@a45heaven wrote:
From years, and more so recent, ebay activity is all about control of members, so long as ebay pockets more, for a diminished service.
Would you recommend the platform to a friend (Buying or Selling) ?
Part of the problem is that people have fallen for the b/s about being "Members" of a "Community" rather than customers of a business and seem to think that e-Bay is some sort of charity or not for profit organisation when in fact it exists solely to make money for its shareholders.
Ultimately all businesses have a take it or leave it attitude: if I go to a shop I can only buy what they choose to sell as prices they set at times they choose to open.
I would, and have, unreservedly recommended e-Bay as a site to buy from and would recommend it to sell on, with some reservations. They'd be to find out how it works first, stick to the Rules and don't sell anything you'd be too upset to loose. Those reservations would apply to any site.
Private Sellers are supposed to be people selling off unwanted personal items and getting more than they would if they gave them to a charity shop, assuming they'd even want it, or putting them in the 'bin.
Certainly had I got something of significant value that I wished to liquidate I'd sell it to a local dealer or put it through a normal auction — try looking at the latter's fees and then tell me e-Bay is expensive. I may get less than I would on e-Bay but I'd know I'd got it. There's no way 'round a Buyer claiming they've received an empty box and no way a Seller can prove they haven't. Unless a courier firm starts a service than includes inspection at each end of a package's journey, and doesn't charge a prohibitive price for it, there won't be.
Cacas vendit.
