My apologies to the good folk of this board, this is really a direct response to btr.style. Do feel free to just move on to the next post!
@btr.style wrote:
"I do feel a bit sorry for those waiting with their popcorn today"
It's you who takes issue over this and has made several sarcastic digs towards those that it really affects. If people have an issue with it (which they do) and you don't agree with it or the way it's being spoken about, just ignore it. Move on and the like. No point having subtle digs at other members because of the way they feel over it.
Oh and the cliche classic in the other post:
"but over the last few days there has been such nastiness, that there are now a lot of business sellers I wouldn't buy from either"
You've been here long enough and would be aware of members like myself for a while. Had you any intention of buying from us, you'd have done so by now.
It's funny that though. I've seen it all before. Some company says something in a tweet some people don't like. Out comes the shouts to boycott, 'I'm never going there again' said Billy (who has never been there anyway). 'i'll vote with my feet' says Jane the lifelong vegetarian about a fried chicken shop they've never been to.
You see, it's very easy for someone to vote with their feet, but actually, in most cases it doesn't mean diddly squat, especially when you've never shopped there before even after being long aware of members like myself. Indicating you probably never would and that's no loss then.
Right, after the way you spoke to me last time, I did vow not to bother to rise to the bait, but I will just clear up a few points before I ignore you completely.
I ran 2 businesses on here for many years. One of them (books) more or less collapsed when the book mega-listers came on the scene, they were and still are selling books for less than it would cost me to post them. So I had to ditch things like novels, more common kids books and switch to lots. The other was knitting patterns - low value but fast turnover. Then the unreg business sellers moved in with their illegal copies. Yes, I moaned on here, tried to get something done about it for many years, but to no avail. Then ebay upped the business seller fee for crafts to an unworkable amount - especially as the whole of the first page of best match for 'vintage knitting patterns' was full of illegal copies by mainly 'private' sellers. So I closed the business and dumped massive amounts of patterns in the recycle bin.
So, yes, I know the effect of unreg business sellers. But whilst I moaned, I was never nasty, I never treated people as if they are stupid because they didn't happn to have the same viewpoint.
On here, sadly, ebay owe you nothing. They do things that are harmful to your business, or don't do things that would considerably improve your business. You just have to make the decision, put up and adapt or move on.
As for which sellers I buy from - I buy very little, but apart from food shopping, most of the stuff I buy, I buy on here. As for:
"You've been here long enough and would be aware of members like myself for a while. Had you any intention of buying from us, you'd have done so by now. "
Why would I have bought from you by now? I haven't really been aware of your for that long - and even if I was aware of you from your posts, I had no idea what you sold. I don't make a point of trying to buy from every seller on the boards/site.
Strangely, the item that I picked at random of yours to use as an example in a previous post (and this was the first time I had looked at your items, as far as I am aware) happened to be an M&S grey hoodie in my size. I liked it, it was a good price and I did nearly hit the buy button. But because you were so rude to me, I thought I would just stick to the seller I normally use for clothes.
Obviously there are sellers that are on my blocked seller saved search that I probably never will buy from anyway - never going to buy dvds, games, ornaments etc etc, but I don't usually look to see what they sell. I just see 'attitude' and add them to the excluded on my saved search.
Also in clipping the quote to just contain the bit about not buying from certain business sellers you purposely left of the bit about me never buying from unreg businesses - something that I haven't knowingly done for years. I think most regular posters on here would agree that I fully back the gripe business sellers have about unreg business sellers. What I do have an issue with is people who are rude and or unpleasant.
