eBay

retroman_studios · ‎03-10-2016

I recall when I first opened my eBay account, to sell you had to have at least 10 feedback before they would let you sell plus I had to register my credit card if I recall correctly.

Now I see so many sellers with zero feedback and a few who a month or two later are hit with negatives and/or suspended from eBay.

Clearly something isn't working for eBay. As a seller I don't worry too much as this only helps my sales since I have very good feedback compared to these drop ship startups (I assume anyways)

As a buyer it's kinda of a letdown as sometimes there is something you would like but even with buyer protection you have to wonder is it worth it?

It seems most of these sellers are just peddling cheap Chinese products most of which don't work fully here in Canada anyways. I've seen so many auctions for 5.5" Cellphones for under $100 but lacking the frequencies to do anything useful except for 2G service.

There I said it. 🙂

ypdc_dennis · ‎03-10-2016

@nvigate.systems wrote:
I recall when I first opened my eBay account, to sell you had to have at least 10 feedback before they would let you sell plus I had to register my credit card if I recall correctly.

I don't remember that being a requirement. My memory (hazy as it is) remembers a minimum number of sales before you could start selling out of country.

Credit card for paypal, yes. Because you couldn't sell using the base level of paypal at that time (for me 12 or 13 years ago).

pocomocomputing · ‎03-10-2016

@ypdc_dennis wrote:
@nvigate.systems wrote:
I recall when I first opened my eBay account, to sell you had to have at least 10 feedback before they would let you sell plus I had to register my credit card if I recall correctly.

I don't remember that being a requirement. My memory (hazy as it is) remembers a minimum number of sales before you could start selling out of country.

Credit card for paypal, yes. Because you couldn't sell using the base level of paypal at that time (for me 12 or 13 years ago).

Way back 7+ years when I started selling, you had to have a certain amount of feed back to do things as a seller. I think you could list an auction but fixed price required 5 or 10 feedback. I remember buying some Canada Post Flat Rate boxes for 1.99 or 2.99 to get 1 one feedback. The I bought 2 more packs to try to get to 5 feedback but I only got to 4 because I did not know that two separate purchases in the same week did not count as 2, only 1 feedback, when from the same seller.

Back then, there were many feedback sellers who sold eBooks for 99 cents with no shipping so that you could get around minimum feedback requirements in minutes and build up a healthy feedback score of 50 to 100 in a day.