24 Years and This is No Longer Viable

[mos13_2000]

Just a rant here. 24 years selling on ebay and 2024 has made me ready to pack it in.

Fees - crippling. Unless I find it on the floor, buying and selling is now impossible to make any sort of profit. Ebay and couriers make more per sale than me. 

Buyers - 100% feedback on 1200 sales but in the last 20 sales, nothing but issues. A buyer who was 100% trying her luck to claim an item was undelivered (I won but ebay took no action), a buyer with an inability to convers with any manners (this could be a society issue 🤣), 2 buyers who changed their minds after asking questions AFTER the auctions ended... but don't forget, ebay removed the ability to leave them anything but positive feedback years ago. They thrive, we die.

Facebook market place - as much as FB is full of time wasters and muppets, the ability to sell cash in hand means I can charge so much less and keep my money. Ebay response to this threat? Increase fees.

Pay to win - anyone else notice how many things don't exist when you search on eBay? Search through Google and so many more things appear. Is this about promoting items? 

Long term user, first time community poster. Rant not over just TBC.

Thanks for listening 🤣

[tressygirl]

I believe Royal Mail home collections and RM can bring the label,  is still possible under SD.

@rolphybassman 

[valvesgloriousvalves]

Unfortunately I have come to the same conclusion.  This last month has been particularly dire.  I find I'm having to pay more for stock and buyers want stuff really cheap.  This, coupled with the Simple Delivery debacle, has persuaded me to sell all my inventory cheap and call it a day.  

[sml192]

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@valvesgloriousvalves wrote:

Unfortunately I have come to the same conclusion.  This last month has been particularly dire.  I find I'm having to pay more for stock and buyers want stuff really cheap.  This, coupled with the Simple Delivery debacle, has persuaded me to sell all my inventory cheap and call it a day.  

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If you are paying for stock then that surely means that you are a business.  Business sellers are not currently required to use Simple Delivery. 

[rhadliegh2012]

I am not a business and never have been and I have never purchased stock.
I just sell unwanted items

I also am a hoarder of clothes sometimes expecting to lose vast amounts of weight and then dont and end up with clothing far too small and then when they go out of fashion. I use ebay to flog them and usually get a fraction of what they cost me.

I basically lose money all the time on ebay
However the character of buyers has change the profile of buyers has changed and you no longer have people who see a great bargain and buy at a reasonable expectant price.... You have the scum of the planet wanting to rip off sellers and steal and 99 pence is stealing when you end up as I did paying 18 pence in every 99p in commissions to ebay or pay pal and then your left with 81 pence for a perfect garment that cost you £29.99 and then you drive to the post office, you queue for 20 minutes with others returning junk to Amazon usually and you pay 50 pence for parking and then there is your fuel and then you realise that the 81 pence your going to have to wait weeks to be in your bank cost you an hour of your time 50 pence in parking 25pence in packing and £1.90 in fuel and so for your 90 minutes of driving, parking wrapping the parcel, time buying packaging and celllotape and queuing your profit is MINUS £1.74 so its cost you £1.74 for 90 minutes of your time and that is without wear and tear on your car and someone else ends up with a nice new dress worth £29.99

EBAY IS FOR PARASITES, robbers and scum.
Its no longer where I visit
THANK GOD.