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eBay Reviews Summary

The company, primarily operating as an online marketplace, faces significant challenges in customer satisfaction and service reliability. While some users appreciate the variety of products available, a prevalent sentiment highlights frustrations with fraudulent sellers, inadequate buyer protection, and a lack of effective customer support. Many customers report difficulties in obtaining refunds and dealing with negative feedback, indicating a biased resolution process favoring buyers. Additionally, ongoing technical issues with the platform further exacerbate user dissatisfaction. Overall, the company's reputation suffers due to these recurring complaints, suggesting a need for improved seller protection and customer service responsiveness.

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service
888
value
809
shipping
756
returns
724
quality
760

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Washington
4 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Found lots of great stuff on eBay. Great prices for normally expensive items! Real people and the site supports good customer service and has guarantees if anything goes wrong. You get your money back if anything goes wrong with the transaction or you didn't receive the item or item is damaged or not as described. Safe secure payment and you also can have items shipped to your door or pick them up locally if in your area. Overall great safe place for shopping!

Date of experience: August 2, 2018
Georgia
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Ebay makes it so easy to find EVERYTHING you are wanting to purchase. I love how you can search different sellers for the best prices!

Date of experience: August 2, 2018
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I sold a stihl chainsaw, can not get the money eaven after the buyer recieved the item. I takes too long to recieve your money because they put a hold on it. Can take up to 27 days to recieve the funds. You would be crazy to consider ebay.

Date of experience: July 30, 2018
Gina R.
Texas
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Going downhill
July 28, 2018

I've spent so much money over the years. There are good sellers there, but there are a lot of lousy scam artists. When Ebay and Paypal allowed a seller to scam me by selling fake hair extensions listed as human hair, that was the end for me. I eventually had to file a charge back with my credit card company and it was a hassle, but I did get my money back. It's not the Ebay it once was.

Date of experience: July 27, 2018
Pennsylvania
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Sold a coach backpack. Customer has had merchandise since Monday. Today is Friday, my money is still on hold. I call, long wait periods to talk to a foreign person. They say call pay pal, pay pal says call EBay. I told both of the agencies basically you are stealing my money. The customer has the merchandise but I still havent been paid! Needed this money now I have to wait til they release it! What a joke! If you need ur money dont sell with EBay! Unsatisfactory all the way around!

Date of experience: July 27, 2018
Minnesota
5 reviews
35 helpful votes
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Been a member since the beginning way before Paypal. Ebay has slowly become useless in the bidding industry, they allow sellers to hold your review hostage until you give them one first even if you have paid and completed the task. I have been ripped off so many times and Ebay still nearly 20 years later sucks at helping and preventing scams. It should be an automatic account closure or investigation when a seller is at 95%.

Date of experience: July 22, 2018
Massachusetts
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Purchased item that was advertised as perfect condition and rarely used. Busy at work so I didn't even unbox the unit for 7 days. Looked good. Turned out after a little use I found out the unit was defective but only just after the 30 day return. Contacted seller. Was subtly threatened. Called Ebay who ruled against me AND said I couldn't do anything about it. Couldn't speak with supervisor. Nothing. So here I am with a defective unit that cost me $200. Buyer Beware!

Date of experience: July 22, 2018
Spain
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Have had my first experience with Ebay Customer Service today; I've been using ebay to buy and sell for over 10 years now. But last week, when placing a order that contained multiple itemes, in different quantities, ebay have locked my account on account that the computer I was using was not recocnized by them; I've called Customer Suport, unlocked it, placed the order; A few days after I've found my order to be doubled ( Every item, in the same quantities, from the same vendors; just as if you would hit the pay button, but instead of your itemes be taken from your shoping basket and the transaction to be confirmed, nothing happens, so you hit the Buy button again, but now the system registers both Buy button actions so it doubles you order). Anyway, after talking to a poor english Rep, I get a Manager ( wow, this is good, surely they should understand my problem); NOPE... the Manager gave me 2 options: Try to get in touch with the selller and ask them to cancel your order, arrange for returns and wait for reffund, or sell the extrta itemes yourself ( we will get the sell fees double, not too bad for us!); They simply refused to accept any responsiblity ( a double order has never happened on Ebay, so it is not possible, she said!)

My advice: Stay away from ebay, plenty of other options out there with less fees for seller anyway: Wish, Facebook market, OLX,

Date of experience: July 21, 2018
GB
1 review
6 helpful votes
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With extortionate fess with both ebay/ Paypal service and a borderline ridiculous bias towards buyers rather than sellers. After using this website for many years I have decided to discontinue using ebay indefinitely. I hope many others do the same.

Date of experience: July 21, 2018
Illinois
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Ebay consumer
July 19, 2018

One star still too much for eBay, for how they treating the customers badly, in their collusion with these fraudulent sellers, by doing this they are losing everything, they dont know how to take care about their buyers, they should see to their competitors in the market how successful they are.

