eBay: No longer required to offer remorse returns

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by hcv123

Ebid - anyone have any experience there or elsewhere?

Ebid, Bonanza, Ecrater all seem like attractive alternatives, until you realize how little traffic they get compared to eBay. I currently have all of my stuff crosslisted on Bonanza simply because they have an automated free-to-list option that mirrors my eBay listings, and slightly lower fees when something sells. Occasionally something does actually sell, but it's about 1-2% of the volume I sell on eBay with literally the exact same inventory, even when priced slightly lower on Bonanza. Sure, that's an additional 1-2% that I miss out on otherwise, and crosslisting is automated now that it's set up, but not worth the time and effort to list there directly or if they ever charged listing fees up front.

[Yastrzemski Sports]

I had to buy a box of cards for a customer before Christmas. So I went onto eBay and bid on a box. Then was quickly outbid. So I bid on another and won. Then found out that I won two. In the first auction the top bidder retracted his bid. He bid me all the way from $61 to $67. Then retracted his top bid and it cost me $66. So I called eBay to complain about this bidder. They did nothing. A few days later I called and complained again. Here is his profile. He has 36 feedback. In the past 12 months he has retracted 253 bids. And eBay is doing nothing about it. They got an extra $5 out of me so for a short sighted, short term extra money grab it works. But I have bought very little else because of this and I have resisted selling anything new on there lately because characters like this are allowed to run around and do whatever they want. Btw- the other box I ordered came damaged because it was shipped in a bubble mailer. It’s unbelievable what’s going on there and I wish they would clean it up. This should have been a simple transaction that became very disheartening.

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