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@Anonymous wrote:
Thanks, very interesting. And you're right, vote with your feet. The problem is eBay is world-wide so gives you an huge access to sellers. I think Facebook Market Place is pretty big, but the thing is eBay has a good setup from selling, buying, bidding, paying, posting, listing etc. Not sure any other platforms are that sophisticated. may be cheaper But you've got to weigh that up with potential reaching fewer buyers. But I'm going to have a look at Facebook.

Regards
Doug M.

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eBay used to be pretty good years ago, but lately it's now gone down hill with them constantly throttling/supressing potential sales by them manipulating the search results and forcing sellers to have to pay them more for better visibility when before visibility was good and the  items were getting seen and sold promptly after listing them for sale on eBay. 

Also they have messed up the payment, before 2022 the payment provider for eBay was PayPal which was their main payment processor and provider since 1998/99, for many years this worked very well, especially with instant payment where you could have instant access to your buyer's money and feel reassured that you "have your money" for the item you've just sold and buyers had 180 days protection if something went wrong compared to eBay's now short 30 days.

Also there is no instant payments anymore and eBay will not do anything or make an effort to address this, now it takes 1 - 4 working days for a buyer's funds to reach your bank, (mine takes around 24 hours so show up at my bank) and this is if you sell an item the day before, if you sell and item at 12:10 am then eBay make you wait a whole day until the following morning before they then send the payout money over to your bank.

Whilst to be fair it is still better than some online market places, it was once the best, but not anymore, especially now  with them constantly jacking up the fees which were already getting a bit ridiculous lately and even more now ! - Hence this thread !