The White List

[wigan_no._1]

Have you ever heard of "The White List" ? We`ll bet many of you have never heard of it. We didn`t know it existed until yesterday. Now, many will be asking eBay as to what is going on here. We did and we were disgusted by the answer.

The White List, is what Business Sellers can sign up to, that legally enables them to sell items on the EMBARGOED LIST of Countries that eBay has.

We were asked a question by a Private Seller who has had all of her items she was selling from PERSIA, being old Stamps and Coins, removed by eBay and a very threatening message sent to her regarding her future conduct on this site. When we asked Customer Services about this on her behalf, we were flabbergasted and disgusted by their responces. 

BUSINESS SELLERS can sign up to the WHITE LIST and sell with impunity but, PRIVATE SELLERS will have their listings deleted, sent a warning letter and lose all of their fees.

Who actually controls eBay, we ask? THE WHITE LIST! THE WHITE HOUSE even? 

Where is the LEVEL PLAYING FIELD here? 

eBay is supposed to be a fair Marketplace. 

Why should Business Sellers have a legal loophole which Private sellers cannot get access to unless they pay for a Business account? 

This site needs to take either a closer look at their Legal responsibilities regarding listings or, cease this disgusting practice of treating Joe Public Private sellers as inferior members. Private Sellers are the majority on eBay. If they all decided to leave this platform, eBay would be a distant memory.

TREAT EVERYONE WITH THE SAME DECENCY!

[m25jet]

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@wigan_no._1 wrote:

eBay is supposed to be a fair Marketplace. 

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The concept of eBay being a fair marketplace disappeared years ago.  eBay may have started off with those aims in the early days, but the site has since evolved into a site that favours the larger sellers, whilst at the same time becoming one that penalises the smaller sellers.  It's now more like a site with two sets of rules - one set of favourable rules for the larger sellers who bring in lots of revenue for eBay, hence eBay's willingness to turn a blind eye to things that other smaller sellers wouldn't be able to get away with, and another completely different set of rules, many of which are far more restrictive, for the smaller sellers who only bring in a very small amount of revenue for eBay.

[roger_roger_over_and_nowt]

Private sellers are now very much the minority.

I always scan newly listed and on each page of 50 new listings i am lucky to find 5 new lstings offered by private sellers.

Most pages are swamped by Chinese sellers so it all gets rather boring very quickly.