@cobwebcottage wrote:
'Again and again it's been said about other sites -- They're easy to use. Ebay isn't easy for buyers or sellers any more.'
Tosh.
Speaking as a BS/ PS, buyer and seller. It's as easy as pie.
You might sell some of your private items on a private account but that isn't the same (by a very long chalk) as being a private seller.
Primarily you are a business seller.
You probably spend more hours using ebay in a month than a lot of private sellers do in a year.
As a business seller it gives you an advantage to keep up with all ebay's changes and their weekly maintenance tinkering.
Between regular new listings and almost as regular dispatching of sales, you'll have plenty of spare hours to keep up with the boards and all the info. they provide.
The vast majority of private sellers don't do any of those things. They come to a site that all too often changes radically between visits.
They can't knock out a few listings in minutes, they plod through the listing form, sometimes baffled and being hit by every new glitch they encounter.
Private sellers will often have different expectations and 'wants' from ebay than a business seller has. They certainly interact less and differently with ebay than business sellers do.
Ebay has been transformed into a business oriented site over the last few years, which suits you, as a business, very well, but for most private sellers that process has added unwanted and pointless complexity. It's transformed ebay into an increasingly useless site for non-business sellers. It's something that too many business sellers who comment on the boards, simply don't understand and don't care about.
