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<p>[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 2082326, member: 31533"]Yeah. Love/Hate for sure. And I can see their point. If people don't get on to buy on the bay, who cares how many sellers there are. And if buyers get on and get messed over by sellers (which has happened to me), and eBay is not there to 'protect', then a lot of the actual good buyers will be off or unwilling to really spend. </p><p><br /></p><p>And there are lots of sellers who seem to have found a really good niche for themselves and do well with eBay, even going so far as to have loss leaders (really cheap things they sell for a cent) just to keep up their scores. So they continue to get discounts from ebay on selling. And I am back on and loving having some free listings, because I can possibly sell with no downside other than the time I've put into it. I am finding I would rather, as a seller, have free listings (basic) in one category and just pay the sell fees to ebay on both the product and the s/h costs than to be paying upfront for the listing. </p><p><br /></p><p>And if this 'saves' me enough to be starting back then I guess that's good.</p><p><br /></p><p>Right now I have lots of things up, but few coin related stuff. </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess there might be some formula that says more unhappy sellers are better than more unhappy buyers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 2082326, member: 31533"]Yeah. Love/Hate for sure. And I can see their point. If people don't get on to buy on the bay, who cares how many sellers there are. And if buyers get on and get messed over by sellers (which has happened to me), and eBay is not there to 'protect', then a lot of the actual good buyers will be off or unwilling to really spend. And there are lots of sellers who seem to have found a really good niche for themselves and do well with eBay, even going so far as to have loss leaders (really cheap things they sell for a cent) just to keep up their scores. So they continue to get discounts from ebay on selling. And I am back on and loving having some free listings, because I can possibly sell with no downside other than the time I've put into it. I am finding I would rather, as a seller, have free listings (basic) in one category and just pay the sell fees to ebay on both the product and the s/h costs than to be paying upfront for the listing. And if this 'saves' me enough to be starting back then I guess that's good. Right now I have lots of things up, but few coin related stuff. I guess there might be some formula that says more unhappy sellers are better than more unhappy buyers.[/QUOTE]
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