Ebay is a ripoff

[bob]

Someitimes items can best be sold on Ebay I will concede that. However they sure are greedy. Item sold for $US1124 buyer paid on May19 after fees payment $962.58 (14.5%). Okay that is about what most auction sites would charge. However, payment is "on hold" till June 19 because I am considered a new seller even though I have been on for 23 years.. In addition, in the old days payment would have been deposited in PayPal account but now, no choice, only to bank account. Because I am in Canada it will be converted to $ Canadian so they will eventually pay $C1258.97 but today at my bank it would be $1289.97 so an extra $31. No use complaining to Ebay as the best you can do is talk to a person in customer service that barely speaks English and has no authority do do anything. Can you telI am pissed of with them?
Bob

 

[challenger]

Ebay isn't what it once was.MANY people buy online sale items and sell on eBay. They even make it their job. It's a butt load of work though. Buyer beware.

 

[GregSY]

The modern model for almost all businesses is...if you aren't screwing your customers - and hard - you aren't doing it right.

Look at Apple. Any software company. Car companies. Restaurants. Grocery stores.

I actually can't remember the last time I dealt with a business and didn't see unethical behavior. I probably could if I thought about it long enough.....OK, McMaster Carr is a rare example of an honest business. One of few.

 

[gbent]

We screwed the last guy and passed the savings on to you. Low price mentality.

 

[Limy Sami]

You men you've only just worked that out??

FWIW a friend closed their Ebay shop because of the fees and delayed payment .......... and does just as well out of FB Marketplace.

 

[PackardV8]

This rant is about ten years late. After fantastic success growing into the world's largest individual auction site, eBay saw the even greater success of Amazon and decided to pivot in that direction. Individual auctions were deemed too much trouble, so eBay set about to price and inconvenience them off the site, thus being able to spend eBay's time and customer support with retail businesses. Get over it.

jack vines

 

[lucky7]

You men you've only just worked that out??

FWIW a friend closed their Ebay shop because of the fees and delayed payment .......... and does just as well out of FB Marketplace.

Agree, but imo, Faceboo’s search engine is embarrassingly poor. Just as an example, my marketplace search just now of my own province searching for ‘jointer’ had over half the items listed not being even vaguely related to a jointer.

 

[Newman109]

A couple of years ago, I sold a nice banjo on eBay for $3,000. After all was said and done, the 15% total costs for PayPal and eBay amounted to $450.00! I netted $2,550 and lost money on the deal. This is typical nowadays.
I now only use eBay for purchases and it would only be for something rare that can't be found on Amazon. eBay has gone rogue.

 

[Limy Sami]

Agree, but imo, Faceboo’s search engine is embarrassingly poor. Just as an example, my marketplace search just now of my own province searching for ‘jointer’ had over half the items listed not being even vaguely related to a jointer.

But it's cheap, ...........and a good way to waste an hour ........... had a screaming deal on a very early Mitchel fishing reel ..Sami was well made

 

[challenger]

Agree, but imo, Faceboo’s search engine is embarrassingly poor. Just as an example, my marketplace search just now of my own province searching for ‘jointer’ had over half the items listed not being even vaguely related to a jointer.

Look up "trans". I bet you get lots of hits. Not you personally

 

[bob]

Remember Reliable? Started good but got greedy. Too bad.

 

[richard newman]

A couple of years ago, I sold a nice banjo on eBay for $3,000. After all was said and done, the 15% total costs for PayPal and eBay amounted to $450.00! I netted $2,550 and lost money on the deal.

These days fees on musical instruments > guitars and basses are 6.35%. And they send your funds directly to your bank now rather than Paypal. I've been selling small boards of Brazilian Rosewood under that classification and doing quite well. Not sure one could sneak a banjo in tho...

I prefer FB for selling local stuff, but for national markets eBay is much better. FB's search function is truly exasperating, unless you find all the nonsense stuff entertaining

 

[Rob L]

eBay fees are well known, they are high and I wish they were lower but it is what it is, if you can't accept them you shouldn't list there.

I sell on eBay a lot, both business and personal selling, on the business side it's extremely good for finding new customers but I do charge a bit more than I would through my own website because of the fees. On the personal side I wait until they do up to 80% off final value fee offers to list and end listings and relist them when they come up again if items didn't sell the first time, saves a fortune on the fees and the reality is it's easier to sell a lot of the stuff I do on there and I get better prices for it all, there just isn't a better option for getting rid of that stuff, it's all too specialist for the likes of FB market place.

The absolute worst thing about eBay is that the customers there tend to be more problematic than ones who buy from my own website, but they have made changes lately which deal with some of the issues like damaged returns, but honestly since covid customers in general have got more problematic.

 

[Bill D]

I see companies that have perpetual listings of way overpriced items . they use it as free advertising since they pay no fees until the item is sold. Like one drill bit for $25,000 with no picture of the item but a photo of their street sign with address and phone number in the picture.
Bill D

 

[SteveEx30]

Been using Ebay since '02 mostly for buying System 3R tooling and parts for my machines. I can't complain at all, many great deals over the years.
But ya for the seller it definitely sucks as Ebay certainly takes their cut.

Had to use their customer service one time, that was definitely a joke.

 

[jwearing]

Ebay fees are high, but prices are easily 15% higher than you can get elsewhere. You're better off bending over and paying the exorbitant fees than selling on Craigslist or FBM. You can create your own website but you'll never see even 1/10 the volume as you'll get on ebay.

Don't get me wrong, I hate ebay, and the greedy sellers that price their crap ridiculously high. I stopped selling there about 5 years ago.

 

[Richard King]

Ive been selling a Scraping DVD, USB stick and the Connelly book for years. they raised the fee's last year, so i upped my prices to cover the loss. another thing is I stopped selling outside the USA as eBay was offering a mail service to out of the country (usa} and 1/2 the time I sold to another country ebay lost the shipment or the buyer said he never received it. i could track it to the ebay location in south Carolina or someplace like that but once there, no tracking. then if i couldn't prove the buyer got it ebay assumed it was my fault and if i did't refund the money they would put my account on hold. now i put in bold capital letters NO SALES OUTSIDE THE USA. One guy in Estonia ordered one and i refunded the money and messaged him,.please read the description. Like someone said, GREED has taken over ebay. but i have no other source.

 

[johfoster]

It's not how much cheaper someone could do something for you, but it is how much more expensive will it be to do it yourself? I may not like ebay fees and red tape, but I sure don't have a way to provide the same for less either. It serves it's purpose, just know what you are getting into.

If I can't do something cheaper myself, and can't find someone else to do it cheaper, then can I really complain about the price?

 

[Strostkovy]

Ebay and Amazon attract sellers by having buyers. They attract buyers with good customer service policies, siding with buyers.

You can ship an item and still have to refund what you were paid because the buyer claims to have not received it. Buyers like the peace of mind of low scam risk, easy refunds, and disputes that generally favor them.

There are other platforms kinder to buyers than sellers. They don't have nearly as many buyers, and have scam issues because some people abuse anything they can.

Delayed payment is an industry wide accepted solution to reduce the effectiveness and ease of scamming buyers.

 

[true temper]

I finely caved in and opened an other bank account just for EBay, I had some parts that I’d never sell anywhere else.I don’t like it but tuff shit if you want is sold you play by their rules.
The last couple of items I sold they released my money before I even had them shipped.