Problems with eBay?

[bangsportscards]

Good discussion. I believe the fees are ok. Anytime you increase cost there will be objections of some sort.

Real problems may stem from lack of a plan, vision, and/or overall goal. The rising of fees or how high they are is subjective.

eBay provides the greatest exposure for your cards. I don't know of another place online that gives you so many eyes to see a listing.

For that kind of opportunity, I can find a way to incorporate their fee structure into my business to where I'm still able to still move forward peacefully.

There's other areas in eBay to touch on as brought up as I'm not intending on going any deeper at the moment and wanted to share quick insight about this particular.

Brian

[jjj5278]

I've talked with some of my buddies though how what ebay is doing HAS to be illegal, no way they can monopolize the market by forcing people to use paypal..I wish someone with time/money would sue them over it, they could make millions

It'll happen sometime. It'll be a big class action suit just like the other one I mentioned. The problem was I needed to provide them proof of everytime my bid went up when I increased it. Of course there was no record anywhere. At least w/ PayPal I have more history to show everytime I sold something on eBay. They said most of the non-paying complaints they had were b/c of payment options but not PayPal so thats why they outlawed other forms. It absolutely has to be illegal. They are almost as bad as the PO (you pay them to take your package from you, then you pay more to make sure they actually deliver it, then you pay even more to make sure they don't break the items you paid them to take and deliver).

[nadeau01_johnson48]

I don't really have a problem with the whole 'PayPal and eBay both hit you with fees' thing.

It's not any different than your typical state sales tax. There's anywhere from 3-15 different taxes that make up the total sales tax for a specific state. It's not really any different than what PayPal/eBay does.

Forcing people to use PayPal....now that's a whole different story. I agree completely that that's ridiculous.

[pitchn09]

I've got a problem with how they handle non paying bidders...they have the 2 strike deal where sellers can block people that have not paid 2 times within a year but I still think there should be something put onto their feedback by ebay (not the seller being duped) when a bidder skips out on a deal. The seller ends up wasting his time and money trying to get his fees back and missing out on other bidders that would have paid all the while the non paying bidder keeps 100% feedback. Kinda defeats the purpose of having feedback at all to me if only the seller is being left the feedback.

[jjj5278]

I don't really have a problem with the whole 'PayPal and eBay both hit you with fees' thing.

It's not any different than your typical state sales tax. There's anywhere from 3-15 different taxes that make up the total sales tax for a specific state. It's not really any different than what PayPal/eBay does.

Forcing people to use PayPal....now that's a whole different story. I agree completely that that's ridiculous.

Thats why I just want them to take away the PayPal fee if you're accepting payment for an eBay auction. Its easy enough that they could track to make sure you weren't lying. Keep PayPal fees for sales made outside of eBay so they can still make money (which I highly doubt they have trouble doing, lol).