Ebay commiting suicide

[Uncle Ed]

I have been on eBay since 1999. Bought my first laptop back then with a money order and have been addicted since...till the last 2 years.

Ebay is worse now almost every day.

Way to JAVA intensive.
Fewer and fewer auctions vs BIN
Search results ore not accurate but skewed based on what I read in the eBay forums
Way to much Flea Market quality crap results, sometimes by the hundreds.
Slow, slow, slow.
Rules and more rules
Fees and more fees
I could go on.
Way to much BS going on when you search...its harder and harder and slower than ever.
My next set of stuff to sell will be on Bonanzle.
Due to volume I will still use eBay for Radios, but other than that I see ebay losing its identity and most of the forums on ebay are screaming about how John Donahoe is destroying
it by trying to be like Amazon.
If you hav'nt looked...check Bonanzle...just starting to get some stuff....
but alot like eBay was in the earlier days, and looks to be the winner of all the eBay refugee sites that have popped up over the years.

I used to buy all kinds of good **** on eBay for far less than new but adequate for my needs, but it seems thats over.

ie: my last really good buy was an Arneson "POOL VAC" almost new, needed a few springs for $75.00, these sell for $399 new and it took me almost 8 months to find a decent one that
the idiot newbies were'nt bidding sky high, into the $150 - $250 range.
Anyway, sad to see it happen.

 

[MasterBlaster84]

Ed i've been noticing and feeling much the same as you speek of.
Ebay has been getting harder to navigate and they keep changing things to make it less user friendly plus sellers are now highly vulnerable. In a few auctions I couldn't even set true actual shipping charges, they kept telling me my charges were to high for the category! WTF is that about? The category was correct and my charges were the exact true cost of shipping so I had to chose a different category to list in.

I have been hearing the same complaints from just about everybody I know that uses or has used eBay. Seems they are managing to push eBay in a direction that has been thought for sometime nearly impossible and that's to destroy eBay.

 

[redbenjoe]

agree -
-especially that its overly the brand new crap that could not sell at kmart -
or even at the fleas --
plus --its so anti-seller now --that suks

still --it will take several years for ebay to fully destroy itself .

 

[jaetee]

Yup, I remember back to a time when pawn shops did not know about ebay and you could still find good deals locally without too much effort...

Then, pawn shops starting using ebay as a price reference and prices for used stuff went up dramatically....

Now, many pawn shops actually prefer to sell their "good stuff" on ebay....

First I was disappointed about that progression of events, but now I'm just disappointed in ebay as a whole. I used to sell on there a lot but not so much anymore. They get you coming and going with the fees, and then make bank with Paypal. Now you can't even do money order business or accept personal checks anymore.

I agree with all of your points...

It just goes to show that the old saying is true..... all good things must come to an end.

 

[oldskool69]

John, you noted pawn shops...

Now the thrifties!

If they do not use eBay...(Goodwill already does after running their own and Salvation Army should follow soon.), the prices are being marked to reflect the percieved market value based on what it goes online for. And as noted earlier, like the pawn shops, fewer or no tasty bits...

The thrill of finding in the wild is getting harder to come by as well as the "good" online bargain.

 

[Uncle Ed]

.....and the other thing that chaffs my cheeks is these sellers shiat picture taking with their crap phone camera and then from 42 feet away, one picture, on the floor, in the semi dark, with their dogs vomit or some garbage in the picture. ARRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!

 

[MasterBlaster84]

.....and the other thing that chaffs my cheeks is these sellers shiat picture taking with their crap phone camera and then from 42 feet away, one picture, on the floor, in the semi dark, with their dogs vomit or some garbage in the picture. ARRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!

UE I didn't think anybody could crack me up in this thread but you just did.

 

[Boom Shaka Laka]

John, you noted pawn shops...
Now the thrifties!
If they do not use eBay...(Goodwill already does after running their own and Salvation Army should follow soon.), the prices are being marked to reflect the percieved market value based on what it goes online for. And as noted earlier, like the pawn shops, fewer or no tasty bits...
The thrill of finding in the wild is getting harder to come by as well as the "good" online bargain.

EBay killed the thrifties... not just because the thrift stores started selling their "good stuff" at eBay prices or began to sell directly on eBay. But because, pre-eBay, thrift stores actually were places where a poor person could go to find some of life's essentials (and a few non-essentials) at bargain prices. Or where a collector could find a hidden gem at a non-collector price. Nowadays, thrifties have just become warehouses for eBay sellers, who buy up loads of stuff "wholesale"... not to use or collect, but to resell at higher prices on eBay. The entrepreneurial spirit lives! Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who actually keeps (and uses) what I find at thrift stores. And these days, thanks to eBay, I find darned little!

 

[monchito]

wow i likey

 

[MasterBlaster84]

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who actually keeps (and uses) what I find at thrift stores. And these days, thanks to eBay, I find darned little!

I keep most of what I buy and my local thrifts haven't dried up to bad yet although the last few months I've found very few High BIas cassette tapes. My local Goodwills made a deal with a second had cd shop last year so they don't have CD's anymore and now I'm wondering if they are siphoning the tapes too.

 

[steedums]

i hate ebay's sole reliance on paypal. I've been using ebay since 98-99, and have a rating in the 100's, but i've had my paypal acct shutdown twice for who knows what reason (they won't tell you) and it's a huge hassle to get reinstated. The increasing number of store type sales vs auctions is super annoying.

 

[steedums]

Another annoyance I just found: items can be listed as "buy it now" for 30 day listings. I don't want buy it now stuff, let alone things listed for 30 days. Seriously, bidding on anything further than 5 days out is a waste of time anyways.

 

[restocat]

Another annoyance I just found: items can be listed as "buy it now" for 30 day listings. I don't want buy it now stuff, let alone things listed for 30 days. Seriously, bidding on anything further than 5 days out is a waste of time anyways.

Yes that is annoying. It is like having a dog **** on your porch and you can't wash it off, it just sits there for 30 days.

And what about the buy it now that goes away if someone starts bidding on it? Im not even sure if that breaks boomboxery posting rules: What if I post a BIN and the bin goes away?