eBayReviews 3,492

After 15 months on ebay i would say i've had all good experiences as a seller and as a buyer. When buying I check Seller Reviews and if something sounds hinky I'd rather pay more than get jerked around. My seller experience is okay except US P. O. took too long once and buyer complained to ebay furst, not to me. I monitored it and it finally arrived late and he was disappointed but sometimes mail does get delayed or take a long time if someone in rural area or gets stolen in high density residential area. And I am not responsible for porch thieves!

With eBay as a seller you know the rules and you can always feel protected say when a buyer says they did not receive their item even though tracking shows as delivered. CHa Ching. EBay works with tracking. If it shows delivered case closed. EBay used to work very very very well back in 2013 but then they had some security breach and the sales stopped very suddenly. Then they did a site wide delete of all products without a UPC code and you had to go through one by one to edit each ad! What a headache and just recently did the same thing for external links. Now I know I did not place a lot of those links in our listings, but still they push that on sellers to have to do that one by one. What a headache! They should pay us!
Four times a years they offer free $$ of shipping supplies with ebay logo. They offer a lot of ways to try to generate sales like eBucks, Percentage off. They work hard to try to help the seller save some money but they also take so much and I sometimes feel we pay too much in fee's but when we do our taxes I see we do make an income. There are scams on ebay but not as much as Amazon. There is a lot to say as we have been on ebay a long time. I like eBay but sometimes we hate eBay and I am tired of feedbacks staying on an account for one year! Seems so excessive. Okay three months. And when you try so hard to be right and still get an idiot to leave you a neg. But then I place them in a bad buyers list so everyone can know he or she was an idiot.

I have been a member on eBay for a long time and when it comes to purchasing certain items, they can't be beat. Until recently. My words of advice with eBay. If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
My account has been hacked and several times I purchased something only to be notified a day or two later that the item I purchased and paid for was from a "compromised" account. I was informed that the burden was not on eBay but on ME to notify my payment of choice and dispute the charge. Simple, just like that. WTF? I will purchase only on eBay when I have to. I NEVER have that happen or fear of it happening on any other site. They need to FIX whatever it is that's causing this to happen.

I have been a seller on ebay for about 15 years and I use to sell quite a bit. I have found that my items are not selling like they used to. I started doing a search on my own items and many of them DO NOT COME UP ANYMORE... I called ebay and they told me to make new listings on each item and I did, and they still do not come up... I used to be able to search an item easily as long as each search word was in the title in any order. Most of the ebay representatives can't answer questions like this and everywhere they transfer me it is the same... It is now feeling like ebay is a thing of the past... My sales have gone down to a 10th of what they used to be... Very sad...

Ebay with the fabulous creation of the ebay money garantee policy completely and arbitrary displaces the protection towards sellers. This policy allows abusive buyers that receive items in pristine condition and then claim that they received them in defective condition therefore ebay favors buyers due to its non-competent policy. Fees are extremely high 10% and paypal also establishes its fees plus shipping cost. Terrible plataform has become lately. Ebay will lose new small bussiness over time.

My bank account changed. I removed that bank account from my ebay and paypal account. I called ebay to verify that the funds from any subsequent returns (because there are always products that never arrive) would be returned to my paypal account rather than my bank. "That's right, sir", Shandy said, "All your money will be returned to your paypal account because there id no banking information on your account." I said, "Even though the original method of payment was my bank card?" "Yes, sir.", she said. Guess where the refund money went?
Ebay: why does EvERY little thing with you become a drama? Are you just incapable at EVERYTHING? I do apologize, you're the best at the most successful ponzi scheme out there.

I'm an avid Ebayer with over a 950 feedback score. I search for EVERYTHING here before going to Amazon or or Etsy. There is great customer service and although I've had a couple transactions where a seller tried to dupe me into accepting a fraudulent item, Ebay was very supportive and I received my money back instantly.

Some of the brands I search include: Banana Republic, J. Crew, Anthropologie, Skinceuticals and Clarisonic. I nearly spend as much time (if not more) on my searches and grooming my watch-list than I do on Facebook!

Highly recommended!

EBay fails to recognize the rights of sellers.
I have been a buyer and seller for the past 12 years.
What was originally a great place to buy and sell as turned into a place to get taken advantage of.
There are many unscrupulous buyers out there (not everyone, but MANY) who overbid an honest bidder, then refuse to pay. Of course eBay does nothing to these lowlife bidders. Then others demand refunds for clearly advertised used items because the item was not pristine. They expect to get a $200 item for $12 and expect. It be be brand new.
Oh, but of course "the customer is always right", so the seller has to pick up the cost of shipping both ways and other expenses.
I now use Amazon, Etsy, eBid, Craigslist and Letgo. These all protect the SELLERS rights.
Try them out when you get screwed by selling on EBay. It's only a matter of time...