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Ebay gone to far with new policy change from 4th Feb 2025!
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bittyboy101 said:RFW said:bittyboy101 said:
eBay's ruthless business attitude stinks and eventually eBay will fail one day when another site comes along which they cannot close down or buy out.
As a business I'm currently on 5 marketplaces plus my own website. Ebay is third on revenue and fourth on profit, I'll probably ditch it again in a couple of months. You really don't have to use Ebay. I say that as someone who used to have it as their main source of income.0 -
danny69 said:One idea for eBay would be to limit the number of items that can be listed. How many do Private Sellers get per month? Is it 300? Who needs to list 300 items of unwanted items?!
I doubt most real private sellers need that many listings. But there is a psychological benefit to not having to worry about listing limits, you just list as much and as often as you want without being put off by the possibility of hitting any caps or having to check first. And people being more willing to list = slightly more money for eBay.1 -
noitsnotme said:bittyboy101 said:RFW said:bittyboy101 said:
eBay's ruthless business attitude stinks and eventually eBay will fail one day when another site comes along which they cannot close down or buy out.
As a business I'm currently on 5 marketplaces plus my own website. Ebay is third on revenue and fourth on profit, I'll probably ditch it again in a couple of months. You really don't have to use Ebay. I say that as someone who used to have it as their main source of income.
Before eBay revised Cassini and launched item specifics I had sold 684 items with strong regular weekly sales... since the revised "Cassini" and "item specifics" I only sold just 36 items in 4 years.
They really messed up everything by doing away with certain categories and merging everything all into one giant pool category which now defaults to "best match" when someone goes to search for an item on eBay
eBay now shows tons of irrelevant stuff mainly from USA and lots of Chinese seller junk, even selecting "UK only" still brings up lots of fake UK seller stuff where the seller lies by saying that the item is in UK/ships from UK in 2-3 days when it is really being shipped from China with an 11 day wait !
To be honest as an experienced and well seasoned eBay seller of 20 years I have noticed a massive decline in sales and interest over the last 4 years... items which used to sell well like hot cakes after only 1-2 views now sit there indefinitely for weeks, months, years with next to no views and even relisting under "sell similar item" now no longer works to revive sales as eBay have done something to block this.
To add insult to injury whenever I look at my own listing page I see other people's items which are being sold much cheaper than I can afford to sell for...so I've now lost before I've even started !... as any potential buyer who's looking at my item will also see another one cheaper and buy that one instead !.... leaving me completely undermined !!
So this is now what eBay is like... and with the new 2025 changes to eBay regarding managed shipping (forced "Simple Delivery") and severely delayed payments of now 48 hours after a confirmed delivery ! make eBay even more less appealing than ever !
So I am willing to try any other selling site that just lets me sell straight forward without any hiccups of slow payment and over the top changes which cause a degree of inconvenience and concern when a seller has no liberty or say which delivery service eBay will randomly use on your behalf to deliver your expensive sold item to your buyer...
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bittyboy101 said:noitsnotme said:bittyboy101 said:RFW said:bittyboy101 said:
eBay's ruthless business attitude stinks and eventually eBay will fail one day when another site comes along which they cannot close down or buy out.
As a business I'm currently on 5 marketplaces plus my own website. Ebay is third on revenue and fourth on profit, I'll probably ditch it again in a couple of months. You really don't have to use Ebay. I say that as someone who used to have it as their main source of income.2 -
noitsnotme said:bittyboy101 said:noitsnotme said:bittyboy101 said:RFW said:bittyboy101 said:
eBay's ruthless business attitude stinks and eventually eBay will fail one day when another site comes along which they cannot close down or buy out.
As a business I'm currently on 5 marketplaces plus my own website. Ebay is third on revenue and fourth on profit, I'll probably ditch it again in a couple of months. You really don't have to use Ebay. I say that as someone who used to have it as their main source of income.
On their site Ebid state something like;- "Ebid started in 1995 and unlike other selling platforms during all this time we have kept everything the same without making any changes that other platforms keep on making"
I like this. I don't like changes. I like simplicity and things to stay the same years later.
