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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2375328, member: 76863&quot;]March was a typo on my part.&nbsp; May 1st is when the change takes place according to the email I got today.&nbsp; From that point on sellers will have to offer a 30 day return window for the top rated plus discount.&nbsp; I expect to see a lot of middle to small size sellers close up and pursue other venues or just stop offering returns as it is no longer worth it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I complete agree and would even take it one step further.&nbsp; Offering a 30 day return window it is no longer an on approval service, you are now nothing more than a consignment service for other sellers and fronting their inventory cost.&nbsp; People can just order whatever they want and shop it around, play the cross over/reconsideration game and if they can&#039;t make money on it return it at the end of the month.&nbsp; It&#039;s not a trial subscription to a service, no item needs 30 days to decide whether or not you want it.&nbsp; If the standard is now 30 days I can only imagine how long their holiday return period will be when last year that was 90 days.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Judging from Ebays actions or lack their of they stopped caring long ago as long as the seller is making them money and a lot of it.&nbsp; They seem to be wanting to try and copy the Amazon model with only having massive sellers now and frankly they won&#039;t win a head to head competition with Amazon.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone always mentions how valuable their buyer pool is and at one time I would have agreed, but I wouldn&#039;t agree anymore.&nbsp; Run 99 cent auctions on everything and see just how strong that buyer pool really is.&nbsp; A lot of the buyers now are dealers looking for inventory they can make money off of or people looking for cherrypicks/deals that they can flip.&nbsp; There is nothing wrong with cherry picking or snagging under valued things or even dealers buying inventory, but when that constitutes a large percentage of the buying pool the value to the seller is minimal.&nbsp; Almost everything price wise there is in a race to the bottom unless the seller is shilling or its one of the dreck peddlers juicing photos.&nbsp; I strongly believe they chased off far to many buyers that dabbled in selling as it has changed so much in even the last 18 months to 2 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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