Agreed,same here,after 24 years.....
Seems this years medal for most crass and ridiculous business mis-management goes to ebay...yet again.
Someone,anyone,please correct me if I have missed something,but if my business was ranked 47th out of 47 online market places on Google,and has Trustpilot reviews of between 1.2 and 1.3 out of 5 stars(and bear in mind you can't rate it as less than 1 star),the last thing I would be thinking of would be to upset a good proportion of my customers.
Seems to me that years of attempting to halt a declining market share by increasing your fees in the face of less expensive competition hasn't worked.No surprises there,just failure by their management to sort it.
Fast forward to this latest nonsense.
In my experience,either by what is written by way of review,and just conversation regarding ebay,it seems to me that ebay is only worth using for collectable/rare/oddball items.Almost all 'everyday' items can be found cheaper elsewhere,thanks to the excessive fees applied to their business customers.Been there,had an ebay business account when I was in business,useless,not worth it,fees too high for a very limited return.
So their only decent feedback seems to come from the collectables etc.Who lists these ?.....Private sellers mainly,who can offer a bit of a bargain,when business sellers of such have the higher fees to pay.
Sweeping statements maybe,but surely indicative of a trend ?
Ebays managements answer to this,they've figured out the solution.....let's hold a gun to the heads of private sellers,and swamp them even more with smoke and mirrors than usual,let's insult their intelligence into the bargain by offering alleged 'free' sales whilst increasing the costs to both their buyers and sellers.
But we won't finish there,then let's make the posting job really difficult ,and more expensive, because that will force them to pay us more for a business account,so we can charge them even if they don't sell anything.....
Even given ebays track record of nonsense,hisorical total lack of concern for both their buyers and sellers,this latest effort surely tops the tree ?
Do they really think their service is so good that their customers will put up with all this cr*p ?
Maybe they do ?
Best of luck with it to all who stay,I'm out on the 15th .
And yes,hope they lose massively,it is what they deserve.
