Ebay is now getting on my last nerve!!!

[mariner_gamers]

Re: Ebay is now getting on my last nerve!!!

Ebay is actively trying to get away from auctions and do strictly buy it now. From articles I have read and the general hassles they are now giving sellers I am guessing they are trying to discourage small time folks as well. This was their bread and butter 10 years ago but they seem to be focusing all of their eggs on giant drop shippers that list thousands of the same items over and over. I can only speculate but if you were listing 10,000 items a week, all buy it now you would not be receiving any sort of reprimand.

Ebay is trying to model itself after Amazon and in my opinion they are in way over their heads. I am only speculating here that they are trying to muscle Craigslist into becoming their outlet for small time sellers who were their prime customers 10 years ago. There are several battles going on publicly and I assume privately between Craigslist and one of their largest stakeholders eBay. My guess is behind the scenes eBay is pushing for some sort of fee structure for Craigslist listings and Craigslist is trying to fight them off. Again this only my opinion based on articles I have read and the changes eBay has made in the past year.

[KrAzY3]

Re: Ebay is now getting on my last nerve!!!

As a Buyer, I have to say that I'm very good about leaving feedback in a timely manner, but I also have to admit to being pretty lazy when it comes to entering the "star" data. I will usually only bother when some aspect of the deal, like shipping, has been extraordinarily bad or good. If I leave no "star" feedback, what happens? Does it just register as nothing - neither good nor bad? If that's the case, I should definitely start taking the time to leave a lot of stars for Sellers who do a good job - I guess I just never considered it to be of any importance.

It doesn't register if you don't leave it. Personally, I'm fine with people not leaving star rating. It is a nice reward to leave all 5 stars with someone you were really happy with, but it's kind of punishments to leave anything below that. I have yet to leave anything lower than a 4 in any category.

What this means is that any seventeen year-old kid can buy a five dollar item from you and proceed to wreck your selling privileges, especially if you don't sell things very often and don't have loads of feedback from other transactions.

Bingo. Worst thing they have done is make old feedback/stars not count. This way, a bad seller gets his previous dealings erased, a sub par seller that does a lot can absorb the stray bad feedback, yet a occasional seller with a great track record perpetually starts over.

The entire system they have set up now really does put the long-time occasional seller at the highest risk. That's messed up because I'd think that kind of reliable "customer" would be quite valuable in the long run.

[jobathenut]

Re: Ebay is now getting on my last nerve!!!

suave-I have said it more than once on here,and i'll say it again,EBAY IS A JOKE.I used to love being on there,as it was alot of fun,but all the changes for the so-called better have gotton me to not even go on there anymore.I wish they would've gone with the saying,"if it ain't broke,don't fix it".Because none of thier changes were needed.Like the one that got me to stop selling on there,the paypal only,and no money orders.I just find it funny,like with this response that you got that ebay does'nt want to get involved and that in thier words-it's member to member.But not when it comes to paying,then they do get involved and you have to now pay the way they want you to,and surprise it's a company they own,still would like to know how that isn't a monoploy.Anyway,thats my 2 cents on this.Sorry to hear this happen to you.And i agree,that stars thing is funny.I feel your pain my friend

I EMAILED EBAY ABOUT THIS - THIS WAS THERE RESPONSE!!


Dear Jason,

Thank you for writing eBay in regard to your feedback concerns.

We can remove Feedback if it's abusive or meets any of our other
conditions for removal. Unfortunately, this one doesn't.

The eBay Feedback Forum is a member-to-member tool that gives people a
place to speak freely without worrying about being censored.

Members are solely responsible for the comments they post, and we can
remove a member's comments only under certain conditions.

Even if a member leaves Feedback that is unfair, untruthful, or harmful
to a member's reputation, we can't remove it without a court order
describing the comments as libelous, defamatory, or illegal.




I find it funny how ebay themselves says that even if a comment is blaintly wrong that they need to be told by the courts to remove it.
You got to love it!!