It’s a monopoly innit 🙁

Isn’t that just for new ebay users though until your feedback reaches a certain rating, or is it a new rule for everyone? (if it is, then it will certainly scupper my frame swap plans 🙁 ). I sold a GPS unit recently and the money was available in my Paypal account straight away.

Dunno, my feedback’s only 50 so I guess it could be.

14% commission for stuff you would end up binning or have sitting in your garage/shed/house doing nothing and cluttering the place up.

Sounds fair enough to me.

Their greed and the uselessness of their customer services are a textbook example of why monopolies are a bad thing.

I’ve been an Ebayer for years. I’ve made a few quid here and there and bought and sold a lot of stuff, my feedback is over 300, 100% positive.

Whan I sold my Yeti and some motorbike parts last year I did notice how high the fees were and since then I’ve stopped selling on there and done all my selling on the STW classifides, including our car.

Now I’ve read that, they can pretty much shove it, TBH.
I’d rather sell on here and give the STW coffers a small boost now and then.
No, you don’t get as much for bike partsd on STW as people drive a hard bargain and know what they want, but TBH it’s less faff, much faster, and you don’t get knobbled with the charges

Oh, I recently changed my email addy from peterpoddy@aol.com to peterpoddy@googlemail.com. Went to do the change on Ebay and was told I can’t have the same email address as my username, despite the fact it already is!!

Ebay isn’t a monopoly. eg, classifieds on here. Classifieds every-bloody-where. QXL existed, Ebay is just better at it.
It’s more like “the people’s choice”. Thats how it got so massive anyway.

I always try and sell bike stuff on here first. None of you wanted it 😉

I was about to put a few thing on there last week and then I read the fees page. Thought it was rather steep, I’d prefer to knock the money off teh asking price than pay 10% for a ‘service’ that’s very hands off…

It’s useless as a seller, totally biased towards the buyer, as you’ve just found!

Why is that a problem? you are a seller and just like any shop you have a responsibility to the buyer, of course you can get chancers trying it on but if youve been honest in your description and packed/posted correctly then you will have no problem defending your sale against a complaint.

I think it’s too expensive now. I just sold a fair bit of bike kit and got stung for £80.00 ebay charges and £35 paypal. I’m just going to put it on there and wait for the email offers to come along, as they always do. Then pull it from the auction and just do a paypal deal. If you have good feedback, people will trust that your not a rip off merchant!

I just got an email from Paypal, after asking them why they’d suspended my account and claimed that it had been accessed by a third party (when I’m pretty sure it hadn’t).

Leaving aside the fact that I’ve had scam emails with better grammar, I can’t say it’s really reassured me very much. Judge for yourselves…

Thank you for contacting PayPal. My name is Jay-R and I will do my best to
make sure that you get all the required help regarding your concern.

I understand that you are enquiring about the email you have received from
us informing you that a third party user had access your account.

Mr. King, I have reviewed your account and I was able to see here that your
account limitation was already lifted last June 23, 2009 and your account
was already returned to its normal standing again.

The reason why your account was flagged to provide information it is
because our system detects that there might be a possible unauthorised
access to your account and to secure your account we have put a limitation.

Possible reason why our system detects that there is an unauthorised access
on your account is there might be a possibility that your account was
accessed using other computer or your account had been accessed on other
location.

Nothing to worry because in PayPal we always make sure that your account is
safe and secured in which this was the reason why a limitation had been
placed on your account.

I hope I was able to help you today. To serve and assist you is my top
priority.

Thank you for contacting PayPal with your concern, please do not hesitate
to email us back for further assistance.

Ebay are moving their business model away from individual sellers to becoming a portal for businesses to sell through. That’s why you are being priced out – they don’t want your business as a seller anymore.