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I was with ebay since 1998 building an on-line business to use during my retirement. I have 1355 positive feedbacks. As you can see, I spent time and effort doing this. But, ebay starting making changes to their policies for seller's rating Detailed Seller Rating. At first I don't think buyers realized what an impact a less than 5 star rating could have on a seller. This impacted our account on 2 minor issues and we were taken off ebay as a seller. I know from our experience over the years that you have to be wary of any bidder who has only 1 or 2 feedbacks because they are not likely to be educated enough to know what the DSR or Negative feedback could mean to the seller. These people also won't be savvy enough to contact the seller should they have a problem. So, now essentally I have "lost my job". The same as though I received a "pink slip". Our income has been taken away and I don't know what other site I can list with to receive support and conduct business in a fair manner. I would like to mention also that Ebay does not have an appeal process. Once you are off, they will search your IP service and all other information to track you down and catch you to keep you from finding a way to get back on. I see from other websites that this has happened to many other sellers. But, ebay will still let a new seller on who has no feedback rating or anything to qualify them. Thank you.

I have been buying almost 95% of my graduate books here, and it has been very pleasant so far. Of course one would expect the occasional hiccups like the books are not as described. When that happened, I asked the book seller if the wrong version had been sent (for example, a book that is only of an "acceptable" condition charged for the one I bought at "Very Good"). And I got my money back. Everything was done professionally.

There are so many book sellers and you have a high chance of getting what you want.

Another good thing about this website is you can pre-order the book(s) you need by stating the price you are willing to pay. Once it is available, you will be informed!

I've bought and sold on eBay for more than ten years. If you want to sell something online, it doesn't get any better than eBay. I like to think of it as an online garage sale. The advantage of selling on eBay over having a garage sale is exposure. Instead of having random people from a limited local area looking at what you are trying to sell, you get a nationwide, or worldwide, audience. And your auction listing will also get a targeted audience. For the most part, the people looking at the item you list are people who are interested in exactly what you are trying to sell. They had to search for your auction to find it. With a targeted nationwide audience, that item that you would be lucky to sell for $10 at a garge sale might now find buyers willing to pay many times more. You can make a greater profit when selling on eBay compared to selling through other common venues.

As a buyer, sometimes eBay is the only place you would be able to find stuff. If you're looking for used, vintage, antique, collectable, rare, unique, one-of-a-kind items, eBay is still the best place on the internet to find them. Over the years, eBay has evolved into a marketing tool for sellers offering brand new products, and sometimes you can find good deals on those items too.

I love eBay.

I bought a radio that had been used the owner failed to mention that he had to shave some of it off to make it fit his vehicle so when i questioned the seller he told me he didnt know what i was talking about and when i tried to talk to ebay about it they told me there was nothing that they could do i mean seriously who shaves a radio to make it fit there vehicle so not only did i get ripped off but nothing happened to the guy who sold it to me.

Been selling on ebay since 2007, now a top rated power seller -- able to provide a part time income while working at home. Ebay has great phone support, YOU CAN"T LOSE MONEY or get ripped off -- all you have to do is contact EBAY or PAYPAL and they IMMEDIATELY take your word and refund your money (unless you have bad feedback or something and call all the time LOL). Its friendly, personable, great prices, I am a seller AND a buyer and ALWAYS check ebay first when looking for something!

I think eBay is a tough site to rate because you are not buying from eBay, you are buying from the tens of thousands of buyers - some good - some not so good.

I think the only way you can rate the site is by how they deal with you as a customers if anything goes wrong and how user friendly the site is.

All in all the site is really good for both sellers and buyers buy unfortunately a playground for scammers - both buyers who say items haven't arrived when they more than likely have just to get a freebee or a refund and sellers who sell fake/dodgy items and do a runner with your money.

Like many people I've used eBay to sell unwanted items to raise cash. Nothing major, just a few things here and there that I could get a few bucks for and free up some room in my garage or basement.

I'm really not a huge fan of eBay these days because it seems there is less and less room for small scale guys like me. I'm not a power-seller and I don't want to be. I just want to unload a few things I don't need instead of throwing them away.

Anyway, most of my transactions have been pretty smooth. I sold a large lot of old VHS tapes and a couple smaller lots of books, and a few other random items.

The last item I auctioned off was a Linksys wireless router. I had picked it up on Amazon for $48 when I first bought my laptop so I could be free to roam the house and not be chained down to the desk. I used it for about six months and everything worked perfectly. Then I switched internet providers and I no longer needed the router because FIOS gave me one to use for free.

So rather than have an unused router sitting around collecting dust I figured I'd just pack it up back in the box and sell it. After all it was barely used and looked as good as new. I had the original box and everything else that came with it.

I auctioned it off on eBay but all I got was a lousy $14. The seller sent me $22 (eight bucks for shipping) but after mailing it off and paying paypal and ebay fees all that was left was about $12.

"Oh well," I thought. "I wasn't using it anyway and $12 is better than nothing."

After a few days I received an email from the seller complaining that I ripped her off and sold her a router that didn't work. I wouldn't say she was nasty about it but there was certainly the implication that I knowingly sold her damaged goods.

I responded as nicely as possible that the router was working perfectly when I boxed it up and mailed it and is she sure she's using it right? I suggested reseting the router back to default settings as that might clear up any problems.

She then wrote back that she tried everything and it doesn't work and she wants a refund. She'll mail the router back to me but I need to pay the return shipping.