Thread: Are the glory days over for Ebay??

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Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Hehe, there was a funny thread on the HAMB a little while back about AM radios. This guy said a young girl who lives next door came over to his house with a car AM radio in her hand and wanted to give it to him because "she knew he liked old music." Evidently, she somehow thought old music came out of an AM radio!! Never did find out if she was a blonde.

Don

LOL, that's funny... in my area, there is 1 music station still broadcast over AM, Mostly Classical, but at night they play Music from the 30's- the '50's. About the earliest Music I listen to is Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens

Just incase you didn't know it’s been said that e-bay owns 25% of craigslist. They tried to either buy Western Union (bid pay) or receive a fee from Western Union but they couldn't so e-bay discontinued letting sellers link to accept Western Union (bid pay) as payment on the sellers listing page. What got my wife and others upset was that e-bay is stopping all forms of payment other then paypal. No checks or money orders. The fees also got too large. The new policy was to take effect the first of October but since so many people have complained they have extended the policy for sellers to accept money orders or checks until after Christmas.

If you would like to learn more go to the home page on e-bay and look at the upper right corner and click on Community. Then look on the left side for discussion boards; click on that and you will see several boards discussing what is happening. The one called “soapbox” gives lots of info into what is going on with the e-bay site right now. Lots of people are filing complaints with their state attorney’s office for unfair trade practices as far as trying to make sellers accept only paypal. E-bay started out as a good way for the average person to make a few extra bucks but they got too greedy IMHO.

Richard

I took a $95.00 bath on a truck I listed for my parents. Some dillhole bid on it and never showed to even look at it. I argued with scam-bay for 6 weeks before giving up on ever getting a damn thing back over it. They hit my credit card for $95.00 and I never even got a kiss out of the deal. I wouold never list another car or truck ever, ever again on there.

As a seller, I prefer paypal. To me it's worthj it because I have my money right away. People who pay with money orders will sometimes take weeks. There are so many new people that just don't realize how it is supposed to work.

Well,

My Wife is a Scrapbook fanatic (surely I'm the only one whose better half has this malady? ), but she bought a Store full of Scrapbook stuff and is selling it on Evilbay-drives me nuts but she is having fun (and, to my chagrin, making money at it).

She has had very few problems so far, and has a score above 750 with 0 negative Feedback, so I would have to say that it's been a positive.

I recently bought a very rare Harley on Ebay and had excellent results-I had been looking for this Bike for Years, and if not for Ebay I probably would have never found it-

Originally Posted by mooneye777

I took a $95.00 bath on a truck I listed for my parents. Some dillhole bid on it and never showed to even look at it. I argued with scam-bay for 6 weeks before giving up on ever getting a damn thing back over it. They hit my credit card for $95.00 and I never even got a kiss out of the deal. I would never list another car or truck ever, ever again on there.

Hey,.... I can sing that same song !,....

I put a steel Mullins trailer on ebay for a friend about 18 months ago, the high bidder kept putting me off,.. (in the mean time ebay hit my card for $118.00 )
Then I get a email from the buyer, he said he changed his mind, and if I gave him a negative he would give me a negative,.... so I email all this stuff to ebay (cause you can't talk to anybody) and I get a generic reply saying it's my duty to give him a negative regardless of receiving one myself ! ????.

So as this is going on they hit my card for another $118.00 !,.... I email them and tell them they have double charged me, and the trailer never sold ( I didn't even re-list it) but I did go to the bank and ask that they change my debit card numbers. While I am trying to get the double billing thing taken care of, I get a nasty email from ebay that there going to suspend my account if if I don't pay them the $118.00 from the Mullins trailer auction !!!

I scanned a copy of my bank statement showing they had already debited $236.00 for the same auction # from my account and emailed it to them with a request for reimbursement,..... never got a response, just more nasty emails until I was suspended!

I had close to 400 transactions on ebay and never a negative over a 5 year period of time. I talked to several people about it, and they all said I really have no recourse,... I did report it to the Attorney Generals office but they just acted uninterested,.....

Well they say competition is good in a marketplace, ebay, until now has had very little competition in the market,..... I would like to know what other auction sights are out there.

[QUOTE=highboy32]Hey,.... I can sing that same song !,....

236.00, sorry about that highboy. I dont feel near as bad now for my loss. I think thats terrible and unfortunately there will probably never be another site that could ever compete with those robbers. I know I learned my lesson, but the other 50 million people a week have not.

You guys can "opt out" of the new format. I hated it too. I opted out and am glad to have the old format back.

Don
I still use Ebay to hunt down hard to find parts, or for the occassional awesome deal, but I will never sell on there again, unless Craigslist fails me. I tried to sell a motorcycle on there and the fees were rediculous. I ate about 100.00 and never got a bid. The besty buys are when someone has a typo or misspelled word, that makes it hard for the search engine to find. Cuts way back on the competition.

Originally Posted by Gusaroo

You guys can "opt out" of the new format. I hated it too. I
opted out and am glad to have the old format back.

Just to help this old geeser, how do you opt out of the new format. I didn't see anything pertaining to that.

Originally Posted by chevy 37

Just to help this old geeser, how do you opt out of the new format. I didn't see anything pertaining to that.

I am not sure what you see on your screen, I got put in a group that was testing "myEbay Beta". It was horrible, just as everyone is describing. I guess some people can opt out of the test and others are stuck in it till the end of the testing period. I was unable to "opt out" then one day, I saw the button appear at the top of my screen, I clicked on that sucker, now everything looks like it used too.

Search on the eBay message boards about it, there are a ton of people discussing it.

Originally Posted by chevy 37

Just to help this old geeser, how do you opt out of the new format. I didn't see anything pertaining to that.

At the right top it says: Return to the original eBay Motors. Click that, it,s in blue letters.

Howdy Don! I have to agree with you about Ebay I think its going down hill fast. Didn't know about new owner but that makes sence. Not only is Pay-pal a pain I won't look at items that are marked pay-pal only. I used to go there like everyone else to get a deal but anymore you can just about buy new and do better. Anyway just thougt I'd put in my $0.02 worth. Back to the weeds
Charlie

I'll still buy some of those hard to find locally parts on EBay, but haven't sold a thing there in a couple of years. Where I live, Craigslist really hasn't taken off well but this may help some. Yes, EBay does own a part of Craigs, are a hostile partner and Craigslist has gone to court fairly recently to try to divest themselves of a board member who is EBay management. Not done yet

Originally Posted by redlightning

At the right top it says: Return to the original eBay Motors. Click that, it,s in blue letters.

Also if you don,t like the new my ebay.There is an opt out in the right upper corner,just click it and my ebay is back to the old style.