Who Has Left Ebay?

[Piratedogcardshows]

I only use eBay when my cards don't sell on the BST.90% of the time I lose money.And USPS just raised they rates yesterday so that's more cost to ship now on top of eBays high fees.

[3-2-count]

I use it solely as a venue to buy anymore. To many other good resources to choose from when one wants to sell. My hat's off to anyone who still does! I can only imagine the frustration.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

I shop there pretty regularly but usually find better stuff in the BST. Plus I would rather deal with fellow collectors.

[kcohen]

You can say THAT again!

[ullmandds]

I use it less and less for selling...it is still the place to go to sell my odds and ends(non vintage baseball card stuff) and pottery.

I still buy on ebay periodically.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

I use it less and less for selling...it is still the place to go to sell my odds and ends(non vintage baseball card stuff) and pottery.

I still buy on ebay periodically.

What type of pottery do you collect?

[g_vezina_c55]

I am member on ebay since 1999

I don t sell on ebay 10% in fee + paypal fee + a lot of idiot buyer on it.
I check everyday as a buyer . Rarely find good deal.
Ebay is now a BIG WALMART with a lot of overpriced buy it now item.
The buy it now/best offer selling option destructed ebay long time ago ...

I remember the good old day when the only option of ebay was .99 cent auction... and reserve price.

I use the BST section for find goudey for my set and now i also look at auction house. I rarely find corect priced card on ebay

[slidekellyslide]

I still use it to sell 100's of items per week...the fees do suck, but there is no comparable place to sell the variety of items I sell so I'm stuck with it.

They are much more seller friendly than they were just a year ago...I got two negatives removed from my account with a 5 minute phone call. One was a lady in Texas who did not receive a postcard, tracking showed they tried to deliver, she contacted me and I told her they tried to deliver it so she should contact her post office...she emailed me back to say that her mailman knows nothing about it and she demanded a refund. I told her to open a case through ebay and that they would refund her through the protection plan...this was not good enough for her as she wasn't going to open a case for 7 measly dollars, so she left me a negative. I called ebay and they got rid of it. I still called her local post office to try and track down her postcard...they found it, I emailed her to let her know...she told me it wasn't worth sending her 80 year old husband to the post office to pick it up.

The other negative was from a guy in Wisconsin who returned a cast iron bank to me and claimed it wasn't cast iron...My shop is closed on Monday and that's apparently when they tried to return it to me, they left no note in my mailbox so I had no idea...the guy just left a negative and I couldn't get him to give me a tracking number for his return shipment...finally got the info out of him and got the post office to deliver the package, refunded him and asked him to remove the negative..he refused, but ebay still removed it for me when they saw the trail of emails with this guy.

edited to add: I did use our BST last week to get rid of a few items and they sold immediately and for what I think was a better price than I would have gotten from ebay...If I sold only cards I think our forum would be my first outlet for them.

[rjackson44]

It's fee bay net 54 rocks never had one issue here selling or buying

[glchen]

Last week when I was on vacation, I saw that there was a chargeback to my paypal account for a card that I sold on ebay for $300+. The tracking said that the card was delivered to my office, but since I was on vacation, I couldn't confirm it. I got back yesterday, confirmed that the card was returned safe and sound, and then logged into paypal to resolve the case. However, I saw that the Paypal case had been closed that morning, and Paypal would no longer allow me to refund the buyer. I called Paypal, and they said that they had already refunded the credit card company for the chargeback, and that I could keep the proceeds, and resell the card on ebay again!

[Tim Fritz]

I've been on ebay since 1997 and haven't sold anything in the past 3 years. I used to sell only a few items each month, but the fees and rules (negatives) starting outweighing the positives. I now sell straight to other collectors or to a few dealers that I've gotten to know over the years.

I'm still a frequent shopper on ebay as my financial overlord (wife ) can attest to.

[MyGuyTy]

Originally Posted by g_vezina_c55

I remember the good old day when the only option of ebay was .99 cent auction... and reserve price.

Oh those were the days.......I started "Ebaying" in 1997/1998 and almost every damn card imaginable was available at auction (majority of them raw). Many did have reserves, but a lot of them didn't. Prices were a dream come true compared to today's overinflated market.

Tons of rare cards to be had on the cheap. I remember picking up a damn near mint E92 Crofts Cocoa Cobb for just around $900. Five years later it was an $8,000 card (like a dummy, I ended up relisting it for a $500 profit shortly after I bought it). I also remember a very nice raw E90 Joe Jackson (would later grade a 4), that sold for $3,000, again a few years later it was almost $30,000. That's when Ebay was really the only outfit on the net for vintage collectors to come together to buy and sell.......Wish I could go back in time, lol.

[Runscott]

My stuff sells much better on ebay, even to Net54 members who could be saving ebay fees by purchasing through my web-store. So I really can't leave ebay ... yet. The situation I just described indicates that some people feel more comfortable buying through ebay. My fees are covered by the higher prices, and the ebay store costs less than my website, so I have no problem with it, except out of principle.

David, I will follow your lead as soon as it makes financial sense.

[insidethewrapper]

I usually only list when the initial listing fees are free. EBay now charges 10% of the selling price as a final value fee and paypal is under 3%. You should get around $87 for a $100 item. You also get 20% off the final value fee if you sell a lot. Not many options available.

[toppszl1]

I do not have a problem with the bay yet, it's the d__n USPS, I'm currently selling right now on the bay and I have 2 messages that my customers are not getting the mail!!

Craigslist?--lol

[Bpm0014]

I left eBay. I sold my old iPhone overseas and to make a long story short, I was the victim of fraud. And Paypal has the balls to ask me to reimburse them $110!! Over 500 transactions without a flaw, but I will never do business with eBay or Paypal again (unless Paypal agrees to waive the $110 they are billing me).

[glchen]

Originally Posted by Bpm0014

I left eBay. I sold my old iPhone overseas and to make a long story short, I was the victim of fraud. And Paypal has the balls to ask me to reimburse them $110!! Over 500 transactions without a flaw, but I will never do business with eBay or Paypal again (unless Paypal agrees to waive the $110 they are billing me).

This is why many ebay sellers refuse to sell to overseas (or even Canadian) buyers.

[novakjr]

I don't use it as much as I used to.. At one point, I did 100% of my buying there. I also don't use it the same way that I used to either. Personally, I'd prefer use the BST here, or comc.com. Ebay however, does still have a lot of great items, that don't pop up in a lot of other places. There are still plenty of great deals to be had, so it just sees silly for me to completely abandon it.

On the selling side, I've never sold much, but have been contemplating it. Ebays constant changes are probably the main reason I keep procrastinating when it comes to selling. I really don't feel like jumping through their hoops..

[kamikidEFFL]

very rarely sell on there but i do buy stuff from time to time on there. But i have no found other places to purchase so I try to stay away when I can

[ls7plus]

This is all very, very interesting, as I periodically buy on E-Bay, but have never personally sold an item through that venue. My experience as a buyer has always been completely satisfactory.

Best to all,

Larry

[bobbyw8469]

I had a guy offer $60 for a 57 topps wrapper that sold on ebay for over $200.

LOL....not to knock net54, cause I love it here, but I ran into the same thing. Was told "Hey - I'm a collector!", as though that justified him lowballing me. I'm a collector too, but I don't expect to pay $60 for a $200 item!!

And then you have the other extreme on Ebay. Offered VCP average for a BIN/OBO Killebrew rookie. The guy already had a very high price on the card. He countered with $5 off his sky high price! Thanks, but no thanks buddy! I ended up winning the one last night thru an auction house, a half grade higher, for less money!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!