Ebay working for you again!

[Alistair Hosie]

Listen I used to add ebay fees then ebay barred me for 2 months it is no joke you could disguise it what we need is an alternative to ebay that thinks more of its customers the seller rather than the buyers Alistair

[BadDog]

Listen I used to add ebay fees then ebay barred me for 2 months it is no joke you could disguise it what we need is an alternative to ebay that thinks more of its customers the seller rather than the buyers Alistair

Huh? I thought that's what we had now. At least that's my perspective as a buyer. Can't leave negative feedback without retaliation no matter how much the seller deserves it, and no recourse either. Just keeping buyer and seller total/categorized feedback listed/viewable separate would be an improvement, though there should be some way to eliminate the retaliation. Not to mention any number of other complaints that constantly surface such as lack of response to shill evidence, seller not following through or substituting, and so on; unless they become so painfully blatant and clumsy that they can’t be ignored (at least for big sellers, small timers get pinched much more quickly).

Guess they can't make everyone (anyone?) happy...

[halac]

http://www.homeworkshop.org.uk/

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Unfortunately for us Yanks, shipping is prohibitively high from the UK.

I bid on a robot toy that weighed about 1.5 lbs. and when I found out shipping was going to be over $35, I had to plead with the guy to let me off the hook. Amazingly he left me with a positive feedback. He was a real class act.

[wmgeorge]

Unfortunately for us Yanks, shipping is prohibitively high from the UK.

I bid on a robot toy that weighed about 1.5 lbs. and when I found out shipping was going to be over $35, I had to plead with the guy to let me off the hook. Amazingly he left me with a positive feedback. He was a real class act.

I recall reading somewhere, perhaps an email from UPS, but they are bumping shipping fees up, high enough that I really now will do about anything to avoid shipping by UPS. I find the USPS Priority Mail and the Flat Rate boxes a real bargain. I see lots of stuff on eBay UK but I don't purchase because of the shipping costs. What happed to "free" trade, the shipping company's took care of that!!

[Wayne02]

we make pricing changes to correct unhealthy dynamics in the eBay marketplace

"unhealthy dynamics in the marketplace"

Now that is rich!

I can just see myself explaining a price increase to my customers using a line like that... sheesh

[wirewrkr]

the head honcho ( in this case honchess ) from Fleabay was on the telly the other night, Some show all about EBAY . Might have been called EBAY nation?
Anyway, they were not "nice" to her, constantly bringing up negative comments from consumers and ebay users and sellers alike. She was put on the spot more than once, including subjects that we all write about here.
My general impression was that Ebay doesn't give a sh*t about our complaints. I beleive she alluded to the idea that they aren't worried. Because their profits are way up, they can't be doing any thing wrong!
It was really sad to watch the arrogance at work. But I did enjoy the interviewer needling her.
Robert

[YankeeMetallic]

Looks like eBay has gotten too big for their britches. ... Look for craigslist to horn in, I hope.
So where are we going to find good used machinery now?
-Mark

Sorry to break the bad news to ya Wire. E-Bay bought the controlling interest in Craigslist about 2 years ago. Hmmm I wonder why?
E-Bay raising listing prices is ridiculous. As if they aren't making a killing as it is. They probably need to fund the much overdue customer service by phone center.

[MadReferee]

Sorry to break the bad news to ya Wire. E-Bay bought the controlling interest in Craigslist about 2 years ago. Hmmm I wonder why?
E-Bay raising listing prices is ridiculous. As if they aren't making a killing as it is. They probably need to fund the much overdue customer service by phone center.

Not so fast. Ebay bought a 25% share of CraigsList from a former CL employee in 2004. Jim Buckmaster and Craig Newmark still control the remaining 75% and control what CL does. There have been plenty of press releases and statements from both Ebay and CraigsList regarding the relationship. Do a little net searching and you will find them. Don't look for CL to become another Ebay anytime soon.

[BillH]

So where are we going to find good used machinery now?

-Mark

If you live near CT, there is no better place than www.bargainnews.com

For instance, a simple lookup of south bend just now, yields these 2 deals!

LATHE,
South Bend 10''. (203) 284-5054. Wallingford, CT

SOUTH BEND LATHE,
9" 3 1/2 ft bed, catalog #615-Z, $250. (860) 283-9532. Thomaston, CT

And if you type in southbend, notice no space, a 13" gear head south bend comes up, Now I wont post on here EVERYTHing you see for Bridgeport, but I did see a nice J head with power feed for 1800....

[Locksmith]

Are you guys kidding me, or what?

Did even one of you notice that the Final Value fee percentage went DOWN?

It just kills me: Are you going to place a classified ad that 20 million people could possibly see? How much would that same ad cost, and yet it only reaches the people in your home town?
I have sold things all over the world that I never would have sold if not for ebay. I also got some of the greatest deals I've ever had, and on machine tool accessories at that, on ebay.
Has anybody who posted considered that you don't pay sales tax on items bought on ebay, except in your own state, unless a company has an office in your home state? Nobody ever thinks of the stuff that offsets the fees.

Honestly, do you guys go into a store and not realize that there are costs associated with that gallon of milk you're buying? It doesn't get on the shelf and sit there for free waiting for you to buy it, does it? So why is it so difficult to realize that ebay fees are a cost of doing business?

I'm sorry if I offend any body on this BB, but the level of ignorance about ebay and Paypal is ASTOUNDING ! Ask yourself the question: How does it exist if it's screwing everybody? Is it remotely possible that the people who feel like they've been screwed, might have gotten screwed, if they really did at all, because they don't know what they are doing, or they expected something to happen, that doesn't happen on ebay?

If you bid on something, and someone outbid you at the last minute, that's your problem, not ebays.
If you feel that you got something, that wasn't as depicted in the auction, Did you go back and read it again? If it's not right, did you try to communicate with the seller, or are you just pissing and moaning without ever asking for him to resolve it. and if he did resolve the problem, what are you complaining about?
Are you complaining about the ridiculus price someone wants for something? That's the seller, not ebay.