I like these Ebid guys. They are sensible and understand what people want.... and that is what they are used to ! not new stuff which is a headache.0 -
bittyboy101 said:noitsnotme said:bittyboy101 said:noitsnotme said:bittyboy101 said:RFW said:bittyboy101 said:
eBay's ruthless business attitude stinks and eventually eBay will fail one day when another site comes along which they cannot close down or buy out.
As a business I'm currently on 5 marketplaces plus my own website. Ebay is third on revenue and fourth on profit, I'll probably ditch it again in a couple of months. You really don't have to use Ebay. I say that as someone who used to have it as their main source of income.
On their site Ebid state something like;- "Ebid started in 1995 and unlike other selling platforms during all this time we have kept everything the same without making any changes that other platforms keep on making"
I like this. I don't like changes. I like simplicity and things to stay the same years later.
I like these Ebid guys. They are sensible and understand what people want.... and that is what they are used to ! not new stuff which is a headache.1 -
bittyboy101 said:noitsnotme said:bittyboy101 said:noitsnotme said:bittyboy101 said:RFW said:bittyboy101 said:
eBay's ruthless business attitude stinks and eventually eBay will fail one day when another site comes along which they cannot close down or buy out.
As a business I'm currently on 5 marketplaces plus my own website. Ebay is third on revenue and fourth on profit, I'll probably ditch it again in a couple of months. You really don't have to use Ebay. I say that as someone who used to have it as their main source of income.
On their site Ebid state something like;- "Ebid started in 1995 and unlike other selling platforms during all this time we have kept everything the same without making any changes that other platforms keep on making"
I like this. I don't like changes. I like simplicity and things to stay the same years later.
I like these Ebid guys. They are sensible and understand what people want.... and that is what they are used to ! not new stuff which is a headache.
The trick with ebid is that you have to advertise your items outside of ebid, people don’t browse ebid like they do eBay, you need to be setting up adverts and links wherever it is allowed on other sites to get people to your individual items. There are forums you can use to chat and advertise on ebid, but they don’t get much traffic, but have a look at advice on there.
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bittyboy101 said:
On their site Ebid state something like;- "Ebid started in 1995 and unlike other selling platforms during all this time we have kept everything the same without making any changes that other platforms keep on making"
I like this. I don't like changes. I like simplicity and things to stay the same years later.
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03697708/filing-history
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Spoonie_Turtle said:danny69 said:One idea for eBay would be to limit the number of items that can be listed. How many do Private Sellers get per month? Is it 300? Who needs to list 300 items of unwanted items?!
I doubt most real private sellers need that many listings. But there is a psychological benefit to not having to worry about listing limits, you just list as much and as often as you want without being put off by the possibility of hitting any caps or having to check first. And people being more willing to list = slightly more money for eBay.
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RFW said:bittyboy101 said:
On their site Ebid state something like;- "Ebid started in 1995 and unlike other selling platforms during all this time we have kept everything the same without making any changes that other platforms keep on making"
I like this. I don't like changes. I like simplicity and things to stay the same years later.
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03697708/filing-history
With eBay, they just kept on advertising and expanding more and more as the years went by, whilst Ebid just remained the same (as a hobby auction site), eBay did originally start off also as an hobby auction site but their wealthy American owner - Pierre Omidyar had other ideas of doing more and more to increase eBay's size and turnover... whilst the British owned Ebid just remained the same - as an down to earth hobby auction site with no real changes.
...but now it seems that eBay have become too overgrown and the searches are bloated, so they have to ration sales from small business sellers and private sellers and give priority to the big power sellers who have multi million pound business deals invested with eBay and must keep within their targeted sales as eBay must deliver what their multi million pound deal promised !
So it's clear that eBay now has no regards for small sellers, whether private or business, so they are pushed back and no longer make the regular sales that they once used to make before eBay started doing big business deals with lots of China sellers and big companies which are now all that matters to eBay.
So eBay can stay big, there is such a thing as TOO BIG !0
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