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Reply #15 - 02.06.08 at 02:13:30
 
I've been ebaying for almost 10 years... here's my experiences...

American Sellers - Generally decent, for some reason Texans in particular don't like shipping out of the US though.  Slightly high shipping charges.
UK Sellers - Decent too.  Shipping can be steep due to the difference in currency.
German Sellers - Don't usually take Paypal and prefer Bank Transfers and Money Orders.

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Reply #16 - 14.01.10 at 22:23:15
 
Sorry for reviving such an old thread, but I recently went back to selling stuff on ebay after a 3 or 4 year hiatus and I'm about to say the heck with it.  Here's why:

1) Ebay fees are a complete rip-off - They take their cut twice from me (closing fees + paypal).  End up being about 10% of the total cost.

2) Ebay has simplified the shipping calculator and the seller can no longer have it compute the insurance cost  -  From reading the ebay boards, it sounds like the seller is now solely responsible for insurance no matter what.  OK, so what I have to do is over-estimate weight and hope that offsets the extra expense.   Oh, and paypal takes a cut of the shipping fees so I get hit twice on shipping too.

3) Buyers harass you about ending your auction early for way less than what the item is worth -  I low-ball the starting amount, but also include a reasonable buy-it-now price.  They always want me to make the starting price the BIN price.  I counter offer with maybe 10 - 20% off the BIN.  They then get ticked off at me because I didn't give in to their low-ball offer.

4) Criticism of shipping rates - I'm getting slammed with this right now with my current round of auctions.  Buyers want me to cram a full ATX motherboard box into a flat rate USPS box.  Not going to happen because I always double box my items with ample space to allow for post man crushing of the box (don't even get me started with UPS, they use table saw blades to drive boxes through their sorting machines).

Unfortunately, I'm stuck with using them for now just because I don't have time to wait around for folks to buy stuff from me using the Amazon marketplace.  Oh well, at least it felt good ranting a little.
 
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Reply #17 - 14.01.10 at 22:28:02
 
I'm just about at the end of my rope with Ebay, good thing too.
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Reply #18 - 14.01.10 at 22:53:03
 
Fees, fees and more fees.  Buying or selling, there are more and more fees.  Now I see that when you pay somebody that is not in the same country as you are, there is an extra fee now to send the money to the seller.  There is a choice to have the seller pay that fee to, but as a seller I know that there are enough fees to pay as it is.

There needs to be some real competition to ebay.  Yahoo auctions went by the way side years ago, and Craigslist and Kijiji are both owned by ebay.  What a joke.
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Reply #19 - 15.01.10 at 01:25:57
 
So, my little experience here.

I am on ebay from 2002. I bought and sold a lot of stuff (I definitively prefer to buy), but not so much as you. I bought from Italy, Germany, UK, France, Switzerland, Beglium, Denmark, Spain, Holland and some other european countries. Also from USA, Canada, China and Australia.

Germans - Are good people. Usually they do not like talk about facts but like to do facts, and I prefer like that. Extremely patients. Often they are very helpful and kindly persons, more than others.

French - Generally are decents, but sometimes superficial...It may depends

English - Are good people too. Efficients and honest persons. Very quick. Sometimes you find someone is bored and not so cooperative as you would expected.

Canadians - Good and friendly, nothig wrong with them

Australians - Very good people. It seems they like communicate with buyers. Cooperative and kindly too.

Americans - Well, very similar to whatever good sellers you could find. Very patiens. But, I agree with paul when he said they tend to ignore anyone who lives outside the USA when asked about shipping. I found someone was very sweet!

Italians - Hahahaha...well, what I can say...They are perfectly able to be the best seller on ebay. Very cooperative, like to do a lot of bla bla bla ( Roll Eyes). Kindly, friendly, they can work hard in order to make you happy. But they perfectly can be the WORST on ebay. They are able to invent the worst bullshit to persuade you they are right ( Roll Eyes). I was frauded from italian ebayers one or two times... Someone say: Italians do it better...well, it is true, but it depends for whom is better Lips Sealed

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