"I think the concept of eBay is perfect. To create a place for people to sell items which are not of use, to people who have a use, is genius. eBay is getting into trouble trying to become the store front site for the world and is letting that goal ruin the site for average people who buy and sell used stuff. Overall the service is solid and the community is respectful of each other. "
"I have sold on eBay and I've been a buyer for many years. Today, I find eBay better than its ever been for buyers. Until 2011, ebay was best avoided by the average shopper. It was a buyer beware market under former CEO Meg Ryan. Her replacement has worked hard to run off the bad sellers and his addition of the "Top Rated Seller" category has made eBay possibly the best marketplace of its kind for BUYERS. For instance, its extremely risky to buy items from Mainland China sellers off their sites and its risky to buy from them off Walmart, Yahoo, Amazon.
At eBay, if a China located seller maintains "Top Rated Seller" status, its probably safe to buy from them. By safe, I do not mean you are guaranteed product quality, I mean honest transaction & reasonable shipping time. Not even Sears in its heyday could guarantee product quality for all it sold. No retailer today can do so. Buyers still must do their product homework.
As for the complaints here from sellers. Sellers claiming eBay is no longer a good place for sellers go back at least 15 years. When I was selling and making good profits, failed sellers were moaning on eBay boards. Most people who try their hand at selling fail. If your downtown had a place for sellers to rant, you would hear how downtown isn't the marketplace it was, a seller cannot make a profit.
eBay is no different than brick & morter business, many sorts of people try their hand at selling and most fail because they proved to be simply not cut out for business. Despite what a particular political party preaches, business requires hard work and special talent and special skills. Much like sports, many dream, many try it and many fail. Often, the bad seller lacks the savy and skills required to succeed in business, so he turns to dishonesty or shabby methods."
"many items can be bought from ebay at a very low cost but please be caution who is the seller . "
"Great Seller A+++ Fast Shipping. Will buy again"
"michaels_bodykits_and_more eBay account was suspended indefinitely due to low buyer satisfaction. The feedback score for this account is 99% positive. That means only 1% of buyers were not satisfied. It is unbelievable that eBay is suspending accounts that have such good feedback. eBay ruins the lives of seller's who depend on the eBay income...seller's who are disabled and unable to go out in the world and pick up a job like normal. It makes me sick how they can do this and be able to sleep at night."
"you can find basically many stuff in ebay but you have to be careful who you buy from . check the seller reputation before proceed."
"this is very good online website for every product"
"Seller sold me open boxed goods that broke after 11 days and would not take it back. Paypal promptly denied my claim for a refund. The buyer's protection they offer is crap. Save yourself some money and buy from reputable merchants.
Ebay/Paypal, you've lost me as a customer forever."
"Ebay constantly raises their final selling fees in order to screw users even more. They also put down a bunch of other fees such as the insertion fee. And of course Ebay owns paypal so they charge people in 2 ways. Ebay is constantly slowly raising prices and everyone is taking it because they are the biggest auction site out their. I sold something and at the end they took 15% all togather from paypal and ebay I could of just took it to an auction house or given it to a friend and they would of sold it for cheaper. Ebay is a scam and should not be trusted everyone should go on other auction sites especially free sites like craigslist so that ebay loses members and so maybe they will realize they must change their greedy practices! Ebay does not need to charge as much as they are to make a large profit or keep their company running they are billionaires their is no need for them to constantly hurt users who are responsible for the money they have!"
"eBay is the most awesome site on the internet. You can buy or sell almost anything. If you pay with paypal and have an issue with an item you bought, they will help you resolve it and if they find in your favor, you will get a full refund."
"Just what I needed. No problems and got a good price."
"I just bought mlb the show from a seller on ebay and it was a stellar buying experience. I have bought several things on their site and have never had a problem. I definitely recommend shopping their."
"Purchased a used set of Insanity Workout DVDs from a seller who had all positive reviews. Unfortunately, the DVDs turned out to be fake. (I ultimately bought directly from Beachbody and compared the two sets.)
Seller was unresponsive to messages, email, phone call. Filed a claim with Ebay. Seller refused to accept a return and escalated the claim. Ebay reviewed the claim and decided in my favor.
Item was shipped back to seller. Ebay automatically refunded my money after verifying delivery confirmation.
Definitely pleased with Ebay. Have had over 250+ positive transactions since 1999. Thank you!"
"Ebay is the largest cheater in the world(to those who want to be a seller):
I just want to open a store on ebay.com, so I open an ebay account, verify my PayPal with credit card(I have a good credit).... then subscribe a store which cost about $15/month, then I start to make pages for listing item and uploading image to another place, costing me several days, then the first one is listed, costing $0.2 lasting for 30days, then I start to list the second.
But they stop me to do that saying the account need to be verified as a foreign seller following a link where you need to upload the ID card image, image of bill statement ....... So why not tell me to do this before I list a item?
ok,fine that's fine I did it.
But after about 3 days, the verification was denied.
They asked me to send the image of the original one" because it’s black and write. COME ON, That's the original one. Are all bill statement written in color? You are stupid. Am I the only person doing this in mainland? Of course not, so why two guys(I emailed two) reply the same stupid reason?
Then they ask me to just upload a image of the front of credit card.
I did it. But days later, they told me the verification is denied.
THAT’S NO OK. THAT’S NOT FINE. THAT’S SCAM.
First, I have a very nice credit, I bet my credit card have nothing wrong. Second, I'm new to ebay, So I don't have negative feedback on ebay. Third,I don't have any bad domestic and foreign reputation.
So GIVE ME THE REASON THAT THE VERIFICATION WAS DENIED.
I invest money and several days, Then it turn out to be nothing. Why don't you ask me to do foreign trade verification before I put money into it? You know these well, you can avoid your customer's lose very easily. But you just let it happen on purpose. Why? because I'm not the only person, that's the point, a lot of $15 will be a lot. They just start to charge before you get the service.
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"NEW RAZOR A S HELLO KITTY KICK SCOOTER SPECIAL EDITION
Excellent skateboard.
The daughter is very happy.
High quality
The seller: ashanh"