Is Ebay The Worst Run Company of all time?

Beastmode · #1 09-21-2016, 11:42 PM

I'm guessing you don't fail into this category but I've heard e-bay is trying to cull the herd a little. Too many sellers with ridiculous prices essentially using e-bay to store photos of their overpriced listings. Cluttering up searches and turing the newbie's off.

What they want is sellers to sell their stuff and turnover their inventory. If you can't do that in 30 days, they figure your squatting. I feel for you. Need to either be a massive seller, or onesy-twosy, anything in the middle and your a target.

MULLINS5 · #2 09-21-2016, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Beastmode

I'm guessing you don't fail into this category but I've heard e-bay is trying to cull the herd a little. Too many sellers with ridiculous prices essentially using e-bay to store photos of their overpriced listings. Cluttering up searches and turing the newbie's off.

What they want is sellers to sell their stuff and turnover their inventory. If you can't do that in 30 days, they figure your squatting. I feel for you. Need to either be a massive seller, or onesy-twosy, anything in the middle and your a target.

This is correct. Exactly what I was told by eBay when I called them about my account.

gabrinus · #3 09-22-2016, 01:09 AM

Rhett, I have a 46 card lot on that I am not able to find via my regular searches so right now I am a little inclined to agree with you.......Jerry

slidekellyslide · #4 09-22-2016, 07:32 AM

Did you guys know that ebay sells boxes on ebay? Check out their feedback, and then look at their DSR ratings. How is that possible? How are they a top rated seller with highest buyer ratings?

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAP...edbackAsSeller

autograf · #5 09-22-2016, 07:42 AM

Ebay sucks. Period. Sucks. Period. Unfortunately, they are the 800 lb gorilla. I had a similar issue a few years ago and I had to call every month, get a 10-15% increase on the amount of items I could sell each and every month. Erstwhile, they're letting people scam people day and night as long as they get a plug nickel off what the scammers are selling. Fake Wagners, fake autographs, etc, rampant on the site while the other people are languishing away. They operate a completely bogus feedback system that, inexplicably, won't let sellers 'ding' or 'neg' buyers. It's really ridiculous. You really have to hit all your marks 100% on those 5's to be able to operate normally without being throttled down. I think what they expect is that ONLY people who operate business completely on ebay should be allowed to operate. Those few of us who are gainfully employed and do this for the same reasons you do aren't who ebay wants their bread and butter to be. Good luck dealing with the faceless machine of ebay to get this problem solved..............

pbspelly · #6 09-22-2016, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Beastmode

I'm guessing you don't fail into this category but I've heard e-bay is trying to cull the herd a little. Too many sellers with ridiculous prices essentially using e-bay to store photos of their overpriced listings. Cluttering up searches and turing the newbie's off.

What they want is sellers to sell their stuff and turnover their inventory. If you can't do that in 30 days, they figure your squatting.

Not that what they did to you was proper in any fashion, but this is a real problem. I'm constantly amazed at the ridiculous prices some sellers try to sell things for on eBay. People listing cards for three times what they're worth. And not just memorabilia, but new merchandise, priced at twice what I could buy the item for new off of Amazon. Why would anyone pay a higher price on eBay for something you could get from Amazon with complete confidence that it will be shipped quickly and easily returned if it doesn't meet your expectations. Bizarre. I really don't understand half the listings on eBay.

ramram · #7 09-22-2016, 09:34 AM

It sucks that some of the solid sellers get caught up in the sweep but, I have to admit, that if the purpose is to clean up some of the sellers that just camp on ebay with overpriced items then I'm all for that.

I can't tell you how irked I get when doing searches for Old Judge cards and seeing the same cards that are not even priced close to reality. I almost get the opinion that they are simply using ebay only to show off their collection. When I hit my frustration limit, I typically throw out a very satirical listing of my own ridiculously "overpriced" Old Judge card for the purpose of venting at just those kinds of sellers.

Rob M

WhenItWasAHobby · #8 09-24-2016, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beastmode

......I've heard e-bay is trying to cull the herd a little. Too many sellers with ridiculous prices essentially using e-bay to store photos of their overpriced listings. Cluttering up searches and turing the newbie's off.

What they want is sellers to sell their stuff and turnover their inventory. If you can't do that in 30 days, they figure your squatting. I feel for you. Need to either be a massive seller, or onesy-twosy, anything in the middle and your a target.

I would submit as a buyer this is eBay's biggest problem and I'm glad to read that they are trying to frustrate the triple-market-value sellers who've had the same items on Ebay for years that creates what I call "Ebay search pollution".

I don't agree that the Ebay is the worse managed company around, although some of their policies leave a lot to be desired. There are several major businesses I've encountered in the past 8 years that engage in outright consumer fraud which outranks inefficient and poorly constructed business practices any day of the week.

Leon · #9 09-25-2016, 09:52 AM

+1.67

I have seen worse run companies but they should make some more common sense rules too...like drastically limiting the number of bid retractions someone does.

...Also, if they were to show bidder user ID's only AFTER a sale is over it would help them and their community be safer. One can wish....

Lastly, limiting how much a good seller can sell sounds foolish to me. Whatever it is they are trying to accomplish could be done some other way.

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Originally Posted by WhenItWasAHobby

I would submit as a buyer this is eBay's biggest problem and I'm glad to read that they are trying to frustrate the triple-market-value sellers who've had the same items on Ebay for years that creates what I call "Ebay search pollution".

I don't agree that the Ebay is the worse managed company around, although some of their policies leave a lot to be desired. There are several major businesses I've encountered in the past 8 years that engage in outright consumer fraud which outranks inefficient and poorly constructed business practices any day of the week.

Exhibitman · #10 09-25-2016, 01:20 PM

Good point, Leon. I cannot recall a situation where being a good seller is treated as a detriment...

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