Ebay pulling listings for

[Smokey]

I was thinking the same. Look up 1969 big block curved necknradiator for a Camaro. There hasn't been one sold in a long long time. Same with some old Fenton 6 cyl parts and NOS trim I want to unload.

I had a big sale on there last spring and out of the 100-150 things I sold on there, I got ratings on about 30-50 of them. Out of that lot that I sold, I had to call eBay about questions about why I got my listing cancelled, POS buyers, and so on and so forth. If they want to charge and do the games that they do, throw us a bone and let us give neg feedback as a seller which we can't, or lets us take cash and other forms of payments other than on cars. The other thing that gets me going is the shipping calculator that is wrong 50% of the time if not more.

I would rather sell something to find a good home for it than throw it away even if its a $10 thing. So Joe spends $10 on a pair of crusty traction bars that are straight and it cost $32.88 via usp ship it. Now I'm the bad person since the calculator told him $12.04. There isn't enough money in the cookie jar to send parts for free in the mail all the time.

[Ngtflyr]

have you considered Craigslist, it's free and in a bigger city like Seattle you would get decent exposure. It is easy to use and I've had success with a lot of off the wall stuff. Prepare to get lowballed, some people view it as a garage sale.

[agtw31]

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Prepare to get lowballed, some people view it as a garage sale.

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what is wrong with lowballing people on Craigslist,if it works?

[Mr. Chevy]

Figures someone was complaining. That is usually how this all starts. Personally E-bay could probably care less but when it is brought to their attention and does violate some little policy they have to act on it..

Rich

[RichSchmidt]

I had a listing pulled for a parts car I had for sale.It was just a bare shell.I put in the add that if the winning bidder didnt want the entire car they were welcome to come down and take what they need and I would scrap the rest.They kept saying that I was trying to sell parts off the car.O.K. I am willing to pay the $125 listing fee just to sell a few parts?I kept telling them that somebody had to actually win the auction,then I would remove what they needed and scrap the car.They still didnt understand.I removed the wording.Got a whopping 4199 for the car.I would have made more money scrapping it.Idiots.

[Verne_Frantz]

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What's a guy to do?

thats the million dollar question...I was hopeing by now a new site would have popped up by now. I have a bunch of misc stuff to sell and with listing and paypal fee's its not worth messing with especailly when they yank your add and dont credit you back anymore if they dont like your wording, you eat it and like it!!, guess a guy has to start dragging everything back to the swap meets, I sure liked buying stuff off ebay for projects even paying a little to much most of the time but hey it was on the way in the brown truck, it seams others are doing the same I just dont see the large quanities of parts like I used to, just tons of re pop dealers pimping parts.

one thing is still good today

Peace, B.

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I agree with you Bud. If ONLY someone else would start an auction site very similar to what ebay was in the beginning, I think it would take off. (just like ebay did). Rising fees were hard to accept, but when they bought Paypal and required that it be used (with another 2.9% off your sale price) that was just too much to swallow. And now I hear Paypal can hold your money for a while before you can transfer it to your bank account. I wonder just how much money is in the big Paypal bucket on a given day???
Verne