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16-04-2025
10:56 PM
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17-02-2026
12:51 PM
by
kh-erika
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 Outdated, irrelevant, and punishes sellers for things they have zero control over.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.
eBay is finished. And they did it to themselves.
25-01-2026 8:46 AM
Could not have put it better myself you are 100% correct ! we have two eBay shops and have been selling on eBay for over 15 years but for some reason our sales have plummeted on both shops ! Why ? Definitely nothing to do with the product or price , but then eBay suggested promoted listings but to get best results they want 20% 30% and even more from the sale price to get the sales up again this can’t be legal surely ?
25-01-2026 9:04 AM
What would be illegal about it?
25-01-2026 9:22 AM
25-01-2026 9:57 AM
If you aren't advertising and others are - it would stand to reason you would get less sales as your listings would be less visible than those who are promoting.
Anyone taking ebays suggested 20-30% needs their heads checking though.
25-01-2026 10:08 AM
My sales are way down from 12 - 18 months ago and I didn't advertise or promote. Why should we be bullied into paying the high percentage rates when before everyone got almost the same chance of being seen in a search (bar those who paid for promoted)?
Yes part of the problem is the tariff situation from the US, but mostly it is eBay punishing those of us who think their percentage take for promoting and/or advertising is way too high in the first place
eBay used to be a great place to buy and sell now it is a place where you have to pray to sell anything if you don't promote.
25-01-2026 11:55 AM - edited 25-01-2026 11:57 AM
I agree and anyone who takes Ebays suggested price to start their auctions off at also need their heads checking.
I just listed a load of jewellery.......Ebay suggested a starting price of £9.99 ! It scraps (which it is not at £120).
I never promote listings 🙂 When it comes to jewellery i honestly do not think we need to promote it. it seems to be the only thing selling at the minute.....obv just my opinion from my own experiences.
25-01-2026 12:01 PM
I imagine given the price of gold and silver - most are seeing it as an investment!
25-01-2026 3:15 PM
Don't even get me started on the eBay suggested price! I deal in antiques and collectables mostly along with refurbishing and restoring antique oil lamps and there is 1 where the burner/wick holder alone sells used for £190 wholesale and then there is the reservoir and the column let alone the 25 hours of work I did on it to make it like new they suggested £75 for a lamp that sells between £435 - £695!!!!
My small items of antique silver are selling well but then again they are small and cheaper....but I am in it for the long haul...if someone gives me a reasonable offer I will take it....like an antique silver letter opener from America I had listed for £75....10 hours later someone offered £55 and I said why not as it didn't take a lot of my time to get it up to scratch. So I am fair with customers......unlike eBay!
25-01-2026 3:16 PM
@jonatjonatjonat one of the few times we agree.
Even when we don't it is still good to have the differing opinions 🙂
17-02-2026 11:30 AM
Just coming here to add to the voices. The platform is all but unusable now. Basic functionality missing at every turn.
28-02-2026 9:44 AM
I and many others totally agree. It's become a pathetic service run by nerds without brains. Restrictions payment holds all for just doing whats right and expected. Punished for not being dishonest here ! I'm off back to ETSY !
I,m sure someone should go on dragons den with a real auction site app? Billions of potential clients are waiting for this to happen!!
13-04-2026 2:26 PM
I agree entirely. All I wanted to do was speak to a human, customer-service representative. It's now seemingly impossible. All telephone numbers end up on an AI platform, which is useless. EBAY WILL BE OUT OF BUSINESS SOON!
20-04-2026 9:31 AM
I share your frustration. eBay’s current fee structure and unfair changes are making it almost impossible to turn a profit. Many of us are losing money and time just to keep their pockets full. Something needs to change for sellers to survive. eBay - you are killing our businesses!!
22-04-2026 1:31 PM
You are absolutely spot on
22-04-2026 1:47 PM
It always amazes me how a blatant business seller using a private account, it complaining about this sort of thing!
One of the biggest problems on this platform are those sellers who are abusing it by using private accounts, instead of business! Sort yourself out before complaining!
It is illegal to trade with a private account when you are a business.
22-04-2026 1:50 PM
You are in no position to complain when you are trading on a private account.
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22-04-2026
1:57 PM
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22-04-2026
3:11 PM
by
kh-erika
That’s hilarious considering I’m a private seller and not a business LOL. Let me know if companies house says otherwise or any official registrations.
22-04-2026 2:00 PM - edited 22-04-2026 2:04 PM
@msautobreakers wrote:
That’s hilarious considering I’m a private seller and not a business LOL. Clown. Let me know if companies house says otherwise or any official registrations. Clown X100
https://www.instagram.com/msautobreakers/
22-04-2026 2:02 PM
22-04-2026 2:23 PM
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