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<p>[QUOTE="Detecto92, post: 1555118, member: 75105"]There is a lot of pain to those who sell on eBay that I can feel, but eBay is PART of it too.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. It can only take 2-3 people to complain falsely, and you can have your selling privileges restricted, or your payments held for 21 days (you have to ship on your dime). To me this is not right.</p><p>2. People can leave negative feedback out of spite, and it ruins your reputation.</p><p>3. The "detailed seller ratings" is just another bar you have to slide under, your performance is judged by that. You can't see who left you low stars in order to block them.</p><p>4. eBay pushed free shipping down a lot of sellers throats, but free shipping doesn't work for everything. </p><p>5. eBay used to have live chat, and a call center in the USA, now they moved it over to the Philippines, and they still lie saying its in America.</p><p>6. The reps they do have are poorly educated, and 6 different people will tell you 6 different things (happened to me).</p><p>7. They stuck people with a 9% shipping charge. This made people raise their shipping cost 9%, how the heck do you charge a fee for something that isn't yours??</p><p>8. They give huge discounts and incentives to .com's like ToysRUs and Buy.com, this ruins things for the little guy, and those sites already have their own site.</p><p>9. They clean up feedback for them too, as we witnessed hundreds of negatives removed from ToysRUs.</p><p>10. Even if you put "no returns accepted ", buyers still can get their $ back.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Detecto92, post: 1555118, member: 75105"]There is a lot of pain to those who sell on eBay that I can feel, but eBay is PART of it too. 1. It can only take 2-3 people to complain falsely, and you can have your selling privileges restricted, or your payments held for 21 days (you have to ship on your dime). To me this is not right. 2. People can leave negative feedback out of spite, and it ruins your reputation. 3. The "detailed seller ratings" is just another bar you have to slide under, your performance is judged by that. You can't see who left you low stars in order to block them. 4. eBay pushed free shipping down a lot of sellers throats, but free shipping doesn't work for everything. 5. eBay used to have live chat, and a call center in the USA, now they moved it over to the Philippines, and they still lie saying its in America. 6. The reps they do have are poorly educated, and 6 different people will tell you 6 different things (happened to me). 7. They stuck people with a 9% shipping charge. This made people raise their shipping cost 9%, how the heck do you charge a fee for something that isn't yours?? 8. They give huge discounts and incentives to .com's like ToysRUs and Buy.com, this ruins things for the little guy, and those sites already have their own site. 9. They clean up feedback for them too, as we witnessed hundreds of negatives removed from ToysRUs. 10. Even if you put "no returns accepted ", buyers still can get their $ back.[/QUOTE]
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