Comments on: Fine, eBay. Here’s your $2. I hope you choke on it.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:45:34 +0000

I just hate how the system is set up for Best Match which puts anyone with enough low detaied ratings, right to the back of the listings, effectively putting you out of business. when, like me you get 3 low dsrs in one month you’re left waiting a year to wipe them off, even if, like me you’ve performed excellently on average, for the whole rest of the year. You can’t even argue that buyer feedback is unfair, you just get told its their opinion. When at times you give evidence that proves you’re right, and the buyers obviously in a bad mood, and decides to slate you on all criteria, but they get away with it anyway.

By: john

john — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:55:20 +0000

Ebay and Paypal are con-artist from the beginning.All they think about is money,money,and more money.I hope and pray that someone out their will hear the voices from all the poor ebay sellers that have lost it all.I pray everyday that ebay and paypal gets what is coming to them,that day i will celebrate !

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:46:01 +0000

And yet bizarrely I had absolutely no problems selling my iPhone 4 on eBay, and I’ve also never encountered this problem with all the other electronics stuff that I’ve sold over the years. Don’t let one bad experience put you off.

By: Noatao

Noatao — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:07:48 +0000

Paypal and ebay alike. I only recently got my account limited for absolutely NOTHING. Then I tried with the customer support and again with the appeal resolution center. Just nothing. Worthless company.

By: Maia

Maia — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 14:47:58 +0000

If instead of asking in Google how long will it take to the eBay support to answer the phone call – you had called it, you would find that they answer in a few minutes. I already called them several times in the last months and they always answered in less than 5 minutes time. Strange attitude…

By: ali

ali — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:44:27 +0000

This whole post is down to poor seller education. There are ways when listing on ebay to disallow bids from buyers with certain attributes I.e. DSR and feedback scores, etc.
I am an ebay seller and protect myself in this way and have no problems. There are hundreds of thousands of ppl selling on ebay every day, and many who have
Successful ebay businesses. Seriously, if you are going to do something take the time to do your homework and learn how its done properly before doing it. If you don’t educate yourself and you screw up coz of this and then kick up a stink about it, you just land up looking like an ever bigger ahole then you are in the first place.

By: ornob

ornob — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:20:21 +0000

i agree with this – checking prices between amazon and ebay shows ebay is also expensive – the auction paradigm seems broken to me.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:44:20 +0000

eBay doesn’t refund listing fees, which for auctions are 99cents each. These listing fees are like what you used to pay for a newspaper classified ad, except of course much, much lower. Like with a classified ad, you are paying for the exposure, not for the actual sale.

You spent all sorts of time figuring out the perfect auction ending time etc to ensure you got the ideal price. What you should’ve done is figure out what the phone was likely worth (current average selling price), how much shipping would be, and exactly how much you wanted for your specific phone. Set it as a fixed price item with immediate payment required and all the problems you described would not have happened.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:41:25 +0000

Next time try Swappa: http://swappa.com

No listing or seller fees. It’s mostly for Android devices, but iPhones are allowed too. And Swappa has great customer service.

By: Andrew R.

Andrew R. — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:29:08 +0000

You guys should check out http://www.flipso.com as an eBay alternative.