The question is "Who doesnt shop Epay? Sometimes you dont have a choice! I actually like the new rules, ive had theive sellers leave me retalliation feedback when I did nothing wrong! Paybacks a *****! What goes around comes around!
If you or anyone else has a list of good selling sites, PLEASE post them here for everyones benefit. The only one I know so far is WAGGLEPOP which seems like a great place but has little or no traffic yet. It would be great if we could get the old ebay back by going to a different site and getting the traffic going. WHERE ARE PEOPLE GOING? I hope we don't wander in the desert for 40 years like Moses. Thanks
Where once there were hundreds of items in any given category on ebay, now it's fallen in some cases to double digits. I collect racing memorbilia and postage and shipping charges are killing sellers on small ticket items like programs and photos. I've had a few bad apples over the years, but I limit my buying to relatively inexpensive stuff. Seen some friends get stuck on some fairly big ticket hard parts of late. Too bad. eBay was once fun to just browse.
som*****! getting screwed in best match on ebay motors too. well if you search from the motors page you don't get that. they have sure messed up the company. I used to pay those ****ers $175 - $250 a month in fees. stopped selling in January. problem is I didn't stop buying stuff to sell. I have gone back and sell only a few items here and there. my fees are about 30 bucks a month now. ... and no more paypal. I take checks and money orders only. paypal ****s. I sell old car parts. old car part people are the best customers out there... I've sold about 2600 items over a 5 year period and other than a handful of people who do not pay I have no problems. negged about 25 non payers and only got one in return. on a positive ebay note, I just sold $486.00 worth of junk that I paid about 60 bucks for. I buy from people at swap meets who don't have ebay and sell to people on ebay who don't have swap meets.
Ryan, was a couple years ago under a different name. As always, you took care of it asap. The guy is on your bad sellers list, and was banned. You da man.
Guys, I have one questions on this, see if anyone knows how to do it, but is there a way to exclude a seller in a search permanently? Similar to the buddy,ignore list on a forum? I'd like to clean up my searches that give me seller all kinds of misc doo-dads. Just checking, I've Ebayed since about '99. I'm still figuring out things, half of it is flea market, the other half is like bing at the Pomona Swap.
Abe, you mean like the plate topper guy and the car cover dude that pops up in every search I do? I think I might buy one of those cat plate toppers so I can go to his house and cram it up his ***. That **** annoys the hell out of me. That is what Ebay wants you to see. The guy slinging real parts is what they want to hide. Let me know if you find out!
I do a lot of business on eBay, both buying and selling. I've also bought and sold quite a bit of stuff on the HAMB and have been grateful for the chance to do that, especially since there aren't any fees here. I will say if it weren't for eBay sellers with old car parts constantly for sale, I would not have ever been able to complete many of the car projects I have. The odds of finding something I need at a swap meet or junkyard are tiny compared to finding stuff on eBay. eBay has also made me a ton of money over the last 5 years or so, being a big chunk of my income. But I have to agree with what many are saying about the new management. This guy wants to make eBay into Amazon.com, which is stupid. Who is going to go on eBay to look for **** they can buy at Walmart or on 10,000 other websites? People go to eBay to look for interesting old ****. Would you go to your local swap meet if all the guys selling old junk were gone and it was just guys selling models, sungl***es and Chinese tools? The guys at Hershey selling key chains only make sales because the shoppers came to look at old rusty stuff and decided they wanted a keychain. They didn't come there for that ****. And eBay is the same situation, they need the small sellers selling interesting old ****. Without us, no one is going to come.
As far as I know, the only way to do that is to exclude a key word in all of his auctions. Like, let's say I want to search for '57 Chevy ****, but I don't want to look at car covers, I would make my search like this (57,1957)+(chevy,Chevrolet,Belair)-(car cover) I don't think you can exclude a seller completely from searches. If there is a way, I'd LOVE to hear it, it'd be so useful.
