Vent regarding ebay buyer

[Lynn]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Fast67VelleN2O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I sell a lot on ebay. Almost 25 items a week. Out of every 500 customers, you get one you can't please no matter what. I just chalk it up as doing business. Ebay's fees and seller services, on the other hand, SUCK. No seller protection whatsoever and they are really sticking it to the seller with the fees. The seller MAKES EBAY. Without the sellers, they have no business. This has been hashed and rehashed over and over, but until there is another game in town, ebay is all we got.

-Matt </div></div>

I don't have a problem with ebay's basic fees. I do however, have a problem with the paypal fees. Come one, every bank in town would go out of business if they started charging $30 for a $1,000 check. And to make matters worse, if it isn't on ebay motors, ebay's &quot;policy&quot; requires payment through paypal.

I still haven't figured out why in the world there is no serious competition. There have to be some computer savvy guys out there willing to put together a better automotove selling site.

[427.060]

There is a thread on a sports card forum about something similar to this. The guy sold a $2000 professionally graded card on Ebay. The buyer busted the card out of the case and replaced it with a fake card. He then filed a claim saying ith card was not as described. Of course Ebay sided with the buyer and had him ship the fake card back to the seller. Ebay refunded the money. The seller now owes Ebay $2000 and is out his original card. See the link below for the thread.
James

http://forums.collectors.com/message...hreadid=764085

[SuperNovaSS]

Lynn,


Ebay final value fees are now 9%. Have a problem with that?


Jason

[Lynn]

I hear you Jason. No doubt the fees are getting out of hand. That is why I usually post things for sale first on specialty sites like this one. Just not so bad yet, that I will quit using them when needed. There simply isn't a good alternative when you need to show pics and my need national exposure because you have a limited market.

I recently sold a REALLY NICE red 1982 Suzuki GS1100EZ with 6200 original miles. I posted for sale over at thegsresources.com. Bike was priced fairly at $2800 and the add was up for a month. A few nibbles, but no takers. Finally put it on ebay where it sold for, you guessed it, $2800 to a very nice fellow from New Mexico. Jason, I notice you do the same thing from time to time, and I appreciate you postig things for sale here first. I always look here and at camaros.net before resorting to ebay.

Surely ebay is about to price themselves out of the market, especially with the paypal fees added to that 9%. Starting to rival Barrett - Jackson.

[Enoch]

E-bay thinks the sellers are stupid. They tell you they are lowering insertion fees but then they raise the final selling fee. Oh well untill someting better comes along I have to sell there. I usually sell a few thousand items a year (all small stuff) and once or twice a year I have some one I can't please no matter what. But most of my customers are repeat and have been loyal for several years and more and more buy off line. I hope I get to the point I don't need to use e-bay.

Rich

[67L78conv]

Creating a replacement or serious competitor site for E-Bay is not actually as hard as it may sound. Where the problem lies is that it is very time consuming and requires a team first to create it and then maintain it. Unlike basic little sites you cannot go and purchased a canned site and try and build it to that size, it requires mountains of extra work beyond a normal website. Once created it requires another mountain of cash to market and get it off the ground. In short if you can assemble the people to create it (that is the easy part) you need to fund and staff it which means you need a capital investor which for web sites are very few and far between these days. Those that have managed to make a run at it have not had the resolve to really and truly compete against them and as soon as they gain any steam take the quick cash and sell to them so that they can eliminate the competition which frankly at this point I do not know how they have avoided anti-trust issues and a few other legal infractions that they have going on in their practices.

I have even gone as far as to lay out the framework for building a competitive online auction site to go against them (I'm not to bad on the programming end) but have the same issues as everyone else. No funding and can't afford to go and take the time and do it myself in the current economy. I would love to build something geared to the safety of everyone, buyer and seller, dig into Ebays bottom line without sacrificing the people who make the site happen. Sadly though that is not the vision of the few investors that I have approached with the idea, they would all prefer the fast buck and take the sellout. Even then none would back it. One day though if I can find the right investor, I will make a go of it. Here's to dreaming!

[al8apex]

here is to you!

I would be the 1st to go

Have you tried talking to Hemmings?

They are the natural in my mind ...