Title: eBay Is an Absolute Embarrassment — Run by Greedy, Out-of-Touch Dinosaurs

eBay is hands down the worst selling platform on the internet today. It’s a bloated, broken system run by corporate parasites who haven’t evolved in over a decade. They don’t give a single damn about sellers — especially resellers — the very people who built this platform from the ground up.

Let’s be real: their metrics system is a joke. Outdated, irrelevant, and punishes sellers for things they have zero control over. A buyer doesn’t pay? Your fault. Delivery delay caused by the courier? Your fault. You could be running a perfect store, but one wrong move and they’ll tank your performance. It’s pathetic.

The new delivery posting interface is straight trash. Confusing, inefficient, and clearly made by people who have never sold a single thing in their lives. It’s like they went out of their way to make it worse.

And then there’s the Promoted Listings scam. You’re basically forced to pay eBay to get seen — but joke’s on us, because even when you do, it barely works. You hand over more of your profit for less visibility. No keyword control, no targeting, no insight. Just a black hole that eats your money and gives you nothing back. It’s daylight robbery.

eBay isn’t a marketplace anymore — it’s a greedy, bloodsucking machine. They want maximum profit with minimum effort. Seller support is non-existent. Feedback systems are broken. Their customer service is scripted nonsense. And the people running it? Useless. If I were a shareholder, I’d fire every single exec, bulldoze the boardroom, and start over.

They’ve forgotten one basic truth: without sellers, eBay is nothing. But like every other soulless corporation, they’ve traded community for cash grabs. And now they’re bleeding users and still too arrogant to care.

If you're thinking of selling on eBay — don't waste your time. There are better platforms out there that don’t treat you like trash while rinsing your pockets.

eBay is finished. And they did it to themselves.

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Re: Title: eBay Is an Absolute Embarrassment — Run by Greedy, Out-of-Touch Dinosaurs

Agreed …. A successful business HAS to have good staff and a loyal, looked after customer base.

eBay have most certainly not got the later !!!

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Re: Title: eBay Is an Absolute Embarrassment — Run by Greedy, Out-of-Touch Dinosaurs

Agree with all you say.I am shortly closing down my ebay account of 2000+ listings.Absolutly no help from these guys if you have a problem just a stock standard automated reply.I don't want to use their greedy money making simple delivery when Royal Mail costs me less.As for EVRI they could not find the right delivery address most of the time.Maybe their partnership suits them as they are both absolute trite.

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I damn well hate ebay they put massive restrictions on people and ask the earth they can SOD OFF. *bleep*S

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Re: Title: eBay Is an Absolute Embarrassment — Run by Greedy, Out-of-Touch Dinosaurs

you are totally right in everything you say, i pretty much gave the same feedback yesterday, my sales tanked when they brought in this new promote scam,so i changed all my listings to the dynamic option,   when i look at the fees i was paying i don’t even cover the costs of materials, so i have changed it back to 2% raised all my prices so i doubt anything will sell and porting everything back to etsy where i started and will close my ebay store in the next few weeks. 

The question i have is let’s say 1000 sellers all selling similar items and promote there listings at 20%, what determines who gets the top spot, some one is still going to be paying 20% promotion yet still is 999 ranked in the list. 

i reckon that creating your own website, driving traffic through google ads and social media will still be cheaper than selling on ebay albeit a bit more work, but as of now i too think ebay is a joke. 

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