Comments on: Retailers and brands are gifted PowerSeller status

By: SAIN

SAIN — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:46:05 +0000

the plus side of ebay is you can have just a debit card and start selling and receiving funds, amazon you need a credit card to be able to register for selling.

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

By: whirly

whirly — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:19:57 +0000

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

By: board_surfer

board_surfer — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:08:55 +0000

now that is funny

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:33:04 +0000

Just got this from the power seller board. John Donahoe Talks with Pierre Omidyar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp2PBPOkeqE
Listen from 2mins 30secs on, rather amusing

By: whirly

whirly — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:00:34 +0000

I think Deb’s might have to up there game also.

Hardly setting the world on fire.

By: EddiE

EddiE — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:07:01 +0000

Debenhams are also the Deal of the Day
as well as being a fast tracked TOP SELLER. — Think I will hide the Debenhams store card from my wife — ( when she is not looking of course )

Realistically — we all have to up our game .

By: alterego

alterego — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:09:40 +0000

I am astonished that there are still people who actually buy into the BS that is the TRS scheme.

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.

By: Fedup

Fedup — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:40:30 +0000

And by the way – it was a bad move, Steve, revealing that you still sell on ebay.

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.

By: Fedup

Fedup — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:58:43 +0000

It seems to me that this unrelenting attack on ‘Steve’ is a diversionary tactic by people close to, or even perhaps, working for Ebay. Sound far fetched? It’s eBay’s modus operandi for trying to crush dissent – just check out the insults hurled on the Yahoo message boards, or the auctionbytes site where the ip of some trolls has been traced to eBay’s San Jose headquarters.

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.

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:18:20 +0000

after months of is ebay not the worst place ever (agree) and I would rather sell on car boot you come out with this bs:
have another account (still running)
make up your mind and if you have why are selling dvd on your ethicalcompanies and not on ebay (my guess is they have banned you and will not let you back on)
I respect you like a lot of people but then you dig yourself a massive hole…