Getting a bit fed up with whinging private sellers

[jere-nott]

Why are private sellers whinging about payments? Most of them should be business sellers anyway.

Some of my buyers can take up to two weeks to pay, no problem for me.

In addition I have to pay a listing fee and a final valuation fee of around 17%. One would have to pay this at a local auction house if not more.

Some private sellers are deluded, list an item at a crazy high price which most of us would laugh at. Yeah you don't need luck with that price you would  need a miracle. For example I have seen valueless postage stamp(s) listed at a BIN price of £1500.00!

Describes it as rare stamp and a collectors must have! Just irritates me that these idiots think that buyers are naive.

Private Sellers if you don't like eBay new rules go elsewhere like ebid

Sorry, just my rant.

[sutton-park-sales]

The sentiment is fine, but too complicated.

The idea is to facilitate individuals many of whom can't tell the difference between trading and disposal of personal goods.

Keep it simple.

[moldosgifts]

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@sutton-park-sales wrote:

The sentiment is fine, but too complicated.

The idea is to facilitate individuals many of whom can't tell the difference between trading and disposal of personal goods.

Keep it simple.

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Why they've  just done very similar in the clothing section.

[brownbookbear]

Have to admit that the cold, hard numbers did make me do some thinking.  And noticed that my feedback as a buyer is relatively close in numbers to that as a seller.

I'm a papercrafter and started crafting years before I created an ebay account.  Crafters accumulate "stuff".  I use eBay to recycle items that I don't want to use any more e.g.

I've used stamps or dies on cards for everyone I send cards to

I've upgraded to an improved item and am selling the previous ones to help off-set what I paid for the new ones

My tastes have changed

I organised my stash and realised I had bought the same item twice - won't happen again with my storage system

I bought a collection of items but only wanted some of them

A relative had to give up crafting due to dexterity issues and gave me a lot of their things.  Some are in my collection, other items have sold on eBay and proceeds given to relative as booktokens for them to buy books (they would not accept the cash)

I added an extra item to my basket just to get Free shipping.  That is certainly a habit I've stopped.

Being carried away by latest trend - easy solution, create a Pinterest board to save the ideas to.  Re-visit and possibly buy item or realise you did not need it and remove.

eBay has given me the opportunity to:

sell some clothes and buy other clothes

buy books I cannot find locally

buy craft items I cannot find locally

My wife would have cut up my debit cards years ago.

I realised years ago that everyone spends money in different ways and some people like having "stuff" (reading, crafting etc) and others enjoy experiences (concerts, subscriptions, night out).  

We're all different and it's our choice.  I have friends who are reguarly go to concerts and theatre productions and can spend hundreds of pounds on tickets, travel and hotels.  Not my thing, but it's what they like.  Colleagues spend a lot of money on weekend nights out - food, drink, taxi home as they missed the last train.  Again, not my thing, but it's what they enjoy.  Lots of people have subscriptions to Amazon, SKY, Netflix etc etc  I'm happy with Terrestrial TV but they enjoy having lots of content.  Makes water cooler conversation harder when you are the only one who hasn't seen the latest series on SKY etc but we are all individuals who make different decisions.

But as I choose to buy "stuff", when my tastes/requirements change I have things to sell.  My friends and colleagues choose experiences - they have photos, memories & souvenirs which take up a lot less space.  Neither is right or wrong, just different.