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Leon (pawdee98) posted an update Friday, Mar 28, 2014, 9:41am EDT, 10 years, 1 month ago
Hi lil, and everyone, just popping in, looks like we may as well all give up ebay, sales are few and far between, and now they are changing the feedback system to give themselves more freedom to manipulate seller's standing, in order to eliminate any discounts seller has earned. Also they are pressuring sellers to give longer return periods, like it's gonna take a buyer 30 or 60 days to decide if they really want this item they purchased. That's how they increased it from 3 to 4 to 7 to 10 and 14 days, first they suggest, then pressure, and finally make it mandatory. I had an appointment for a representative to call me and explain why my good reputation on ebay was in danger because I had a couple of neutrals, one because a watch band was not imitation leather like I described, and another because an insured pot was broken in transit and was returned as "not as described" so I had to pay postage for return. The rep called and after bragging on me for a while she suggested I lower my prices, offer 30 day returns, get a store, and save even more than I'm saving already :). Well I had to explain to her that I've already been down that road, had a store and did quite well, until they blocked all store items from search returns (I never did figure out what their reasoning was on that except the store did have cheaper listing fees) We figured at the time they were going to do away with stores. But not so now, apparently they would rather you have a store over running free auctions and fixed price listings:). Anyway when I gaze into my crystal ball , I see the colors fading in ebay's logo, and a not so bright future 🙂 my 2 cents worth, Leon ,
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