Date of experience: July 19, 2018
Washington
6 reviews
13 helpful votes
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Good old Ebay
July 19, 2018

I always managed to find just about everything oddball I need on Ebay from a razor charger to a fridge water filter all the way to clothing of course. Pretty decent prices too.

Date of experience: July 18, 2018
Arizona
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ebay
July 18, 2018

Tried it for the first time. Never again. Sticking with Amazon. Bought an item only to find out that the item was conveniently from a compromised account. Now i have to go through the dumb process of trying to get the money back. Crap site. Crap business.

Date of experience: July 18, 2018
Ohio
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Absolutely zero protection for sellers. They pull funds from my account regardless and lie about returning listing fees after they force me to accept a return. Items get returned damaged. No help. AVOID ebay

Date of experience: July 16, 2018
North Carolina
3 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Ebay and Paypal are scammers!
July 16, 2018
Updated review

Don't fall prey to Ebay and Paypal! If perhaps you can't get your money back. You have a legal right to call your bank or card company and file a dispute you will get a temporary credit while the fraud division investigates... Make sure you copy and paste or screen shot all information from the transaction to provide in your defense... 100% fool proof

Date of experience: July 16, 2018

Not for sellers any more!
July 5, 2018
Previous review

E bay use to be the best place to sell; not anymore. Their fees are too high.and. Buyers have all of the rights...

Date of experience: July 5, 2018
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Disgusting
July 15, 2018

Absolutely disgusting.
Sellers havent got a leg to stand on even when theyre in the right.
Sold an item with an accurate description but because the buyer decided she didnt like the item, I had to pay for return postage, even though in their policies it states when an item is incorrectly described the seller has to pay for return postage. I told the seller to just keep the item as Id rather not pay an extra £3 for an item I wouldnt not even receive back anyway because my old address from 2 years ago were on it, even though I changed it on my eBay account when I moved! But she sent the item back anyway, so Im out of pocket with my item, my money and postage just because the buyer decided it wasnt her style.
When seeking help from eBay I was told to just go out and collect it from an eBay advisor without any concern that this may not actually be even possible?
Disgusting and inconciderate. All they seem to say is apologies this much be a discouraging experience so patronising and they couldnt give a flying pig.
Ive been an eBay member daily for over 7 years and never have I been treated the way I have been treated by a company before.
I will be sending a complaint for what its worth and will be deleting my account.
AVOID. THERE ARE MUCH BETTER SELLING SITES OUT THERE WITH BETTER CUSTOMER SERVICE

Date of experience: July 15, 2018
North Carolina
1 review
5 helpful votes
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EBay is a scam!
July 15, 2018

This is my first and LAST time buying from eBay! I have done everything I was told to do in order to get back my refund of an item that came from China that looked nothing like the picture! Worst experience ever. Not only I have lost $100 on a garbage product/shipping but I also have lost money sending it back through PayPal where their seller gave me a $50 credit for return shipping but placed it on hold! All because the package is showing in transit for a few weeks and the seller is yet to declare received so they denied my case for refund and closed it! Thank you for nothing all they did was take my money! Never again!

Date of experience: July 14, 2018
Oregon
11 reviews
33 helpful votes
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Ebay Scammers
July 14, 2018

I used to love shopping on Ebay. They do have better prices than Amazon, it's what you have to deal with to get those extra savings that have finally ended my shopping with them. I do bid on items now and then, as I did the other night. I won the item, and was very excited that I got such a good bargain. Ebay emails me and says "for my protection" they had to cancel this order. Seller no longer sells on Ebay. I called CS and get told the same. Asked if they could reimburse me somehow for my trouble, they say "no" However the same thing happened the next night, different buyer account and different seller. Same sort of item. They blame it on sellers, but the sellers are most likely Ebay. They just make as look as though it's someone else who is selling the merchandise. If you ever read their "policies" they have rules for buyer beware. They have answers for exact questions I want to know. It must happen all the time. Then they state that if you write them reviews they can say its harassment and ban you from their site.
I am pretty sure they are the scammers. This is not the first time something fishy has happened while shopping on their site. I would suggest you be careful when purchasing from these shysters. You just never know what new policy they'll hit you with. I wish they would ban me.

Date of experience: July 13, 2018
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Selling items on ebay is a ridiculously stressful endeavor. Hidden fees and difficult listing process. The people who buy things are so hard to deal with and so incredibly picky as though they are buying from some high end boutique. I am selling a USED product, duuuuuuh..

Date of experience: July 13, 2018
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I have done this and upon reaching at the post office they said weight is not correct and I have to purchase another label and I will get refund upon voiding the shipping label online which they rejected. I ended up paying for double shipping.

Date of experience: July 7, 2018
Virginia
34 reviews
151 helpful votes
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As soon I sign up for ebay to sell account, they suspend accounts for no reason. Thanks for nothing, glad I didn't waste time. Glad I took my business elsewhere.

Date of experience: July 6, 2018