ebay is disgusting, just disgusting

[vintagehofrookies]

Originally Posted by sportscardtheory

After nearly 10 years as a seller, nearly 5,000 positive feedbacks, nearly $100,000 in sales, $100,000+ in purchases and never any issues, ebay decided to restrict my selling account "forever" due to some arbitrary "minimal" guidelines for selling that were RECENTLY put into place. I can "never" sell on ebay again, and neither can anyone who lives in the same household as me. They never gave me an honest chance to fix the so-called 'problem', just deleted the years of work, time and effort it took to create the 600+ listings I had on there and said 'too bad, you should have done better'. I still have so much money put into what I was selling, and now no means to sell it. I'm completely screwed. All this less than a month before Christmas. I use ebay sales to pay bills, buy presents, etc... Now they tell me to screw off over basically NOTHING with ZERO recourse. Ruining my Christmas, not allowing me to pay my bills, bending me over and telling me 'too bad'. This company is about as UN-AMERICAN as it gets and I hope for nothing but the worst for anyone making these decisions that so negatively affect good people who haven't done ANYTHING wrong who are just trying to get by. I pray for the day that a PROPER auction site is created to compete with and show ebay how to treat people who are their bread and butter. Shame on you, ebay.

this is why I stopped selling on ebay months ago. Its just easier and less hassle to send your cards to a consignor. And by doing that you can actually save money as I found out when I saw probstein's rates and realized they were better than what me as a seller w/100% + 2000+ FB can get. If you don't get screwed by the buyer then ebay will screw you...either way you get screwed! Best of luck to you!

[ALR-bishop]

I am just a buyer on ebay. I have never sold anything there. I remember the days when sellers did have the upper hand. Customer service has improved greatly under the new rules, from my standpoint. But. crazy and or unethical buyers now can play havoc with good sellers, and as a result many no longer sell on ebay. That is a loss for me as a buyer.

I seldom use ebay except for cards, do the current rules favoring buyers cause the same difficulties in other categories of sales ?

[vthobby]

Originally Posted by vintagehofrookies

this is why I stopped selling on ebay months ago. Its just easier and less hassle to send your cards to a consignor. And by doing that you can actually save money as I found out when I saw probstein's rates and realized they were better than what me as a seller w/100% + 2000+ FB can get. If you don't get screwed by the buyer then ebay will screw you...either way you get screwed! Best of luck to you!

Well said. I too have high (over 4000) feedback on Ebay at 100% and can't STAND them anymore. They really do HATE sellers. That sounds crazy doesn't it? I have had more petty and some bigger problems with buyers and ultimately Ebay recently and have also gone the consignor route to PWCC. PWCC does charge a little more (around 20%) but this is only 5% more than I pay with all the fees and hassle etc.. and PWCC has an incredibly transparent and easy to use consignor system that you can find on their web site. Just type in PWCC on google to find it. There is a consignor portal on their site where I just click to see all of my auctions and what they are going for. Flawless and ZERO effort from me. I'm not dealing with customers or ebay for that matter. PERFECT!

peace, mike