eBay Sellers Consumer Reviews - Page 4

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON -- New Ebay sellers beware. If you wish to sell a few of your items on Ebay, save yourself the trouble. Between the charges from Ebay, Paypal and shipping, I lost money on my items. Do yourself a service and sell locally or privately!

MIAMI, FLORIDA -- Worst experience of selling I've ever had. Will be taking my items to Amazon or elsewhere. The seller department won't help you and they will poorly advise you selling your item. Lots of fraudulent buyers and packed with negative people. AVOID AT ALL COST... Unless you enjoy the headache.

Sellers receive no support when we say No l As is that's what that means. All a buyer has to say is that it came damaged. How simple is that on getting your money back. Make a claim thru the post office. Horrible experience for a seller. I would never refer your company to anyone. Thanks for my new seller experience.

MICHIGAN -- eBay has sold out! It doesn't support its bill paying sellers anymore... they now are burning its sellers for the scammers and fraud buyers taking advantage of its "Buyers protection" program. I have been selling and paying eBay since 1998 and have now been burned 3 times this year by scammers. I will now look for another sellers platform that supports its sellers who pay the bills for them...

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA -- As a seller on eBay I wanted to be fair and honest to my buyers. I only charged actually shipping or less, I didn't want to rip off my buyers. I feel if you are charging actual shipping charges and printing the shipping label through eBay they should not charge you a final value fee on shipping. When you only charge actual shipping charges you lose money because of eBay's fees. With all the fees you pay eBay and PayPal it isn't worth using the site. In some cases I'm sure it costs you to sell. Beware of fees!

USA -- eBay looks out for BUYERS and has "Buyer Protection" but nothing for Sellers. I have been a member of eBay for 14 years, sold more than 550 items, have a 99.2% approval rating, and all ratings for customer service are 4 1/2 stars out of 5, and I was suspended from selling. eBay can suspend you for any reason they deem without cause or for a cause they deem important. They still want me to buy but they are not letting me sell on eBay ever again. Try Amazon Marketplace, they seem to be more customer service oriented. Good Luck.

I sold a solid 14k pendant and gold chain on eBay for 172.00. The buyer, I think, had a change of mind and told eBay it was not as pictured. I had 11 pics, all perfect to show the beauty of this item. Anyway, eBay does not protect the buyers at all, and no returns means nothing to eBay. Why have that option? eBay will always find in favor of the buyer. So buyers be happy, you can screw us and eBay will back you up. So sellers, don't even bother to try to fight it. Just give back the money regardless of why. The buyer will always win.

Some buyers get caught up in the bidding war and lose control and we sellers lose. We lose shipping cost, time and reputation. We lose - it is a no win selling on eBay. I think they want only power sellers not us little guys. eBay and PayPal are one and the same now that eBay bought PayPal. Isn't that handy for eBay. High fees, no protection for sellers at all. I am fed up with eBay and all sellers should stop selling on eBay and then see where eBay will end up. eBay and buyers, lol but no sellers to buy from. Wouldn't that be nice? Have fun eBay. You will see, in the end you will be the big loser.

There is no protection for sellers. Sellers are expected to give positive feedback and you hear buyers online constantly saying "Well why not - I paid quick. Why not give me quick positive feedback quick." Little do they know what its like to be a seller. There have been so many buyers who receive their item and knowingly open a false "item not as described cases" and receive their money back in only minutes. They do not have to prove it was not as described.

Lets say for example a buyer buys a ring and they flat out lie and say it wasn't gold like described - it doesn't matter and they will be not only refunded their money in minutes but get to keep your item and show no proof that they will return it. ITS CALLED FREEBAY! To top it all off even though you lose your money and your item, you are still charged your listing fee and final value fee and have already left positive feedback for a bad seller. For a seller, the deal isn't done until the buyer receives AND is happy with the item and if not happy has good communication for a return and refund.

There is nothing but liars and thieves on eBay and eBay allows it to happen to the people who pay them. I'm not saying buyers should have no protection and there are bad sellers out there but my review is about good sellers and bad buyers. This has never happened to me but eBay buyers know the loopholes and more and more thieves are joining eBay. So I will no longer be a seller for eBay's profit when I know if my time is up and I get a freEbay buyer they won't have my back. Thank you.

I have been an eBay member for a couple of months mostly as a buyer. One day I decided to be a seller and listed an item for sale (my first item) and the next day I received a very cryptic email send to me by eBay simply saying "Your listings were ended for the following reason: "Account Suspension".

All I did was to list a Dr Dre Solo headphone (genuine article, with receipt to prove). So I contacted them via email asking for a detailed reason. They replied the next day with another cryptic explanation: "We reviewed your account and found that there are many security issues about your account. Therefore, your account will remain suspended for security concerns, which include: account taken over by a third party; false/missing/mismatching account information and previous or current involvement in high risk selling."

So I asked them to explain further because I found it puzzling as I was the only owner and have been prompt in my payments as a buyer, my Paypal account and credit card was verified by eBay and all I did was to sell a headphone. All they did was to send me the same email as above, this time with an additional statement: "Although future mails from you might be read, we will not reply."

To add further to my issues, just 2 days before I listed my item for sale, I had purchase a handphone case and paid promptly for it via PayPal. On the same day that eBay sent the account suspension notice, they also send a separate email to say that the item I had bid for was cancelled.

So I ask them via email, what they are going to do to help me since I had already paid for it or how am I going to get my money back? So far no response, probably because of their last statement that "all future emails will be read but will not reply". The experience as a first time seller has certainly not been positive at all for me.

We have had an Ebay account for over 8 years. During this time we went from selling one item to selling hundreds per week. At present our feedback is 99.2 percent. When Ebay changed to free shipping, we complained because as you know, Ebay now charges fees on the shipping we collect to ship products to our customers. For the year prior to this our company sold thousands of items per month on Ebay in the office supply category - selling at prices 40 percent below our competitors.

In April of 2011 Ebay mysteriously closed our Ebay store and took all of our listings off Ebay. The email we received stated that our account was temporarily restricted from selling, but we could buy. When we called and spoke to them on the phone we were told that other people selling in the office supply category had higher performance ratings than we did and that our account was suspended from selling until our performance improved. Of course our question was, if we cannot sell how could our performance ratio change.

I was told that over time negative ratings would drop off and we would become eligible again. Well now four months later, we call Ebay and we are told that we are indefinitely restricted from selling on Ebay due to poor performance over a two month period. Yet our feedback rating is over 99 percent for an 8 year period and our dsr s are all above average.

In my opinion, Ebay has gotten so big that they want to merge out the small mom and pop businesses and people that made Ebay what it is today. Ebay wants only million dollar sellers on their site. They have forgotten the important people who made Ebay what it is today, common folk. Indeed we have found other venues to sell our products online, yet it irks me that Ebay has become so big that they cannot dictate who sells and what they sell and how they sell it.