Ebay arbitrarily decides each month how many 5%, 15%, and 20% discounts they want to hand out. Ebay then fudges each seller’s DSRs to go with the number of discounts they want to hand out.

Basically it’s a giant scam.

we even managed to get a couple ex ebay employees the things we have learned from them is just starting to be put to use… so we started a FREE site eiStuff.com

we were fine with ebay until we as sellers got the slap in the face, i only had 12 negs, out of 100k feedback… pooey

Alex

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Quit spamming my shit, fucker.
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I only have about 80 buys over a period of 5 years.

Sellers that withhold feedback until the buyer has given them positive feedback can go eat a pile of shit. It’s buyers flooding eBay with complaints about that practice that has prompted them to change their policy.

Their feedback policy never has been any good. With the changes made it still sucks.

Instead of crying about it to each other, figure out a perfect feedback system and start an auction site. That’s how free enterprise works. Build your better mousetrap and if it’s really better the market may move to you.

To dickhead Tom and his class action suit… hey buddy, you’re playing on somebody else’s sandlot. It’s their ballgame. They have a vested interest in uncovering dishonest sellers. Buyers that get screwed are less likely to use eBay as much as they would if it were a service that could be trusted.

What I read here is jerkoffs who want an unbridled license to make money selling their crap but begrudge eBay their right to charge whatever they want to provide the market for them to be able to make their living selling on eBay.

Personally, I think eBay sucks shit. But they promulgate rules to try to keep the playground fair to dumbass buyers and weed out criminal sellers. As it is they are the biggest fence for stolen stuff there ever was. But a good fence is not going to sell a zircon for a diamond to that dumbass buyer. It’s bad for business. If people begin to see eBay as a den of thieves they will spend their money somewhere else and then eBay won’t get their percentage. If you’re an honest seller you have little to worry about.

Here’s a concrete example of a shady “power seller”. User id is dennis6z7a. I was thinking about buying from him. I looked at his feedback. One negative in the last month. I looked at it. Here’s what it was about.

dennis6z7a put a 2Gb compact flash card for sale in the following manner: “RCA Lyra x2400 CF Media 2 gig compact Flash Card 2 gb” The picture illustrating the sale was of an RCA Lyra – a very nice color photo.

So what was dennis6z7a selling. It sure wasn’t an RCA Lyra like the one in the picture he displayed. He was only selling a 2 gb compact flash card.

Here’s his smart ass reply to his negative feedback “You do know how to read Right? AD STATES IN LARGE PRINT:AUCTION FOR CF CARD ONLY”

Price of this 2gb cf card? $179.99!
(link to page at bottom)

WTF business has dennis6z7a got putting a picture of an RCA Lyra in place of what he’s actually selling unless his motive is to deceive?

That’s the company you keep as Power Sellers. That’s the kind of seller that should have the fees raised so high they have to find someplace else to run their scams.

What I’m hearing here is mostly a bunch of sniveling greedy assholes who just want to sell, sell, sell and have no thought for their responsibility as a seller to the buyer. Yes asshole, a buyer does have a responsibility to not misrepresent the product he sells.

The fact is most of the buyers and sellers on eBay are honest. When eBay first started it was meant for buyers and sellers to come together on an internet auction. Then some people decided to make their living buying wholesale and putting the items up for auction on eBay. Beats working for a living, huh?

It pisses me off that some of these assholes withhold feedback on a buyer so they can retaliate if a buyer gives an honest negative appraisal of the job they did. It’s happened to me a number of times and I felt like an asshole because somebody else was going to get screwed from the seller because I didn’t want a negative on my account in retaliation for my being honest.

If you assholes have a bitch, bitch at your dickhead power seller buddies like dennis6z7a who engage in shady selling practices and then threaten you with negative feedback if you disclose their unethical business practices.

eBay’s rating system has always sucked and probably always will suck. What will solve the problem is someone coming up with a better system. If eBay was really good I don’t think Craigs List would have done so well. So there is a place for a better system.

I’ve always suspected that perhaps eBay lets power sellers get away with shady practices simply because they do make more money off them than the little guy.

That’s my rant for today and you’ll never get your chance to reply because I’ll never be back here. I got here by accident and doubt that I’ll have that accident again.

Link to $179.99 2Gb CF card: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120291702904