eBayReviews 3,492

I love the variety of products available on eBay. I find myself on the site quiet often just looking at items. Comparing prices, reading item descriptions. I've found that if you check back often you may find some really great deals. You have the option to buy the items now or some you have the option to bid on. Which is one of my favorite features of this site. I won a pair of new plus size jeans for $5.89 plus $10.00 shipping & a new pair of black & white striped Old Navy flip flops for just $4.00 (shipping included). Since sellers are able to set their own prices, you will find some truly ridiculous prices throughout the site. Don't let that throw you, they are plenty of great deals & truly fair price listings there as well.

I've been a Ebay user for years... Ever since they started charging 10% for every item you sold, I gave up on them. I'ts nearly impossible to profit anything with that 10% fee. Not to mention all the other fees that come with it (final shipping fee & Paypal fee). Ebay is a great place to Buy. But not to sale anymore. I'll only sale things i don't need anymore, kind of like a garage sale. But to start a business in buying and selling, I won't be using Ebay.

Worse place to sell, it used to be great back in the early 2000s. Sellers have no rights for the fees we pay. My account is it restricted, with a perfect selling feedback since 1999. Why? My son with the same last name made an honest mistake and got banned for life. Now the reps tell me I have to be watched closest, sort of like a probation period, Also, buyers can lie about the item and say its damaged and you didnt put that in the description, and you have no chance to state your case... keep treating sellers like scum. There are many more sites available now, Etsy, Ruby Lane! Amazon, Poshmark etc... you dont need this greedy company to sell.

It was good 15 years ago. I really enjoyed it. Today, the fees are too high and it seems like I was spending a lot of time opening disputes for non-paying buyers and defective merchandise. People will ask $29.95 for a piece of junk that probably couldn't sell for 99 cents. Then there are the behind the scenes infractions like shell bidding and scams. EBay does offer buyers the opportunity to buy vintage items but beware of the price you will pay! In my opinion, eBay is still the biggest and offers the most stuff, but high fees and frequent scams have kept me away. Sometimes, an open dispute(s) can last for several weeks. To me, eBay's open dispute process is a bit useless especially if there is more than one at a time.

I have almost 900 100% positive reviews as both a seller and buyer which is why I am appalled that Ebay closed my store down. In March I started a home addition and so a lot of my Ebay items were boxed up, but because EBay still takes your fee even if you have your store on vacation mode, I decided to keep it open. In total, from March, I had 4 items that I could not locate because of this and so I had to end the transaction, but all the while maintaining my 100% customer review. At the same time, I was able to sell items successfully although the past few months business has been slow. In the meantime, Ebay has no problem taking my money while I shop frequently. Go figure. I have called EBay twice and one rep said to try back in a couple of years while the second rep said indefinitely. I cannot believe the coldness in which this is being done as I have hundreds of listings, spent countless hours taking photos, researching and writing descriptions for each item, ALL FOR NOTHING. Ironically, I am about to unpack all of my EBay items that were active listings and now I am not allowed to sell them. I will NEVER purchase from Ebay again, They will not get one cent from me.

I purchased outright a wallet from Central_Housemarket (seller). Within 24 hrs I had an amail stating the item has damage and they cant sell it. Meanwhile, he offered 2 other options for a replacement. Bth those oprions can be bought anywhere else online for about half the price, I paid.
I really feel he is flim-flaming the public with this fraudulent activity.

I said No and requested the refund. It has been 2 weeks and many excuses later - no action.

This seller is obviously not an honest one. But even filing a complaint with EBAY brought me no results. I protested the charge.

Will not deal ever again with EBAY, have to say.
O and the item is (once again) being advertised for sale:

Buxton Womens Leather 3 In 1 Thin Credit Card Case Wallet Change Purse Id #*******683

My site won't update the items I have listed. EBay claims that there is a "glitch" with the platform on their side, so my claim is not valid. I have reported this multiple times and they won't address it and the representative I spoke with was really not interested and told me that I have no recourse as it's over 90 days old. There solution was to downgrade my seller rating on the basis of metrics that don't address the issue. Bad customer service for the seller.

I have been on ebay for many years and have not had any problems worth mentioning. For the time being, it is a good site for buying and selling. But as good as their site is, I think it could it could be much better. They just need to stop trying to be like Amazon. If I wanted to buy and sell on Amazon, I would be using Amazon. Ebay has been taken over. They are catering to the big corporations and drop shippers, each of whom sells tens of thousands of items, if not hundreds of thousands. These businesses are ruining ebay because they flood the search pages with thousands of identical duplicate listings that may vary in price by a few pennies, or just a letter or two in the title. It is near impossible to compete as a seller in a market that is saturated with cheaper quality items that always seem to be at the top of the search results, but in a way, that competition makes it a good site to buy on. But check Amazon before buying on ebay, because many of the big sellers and drop shippers are using ebay to list their items and then have them shipped through their Amazon Prime accounts. Of course, in cases like that, the ebay prices will be a few dollars more than Amazon. Maybe they will merge someday. Another thing I feel happening on ebay is that the seller is gradually losing control over how they run their business on ebay. Rules and regulations, and even more rules and regulations. And the fees! If they raise them again anytime soon, I think that the smaller sellers will begin to leave in waves and then ebay would become something like an online Walmart, a truly irrelevant online marketplace. They need to remember where they came from. They need to remember their roots before they are cut down.

Ebay is intolerant and discriminatory toward it's sellers based upon the type of merchandise that they are selling. If you are in the firearms industry, selling accessories for example you are bullied by ebay with periods of suspensions which affect your business. Ebay claims that they are doing this to protect the community, but if fact has no concern for the community by allowing other vendors to sell porn to anyone including a child that happens to have a cell phone and an ebay account. Now, how is selling explicit porn to our children good for the community? Ebay is just another one of those anti American establishments that do not support the constitution and has no regards for the civil rights of those who chose to exercise their constitutional rights. Ebay needs to be exposed for what they really are, intolerant to the right but embracing stupidity and ignorance to the left.

I love to shop. I use to waste gas going from store to store and half of time wasn't finding what I be looking for. So I start shopping at eBay. EBay is a great place to shop for all your needs. EBay be sure that sellers stands by what they sell, and if you don't like what you get eBay be sure you get a refund. I never had any problems with eBay and the products or items I have order from them. I have been very please with everything so far I have order off of eBay.

I'm trying to downsize my house so have been selling items on ebay for the past few months. It has been ok until I decided to sell anything electronic. 1 out of 5 items has a complaint that it doesn't work or gets damaged in shipping. I send most of my stuff in cardboard boxes and use more bubble wrap than some stuff is worth. I test everything (taking pictures and video just in case) and know my stuff works. What I get back is broken junk that wasn't mine to begin with or buyers having a huge fit that I need to send them a replacement or all of their money back WITHOUT them needing to send the item back. All ebay says is "oh well you can block them". It makes me want to cry. I can't believe that ebay allows this. Sellers get really screwed. Then there are the lots I post that get changed to free shipping without my consent. I lost so much time, energy, and money. I've since pulled everything off and am just going to have a yard sale.

Anything I've bought from ebay has been drop shipped from amazon.com or China. What's the point?