informed and know when something says "untested" or "parts only" that means it MAY NOT WORK!
- "AS-IS" and "NO REFUNDS" actually means something here. KLOV'rs that pay $2 for a Pacman board that is AS-IS and it doesn't work, dont go complaining and requesting a refund.
- No Fees other than Paypal if I use it.
So there's my $.02 on why KLOV is far superior for selling my surplus arcade items than Ebay. Look for another one of my sales posts later this week to get rid of all the stuff I had for sale on Ebay that I took down. No fees and better buyers means lower prices from me.
Rick
I realize complaints about Ebay have been rampant on here, but there are some pretty specific changes that are coming that are driving me away. It's a shame Google cant get their auction stuff going because Ebay would get hurt pretty quickly to a competitor, even if that competitor just copied Ebay from 10 years ago and RE-Implemented it.
Here in no particular order are the reasons why I am abandoning Ebay:
- No ability to give negative feedback to abusive buyers. I realize retaliatory feedback was a problem, but I think I should be able to warn sellers when some tool buys an item off of me, leaves me a neg and opens a claim without even emailing me once to resolve the issue.
- New complaint system allows buyers to report you as "not responding" to complaints, without ANY verification as to the truth of their claims.
- New complaint system is used against you as a powerseller. If someone opens a complaint, WHETHER VALID OR NOT, you are dinged.
- New powersellers program treats people who sell 1000 $1 items better than sellers who sell 10 $1000 items, even though the latter pays a significantly larger amount in fees. (Powersellers based mostly on # of items, not net sales)
- Fees average 10%-30% now on items under $100 (including listing fees).
- Ebay buyers have gone from well-informed smart shoppers looking for a bargain, to uninformed complainers who don't read auctions then file claims for getting EXACTLY what was advertised and they agreed to buy.
So all of my lower ticket items will ONLY be offered for sale here on KLOV (and possibly a new Yahoo Shopping site).
- Feedback system here allows me to research a buyer before I agree to sell to them. It also allows ACCURATE information, just not positives.
- People here are generally well informed and know when something says "untested" or "parts only" that means it MAY NOT WORK!
- "AS-IS" and "NO REFUNDS" actually means something here. KLOV'rs that pay $2 for a Pacman board that is AS-IS and it doesn't work, dont go complaining and requesting a refund.
- No Fees other than Paypal if I use it.
So there's my $.02 on why KLOV is far superior for selling my surplus arcade items than Ebay. Look for another one of my sales posts later this week to get rid of all the stuff I had for sale on Ebay that I took down. No fees and better buyers means lower prices from me.
Rick
