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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1336806, member: 31533&quot;]Used to be, selling on ebay (before they made it totally in favor of the buyer, honest one or not), the seller could say that tough luck if it was lost in the mail, and it was the buyer&#039;s responsibility to pay extra for insurance and tracking. Now, it&#039;s pretty much standard that the seller has to have tracking on everything otherwise an unscrupulous buyer can claim not to have gotten it, and ebay will favor that one, give back the money and the seller is out plain and simple. Used to be a buyer (and seller) could give much more honest feedback, but now sellers have to give positive feedback, and buyers are strongly discouraged (through the &quot;are you sure process&quot;, etc) to only give positive feedback or not give any at all. Yes, ebay has totally overreacted, but they can&#039;t exist if people don&#039;t buy. Ebay has plenty of people selling stuff, even when a large amount of sellers have left. And they have increased the fees from sellers, so that they are getting more, so if they lose some sellers over that, that&#039;s ok; Ebay then knows that seller has chosen to not have as &quot;good&quot; or &quot;wide&quot; an audience for their wares. If the seller can&#039;t find someway to exist and go by ebay&#039;s changes, then tough luck to that seller. Ebay doesn&#039;t care (Very similar to WalMart&#039;s policies over what it dictates to it&#039;s suppliers, so that Wal Mart is making the profit and the suppliers are making a pittance). Ebay has also &quot;limited&quot; the postage and handling costs on many items a seller has, even if it costs more for the seller to ship it, as well as taking a percentage of those costs in fees. And they are trying to make sellers as much as possible offer &quot;free shipping&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think that ebay has lost their opportunity to really make changes that are good and profitable for both buyers and sellers. Yes, there are some quality sellers, but they have never made their reputation as a first class place to shop. I, personally, if I can, go to Amazon and shop there for stuff. Unless ebay can offer a somewhat same experience on some items or for the truly unusual (that Amazon doesn&#039;t carry).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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