BOYCOTT EBAY

[sauga_source]

We as sellers can complain all we want about the new system. Many of us say we're boycotting eBay.. I bet there's not one seller who can say they're leaving.

..eBay knows this.

[recped]

Lots of sellers are leaving....mostly it's the not very good ones which was part of the motivation for all the changes.

[gifts_of_elegance]

I just closed my store and will let my other listings run out.

[itrecovery]

I only post on promos, no business to e-bay at reg price. If they stop promos I will move somewhere else.

[lina-mallows]

itrecovery - I think you have it right.
When practical list- i.e. CHEAP listing fees. At all others times- why bother?

[ruthsdevildog]

I can't say that I going to leave YET. But I will be listing less items.

[recped]

List less....sell less
Sell less....list less

You'll be out of here in no time.

The only reason to stop or reduce listings is if your stuff doesn't sell or only sells at a price that doesn't give you the profit level you need. If that's the case then the best plan is to find another product to sell.

[ruthsdevildog]

Being a power seller has really had no advantage to me and with the new rules there will be less powersellers overall in time. I've always treated everyone with honesty and feel that I've been extremely fair with buyers but I think the new rules have crossed the line a little too far. Just my opinion for what it's worth.

[toolrackca]

Ebay is asking us to do they won't...serve our customers at a 95% satisfaction rate.

Poll after poll, servey after survey shows that customer satisfaction is hard to hold at 80%...85% is resesrved for Nordstrums. Nothing is rated higher on an ongoing basis. Of course we don't sell at there margins. But nobody comes to Ebay paying Nordsrums prices.

When DSR started I could gauge buyer response in each Feedback. I shipped with free shipping and dropped from 5 to 4.9 on shipping charges even though it was free...would that be a flame now?

We have a couple of Ebay names we are selling under...all at 100% over more then 5 years...Total of more then a thousand transactions with Ebay sales of more then 500K...I can tell you what most of you already know, that it is hard to satisfy everybody all the time. But many of us do, and bend over to do it...Now, don't bend over? Just comply to Paypal?

A}Is Ebay dumbing down?

B}What is our loss to be a POWER SELLER?

C}Should Ebay have a customer satisfaction rate thet they are asking there customers {us} to have?

POWER SELLER is the easiest. Of course as you know, the only Ebay sellers that are audited by REVENUE CANADA are POWER SELLERS.

What do we get for that? A couple of 0.05 listing days and Ebay/Paypal fees that we are always on the short end of.

C} is easy also. Unless you think the people that were in charge of the sub-prime mortgage mess had a good idea...for everybody but themselves. They have for the most part a monopoly.

A} The new 100% is as George Orwell said "DOUBLE SPEAK"...the abillity to argue two contradictory opinions at the same time.

Check Ebay ID emovieposters.com about why after 10 years, 200,000 ebay transactions, $13,000,000,000 USD in sales and 100% feedback he is leaving because of new Ebay polocies.

[toolrackca]

I forgot to add shipping.

90% of the time we subsidize the actual shipping cost. With no charge for boxes or packing material that is always new. Our packing material and actual shipping costs are now on average 12.5% less then we charge.

[lina-mallows]

recped- Congrats on the SHOOTING STAR!

However recped- never forget- you too are just a silly FRACTION of a DSR DECIMAL point away from LOSING your POWER SELLER status!

That's the new reality. For any POWER SELLER- their history is virtually worthless to eBay- no matter how sterling your past has been. A few missteps- and it's bye bye.

Welcome to the BRAVE NEW WORLD OF eBay!