i hope to own ebay one day god willing and make it better for sellers

5754 views. 2 Star Rating. Yep thats spot on.

Hardly setting the world on fire.

Realistically — we all have to up our game .

It is a complete fee grab. I have gone from PS with discount and 100% feedback to a “Standard” seller in January with no discount. Simply through an arbitrary moving of the goalposts.

Ebay still works for me, I viewed all discounts as a bonus and for me it is still a valid place to sell.

Other people have different ideas and I suspect other people who suffered from the collapse of suppliers would still be selling on Ebay to this day.

Of course the big chains got preferential treatment. They walked in and said “Hey, you want big high street names on your site giving it a level of legitimacy? Oh you do? Well, drop those pants and turn round and we will discuss our fees!”

I would do it to them if I had the size to back it up as well, no use in being a hypocrite there.

My friend made criticisms of eBay on a message board and revealed far too many details about himself. eBay then found his account and did nothing less than torture him. They ended all his hundreds of listings because he failed to put his business information on his eBay store page (he didn’t know he had to do that as he had it in his item won notification email).

They ended them again as he used a generic term in his item description, but they said it was a manufacturer’s name, and so they got him for keyword spamming. (As an example, think to the company ‘Hoover’ and the act of ‘hoovering’ – this wasn’t his exact ‘crime’ but is was the similar use of a manufacturer’s name that has become verb-like, if you will.
eBay linked him to an old NARU’d account – more than two years old – belonging to his ex. That’s how determined they were to run him off the site for daring to voice his annoyance. Six months later, they won’t even answer his emails, let alone let him back on. Make sure they have no reason to hound you, too.

I don’t know ‘Steve’ from Adam – let’s all just agree that he’s is a whining, serial whinger – sorry Steve – in order to move on and not let the topic become derailed by, shall we say ‘friends of eBay’.

No, let’s focus on their outrageously preferential treatment of oulet merchants to the detriment of regular sellers. Sure, they have a rightto do what they want with there site,but us sellers need to let them know that we are not happy with being screwed over.

If you pay for a service you are NOT receiving, then you have a right to complain at the top of your lungs before you walk away.

I accept that Chris is very pro-ebay.

Sue not so pro-ebay.

But commentary from those that feel Ebay have let them down should also have a place.

Censorship can take many forms…

But the main issue here, is that Ebay are favouring the Outlet sellers and the charges of underhandness that are being levelled against Ebay should be dealt with by Ebay.

It is obvious they read this blog, so here is one of the best places to air views.

It would be a shame if the topic was dragged down and “diverted” through “Steve” bashing in my view.

Mark

That really did make me splutter my morning coffee

When the company you worked for, retrowarez went bust, taking with it your customers, suppliers, banks and paypals money. You said ‘its a limited company, thats why we have limited companies’ I also think you also said it was lucky you were able to save yourself and your house from personal bankruptcy due to this legal protection.

Now i have no problem with that, its how company law works.

However now you claim that it was you personally that was a big seller on ebay, well, no it wasn’t. It was your employers retrowarez LIMITED, a seperate legal entity.

If you want to take the credit, you also have to pay the people you ripped off. Make up your mind.

As for commenting on what I say am I going to have to go all Voltaire on you ??

Whilst I can’t speak for Steve, I think he got the message the first time.

Also agree that Steve Anthony Williams should try contructive criticism.

They are gifted TRS.

Take a look at Argos who have suddenly qualified for TRS:

Argos have:

1.10% Negs and Neutrals. (Past 30 Days)
1.06% Negs and Neutrals. (Past 6 Months)

Considering some positive feedback customers also leave low DSR’s, how on earth have Argos managed to get below 0.5% in all 4 criteria’s?

I think that this should be a new post.

The same has happened for Littlewoods and Schuch, they are no where near qualifying.

What really puts me off however is your comment about it being Very Difficult.
I know my EKM shop is as radams describes it “Bog standard”, but it works for me. I daresay that a better front end shop might bring in more customers, but I have been pleasantly surprised at how successful it has been.

But its real selling point for me – is its easy peasy. I play with HMTL but I’m way behind my kids on IT matters.

Thanks for the update

Magento requires a lot of changes to make it suitable for most ecommerce shops, not least the template system it uses is VERY complicated and difficult to make it look unique.

I would suggest NOT using an external company to design/code etc yuo Magento site, instead hire someone on a part time basis. It will work out better value in the long run.

Having said that, once you get your head around how Magento works, it’s an amazing piece of software and allows you to have multiple websites/domains running from one installation.

My point is that even with a bog standard shop I’m now getting business outside of ebay and even if it is bog standard its doing very well.

If you have viewed it you will appreciate that my categories are a bit mixed up and it really need some care and attention.

It’s doing so well that I am seriously looking at increasing its size whilst decreasing my ebay inventory.
Quite apart from the additional business, it’s incredibly refreshing to OWN and CONTROL you own site.

I really am getting fed up jumping through ebay hoops, and I accept that there are some impressive packages on offer, but as I said previously I will only stay at a platform if it pays, and at the moment my EKM shop is bringing in extra revenue.

The packages you have linked too look good, but I think they might be beyond my technical skill. At the moment I’m committed to my EKM shop, but will look at these packages with a view to the future.

You have given me food for thought – so thank you for you suggestions and advise