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Most Recent Posts eBay makes it real difficult to grow fast ! Policies are made to increase listing fees !Posted Dec-09-07 01:19:06 PST We are a company that buys and sells large lots of overstock merchandise. We recently decided to start selling to the public via eBay. So, we sign up give all kinds of info and bank ifno, same with PayPal. So, we start listing items and we are ready to go right ? WRONG, eBay starts telling us listings not allowed, security bs etc. So, we can only do a few auctions at a time. Not good for a large company to list only 10 items when we plan on selling thousands a day. So we wait then we get a 10 feedback in days (all positive). So we can start selling for real right ? WRONG, it keeps stopping us from listings with errors. We finally figure out why, they will not let us sell internationally. So now our market is smaller and we have limited listings but we have buy it now, with only one item permitted. So we wait and now we have 15 feedback (all positive) So we are ready to go. WRONG, we get warnings from eBay they have decided we are trying to circumvent their listing fees because we are selling items for 99 cents with 7.00 shipping. Never mind that the shipping costs 4.15 with usps and we spend money for packaging materials and time to ship. So if we up the selling fee to 1.99 and lower shipping by a buck they are happy because they get 20 cents more per listing. They claim they sent warnings to protect consumer so they know real costs. Everyone knows to check shipping. Just eBay is greedy. There are millions of listings with totally inappropriate shipping and those stay. Since we are listing lots we get bothered. Makes you wonder ! We spend $100 a day in fees you would think they would care more to help us. We cannot get any person to help or respond to us. I am thinking of starting freeBay a competitive site with no listing fees only final value fees. The monster is getting out of hand and oh so greedy. What do you think ? |