New Ebay changes rolling out

[Zemo]

Wow a lot to swallow. Sellers will only be able accept electronic payments and much more.

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200808....08-08-20070116

[Mikey]

Beginning on October 1, 2008 and running through the end of the year, all sellers will receive the option to use subtitle for free, worth $.50 per listing, when free shipping is offered. .

Great idea, if shipping costed 50 cents

I hate their guts

[EMCE Hammer]

That may put the nail in me as an Ebay seller.

[toys2cool]

piece of crap

[thunderbolt]

so they are forcing all ebay users to Paypal?

[toys2cool]

so they are forcing all ebay users to Paypal?

yeah i'm pretty sure they are

My brother opened an account the other day and they would'nt let him sell anything unless he had Paypal

[palitoy]

Blerg!

That entire statement reads like the Orwellian double speak of 1984.

[lepage]

which is only helping them as they now own paypal so more money for them. Ebay IMO is supposed to be a platform for someone to hold an oline auction. The auction at the end of the day is the sellers auction not Ebays. With the exception of some reasonable rules, they should stay out of our business!

It should be up to me what payment method I accept.

[garagesale]

You will soon find me shopping increasingly on Craigslist (see the recent postings about that), Google shopping, alternative auction sites, and MEGO MUSEUM MARKETPLACE!

Ebay is just like so many of those big corporations...Blockbuster, for example... once they get to be too big, they start putting their profits first and foremost without caring about the customers who put them on top. They change their policies to intentionally try to confuse, confound, and confine clients' and customers' activity in order to get more $$$ while giving less service/product.

Even though I'm not really an ebay seller, I am really miffed at how they're messin' over those of you who are just tryin' to make a buck or two.

Fight the power!

JamesD

[Adam West]

Well, I guess you could just roll your shipping costs into your opening price and offer free shipping but then Ebay takes a cut of your final value which then include the shipping...blah.

The star rating requirement also looks lame. So if you are a new seller and someone wants to kick you in the gonads just give them low stars and they won't be able to sell again for 30 days?

I have some seasonal stuff to sell at Christmas and then I'm done selling on Ebay. It is no longer fun to be a seller especially when Ebay puts their hands in your left, right, and back pockets leaving you with nothing when it's all said and done.

This is really going to put the pain on items with razor thin profits as it is. I always enjoyed being able to go on Ebay and buy a McFarlane Redskin Figure for example and didn't mind paying a few bucks above what it would have cost me to buy it locally but I couldn't find it locally because all the Redskin fans in this part of the country would buy them up but I could easily find a Dallas Cowboy figure that maybe someone in Texas wanted. Now there is very little incentive to do this.

Ebay's end is inevitable. I think we will start to see more people selling their wares on site specific sites like the museum here and bypassing Ebay altogether. There are a couple of other items I collect and they all have buying and trading forums so they are creeping up all over the place.

[Adam West]

Looks like garagesale and I were typing at exactly the same time to share sentiments.

[starsky]

blah blah blah, i'm so sick and tired of ebay's new policies that they can kiss my ***** what's next?

[mitchedwards]

Eventually E-bay will be relegated to the dustbins of the internet.

[Bill]

Warning... Conspiracy theorist.

It's a lot easier for eBay to turn over your activity to the IRS when they remove checks and money orders as payment options. Their cut on Paypal is good, but not that damn good to exclude checks and money orders and run sellers off.

Putting a set limit on shipping charges on some items is bs too. I do hate padded shipping and handling charges, but I don't need eBay telling me or other sellers what my expenses are. I'm guessing it has something to do with those .99 BINs with $75 shipping fees, but bounce those people, those auctions aren't hard to weed out.

On the bright side; at least they're making it easy for us to leave and never look back.

[Bill]

Maximum shipping cost for an antique/collectible book is $4.

Maximum shipping cost for 12" vinyl is $4.