I too have been an eBay seller coming up on 10 years. I just got boned the other day by this ******** star system - a guy gave me 4 stars instead of 5 on an item I ate about $2 on the cost of shipping on, he "felt it was reasonable but not extrememely reasonable" .... they tell the buyers one thing and the sellers another. Gee thanks, how about I tell the CEO I won't kick him in the nuts, while I put on some cleats? Not only must I suffer Best Match and beta testing of horrible new page layouts, but now when I search for something specific and there are no results, it omits words from my search so it can give me a page of results. Hello? Dumb***es? I know what I want, I know how to look for it, I'm not going to buy something I don't want just because you waved it at me... I'm not a bull looking for a red flag... although I'd like to hang a red flag on the seat of Donahoe's pants. But it's the 800-lb gorilla in the room, there's not much choice, places like OnlineAuction.com, ePier.com, or... whats the one with the moon in the name? I forget, but you can get a list of other sites at powersellersunite.com, anyways, none of the small ones can come close to comparing for hits and traffic - and that's what equals buyers. And a lot of eBay sellers have been forced to become savvy enough to just put up their own website and tell 'em all to go to hell. People just use Google to find what they want and find you that way I guess. The HAMB is pretty good for free, but sometimes you get what you pay for - the audience is a lot narrower of focus than eBay is. I don't think it's any different than if you tried another auction site, really, except this site is all car guys and other sites will get more general buyers. I have a Model A truck up now stalled out at $610, well below reserve. I only want a couple grand for it, and it's well worth it, a guy had just a cab on here in about the same shape and wanted $1600 for it a while back, this is a complete truck except bed and I'm willing to deal and swap things around on it. Plus it's about the cheapest one you can buy on there, I looked through other auctions to get an idea what it should sell for realistically and priced it accordingly. Just not getting real bidders, I can't understand guys who bid back and forth 6 times on something miles away from the reserve price - a bidding war over something you won't win is kind of like ************ to the ******* centerfold instead of actually screwing the girl in the picture. Plus the unending parade of idiots offering advice or asking sometimes the dumbest of questions. It's gotten stale. Hopefully I'll learn a thing or two from setting up at the Nationals all weekend, my sales at the swaps has been down about 1/3 all year (although I did better than I thought at the All-Ford show that the last time I went to I damn near lost money on the day - on a show the gas cost was negligible on, it was only 5 miles or so from home). If I didn't have Hot Wheels I could sell for a buck I wouldn't have sold much at all, though, I need a new source for more mint on card not particularly valuable HW cars for 50 cents or so a shot. I may just dump some of this stuff though, I want to get rid of some of the **** I have stockpiled away.
Ten years ago I started with a 1937 Harley rear fender, thanks to eBay I now have a completer roller in primer. Yes, I bought most parts one at a time, but I never would have found them in a lifetime of flea market travels. As an eBay seller the new Shipping Wizard feature ****S BIG TIME! eBay somehow desides what the shipping will cost and posts it in the auction. One item I had last month had a posted shipping cost of $140.00. That chased away all but one guy that won at $19.99 and paid the $11.60 DHL fee. NEVER TRUST the printed shipping rate!!!!!!!!!!!! Email the seller your Zip Code and get the rate. HAMB deals are great, but I've found and sold more items on eBay.
Double edge sword some good, some bad, but what are you gonna do if you cant find it anywhere else? I agree, its getting harder to be a seller there and like it. Jon
I don't use Ebay for old stuff but I don't my getting stuff for my PeeZ'O Chit Cruiser from ebay. I bought some factory rims on ebay... cost me 140 for 2, where as if I would have bought from dealership they go for 329 each and junkyard 250 each.
I sell most of my dropped axles on eBay for one reason. Tire kickers, The percentage of real buyers verses talkers / lookers in the world is amazing. On eBay there’s at least a dead line, they have to act. Elsewhere (here) I get strung out for weeks. Conservatively, one out of ten people that contact me fallow threw. Some of them even ask for my address so they can send there axle and I never here from them again. I can always tell the jack offs, there phone numbers are blocked. A good example (my last action) Dropped 32 heavy Visits..……585 Watching…198 Bidders……1
Been on ebay forever, more as a buyer than a seller. I've probably sold less than $2000 worth of stuff in 10 years. I use it to buy stuff I can't find EASILY through other channels. I've bought some stuff from forum sales sites like the HAMB and have never had a problem. I've been screwed many times by sellers on ebay. This point is typified by an auction I've been watching for a bit for a HD front fender. My wife wants a new set of metal and paint job so I'm buying parts. This guy had a front fender and lots of pictures and a very tiny description. Never did he say that the fender had been hit. One had to study the pictures CAREFULLY to see the crease on the fender and the push outs on the side where it had bent. People complain about Paypal but I think it's one of the best things that's ever come about for online buying. Yes, I pay a fee, but it's cheaper than me leaving work, driving to the post office to buy a money order. And swap meets...give me a break. Everything at swap meets is trimmed or manufactured of 18 carat gold. Went to Pate with a long list of needs and left with a rolling work table, not on the list, because of outrageous pricing. As much as we hate it, ebay is it for finding stuff quickly and reasonably priced.
I've bought and sold on Ebay and never had any problems. Have got some real bargains in the past but it has changed a lot lately. The prices are a lot higher now for parts that are inferior. I still use Ebay to find stuff that I know I wouldn't find at a swapmeet. I wouldn't of got as far on my projects with out Ebay.
eBay is a great resource. I've found things on there I couldn't find elsewhere. Rely on sellers Feedback Ratings. I've only been srewed once and that was on a $6 item.
Just a little heads up on buying or selling anywhere on the net.. I got a call the other night from my credit card company asking if i made a 40 some dollar payment to yahoo wallet and a 144 and some change to auto trader online i think they said it was.. Nope not me... They closed my account with a lost or stolen card deal and im waiting for the new cards today. I had to pay 16 bucks extra for 2 day mailing cause the wife needs a card when she heads to VA next week... Anyway the hamb is good ebay is good but watch your cards close.. I kinda think every so often you should report your card stolen and start with a new account number... Close the old one and start over.. Dave
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