On top of all of that is the very obvious practise of "turning sales on and off like a tap". Plenty of people report that they get a cluster of sales and it's like the tap is switched off for a week or more. Then suddenly a cluster of sales will happen again. I experienced it myself with what feels like normal sales happening in fairly quick succession and then nothing for ages. I know some other private sellers and the exact thing happens to them. I have also read this from other people on here and on other sites. So, it's definitely something eBay is doing.
It got to the point where you would know if you had say 3 sales in a day that you wouldn't get anything after that for at least a week, and that is exactly what happened.
Other people report that their tap gets switched on and switched off in ever decreasing volumes, so that over time they get less and less sales.
eBay are literally toying with people. The only question is why? Is it because CEO Jamie Iannone is only interested in "high value buyers", luxury goods and collectibles? If so, quit playing with people and just be honest. If you don't want certain people on your platform, don't waste their time, just say so.
Personally speaking, I stopped selling and buying on here in January. I started being more active on the forum at that point, because it all seemed like something underhanded was going on. It has got worse in the last two months and I now have ZERO trust in this platform. So, I guess it's all working perfectly to plan. I was a "low value buyer" and "low value seller", so not someone Jamie Iannone would want to be anywhere near. Having read so many posts and so much from around the internet on what is going on, I am now satisfied that my decision to walk away from eBay was the right one and that what I believed was happening actually is happening. Also, straight from the CEO himself about what his vision for eBay going forward is and it doesn't include the little people.
First they came for the private sellers...... then they came for the low value business sellers...... Just make sure you're either a "high value buyer" or seller and deal in those collectibles and luxury goods. Otherwise, that cliff is approaching.
I'm annoyed by it all, because none of it is transparent. I've had to find all this out for myself. So, I've wasted a lot of time trying to make my sales work by fiddling with prices, photos, descriptions, etc. When the truth was none of that would make any difference, because the tap was off behind the scenes. Nothing I would do would make any difference until eBay turned the tap back on. As well as doing that, I've had to waste my time in trying to find out if my experience really was my fault or if eBay have been playing games with me behind the scenes. Well, it is clear that is exactly what they do now. So, I washed my hands of eBay in January and I am now going to wash my hands of this forum. Even the forum has a lot of shenanigans going on. So, for me the word eBay is enough to make me walk the other way now. Having come to eBay ot the forum every day for a long time, it is a hard habit to break. I've declared I won't come back here and then I do. It's one of those sticky sites and it is designed that way. So, it isn't easy to just walk away. But now I have satisfied myself about what is going on, there's really no reason for me to be here. Hopefully today is the day I can stop coming here. I don't like the site at all now. It isn't what it was. The "it's free to sell" TV campaign seems to be more of a hollow P.R. exercise now. It's all about the image rather than the reality. Urgh!
