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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 25409440, member: 101855"]I sold a few things on eBay when I was dealer 20 years ago. It was lot more work than selling something at a show. You had to take the pictures and post them to the item on the site. If you sold the item, you had to package it and take to the post office for shipping. I had one guy hang me up for a week or so because he couldn't decide if he wanted to return an item. EBay charged a lot less for their services back then. </p><p><br /></p><p>Today eBay is a lot more expensive. They take more for the listing and take more for the sale. </p><p><br /></p><p>They are more on the side of the seller. Dealers have told me horror stories of where customers returned a box a rocks instead of the items they claimed to be returning. </p><p><br /></p><p>As a bidder, I hate eBay. I hate the snipping, and for that reason I will not bid there ever. I don't care about any "bargains" I might miss because life is too short to get PO'd with a snipper who takes you out for a couple of cents.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 25409440, member: 101855"]I sold a few things on eBay when I was dealer 20 years ago. It was lot more work than selling something at a show. You had to take the pictures and post them to the item on the site. If you sold the item, you had to package it and take to the post office for shipping. I had one guy hang me up for a week or so because he couldn't decide if he wanted to return an item. EBay charged a lot less for their services back then. Today eBay is a lot more expensive. They take more for the listing and take more for the sale. They are more on the side of the seller. Dealers have told me horror stories of where customers returned a box a rocks instead of the items they claimed to be returning. As a bidder, I hate eBay. I hate the snipping, and for that reason I will not bid there ever. I don't care about any "bargains" I might miss because life is too short to get PO'd with a snipper who takes you out for a couple of cents.[/QUOTE]
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