eBay Is Dead

[pinball-fantasies]

I am thinking eBay as a selling platform is dead since the seller protection was added ? I wonder if eBay have notice the decline in sellers since new rules started . In my 20 years of selling on eBay Ive never seen it like this

I have 20 watchers on my account , most of them are still selling but their sales have fallen to almost to nothing over the last 2 months and a few sellers have gone from the platform , its like all the buyers have gone

I wonder if eBay have notice the fall in sales or do they really care anymore

Is eBay a sicking ship and now doomed ?

[wgwillia]

R.I.P What a mess up by Ebay they have killed the golden goose.

[6kitkat]

From the perspective of a part time private seller.

I used to sell my kid's Playmobil, and the odd train set, nothing special - perhaps £1000 a year of our own family 'tat'. I bought around £1500 a year worth of stuff from Ebay.

Ebay introduced Seller Protection, and the 48hr hold on payment in February.  I thought 'that's my lot, I'm not going to bother selling anymore'. More importantly, on 4th Feb 2025 I immediately stopped visiting the site and stopped buying items . (Bought 3 items in 5 months).

Ebay culled private sellers, but didn't think that those sellers are also buyers. Ebay is dead - to me at least.

[cluckington-palace]

Exactly like me, I have a perm job and pay my taxes, have done since 16,
worked from 14, never had a thing from the state