I *USED* to be a really regular buyer on eBay (for a while, my buying level
was so high I needed a full-time employee to take care of paying, unpacking,
leaving feedback, etc). Not just movie paper, but also vintage glass frames,
paperback books, 1939 World's fair items, #1 magazines, and a few other
areas I somehow wandered into.
I had a lot of really good searches saved, and I also would go through a few
select entire categories, and also check all the offerings of the sellers I
bought from the most.
One day, I noticed that eBay had added a lot of unnecessary categories, that
really messed up my category searching, and worse yet, many sellers were
posting items wherever they wanted, and no one was policing this at all, and
complaints to eBay went unanswered.
Later, I noticed that most of my searches had gotten screwed up (some kind
of changes eBay had made), and I was just unwilling to re-do them all (since
eBay might ruin them again at any time).
I also noticed more and more sellers being deceptive in their titles,
meaning I would have to click on the listing to see what it *REALLY* was.
Sometimes titles like "Casablanca, rare style original movie poster" might
turn out to be a 1990s video poster!
Finally I noticed that many of my "favorite" sellers were listing less and
less, and when they did list anything good, they would usually have a high
starting price, unwilling to gamble their good posters on an eBay that was
clearly delivering less and less in the way of good buyers.
Worst of all, I was finding that a growing percentage of my purchases took
longer and longer to arrive (sometimes I would have to complain to get it
sent) and a growing percentage of my purchases were not very well wrapped,
and a growing percentage of my purchases were ovrer-graded and the seller
had somehow "missed" extremely obvious defects.
*ONE DAY, I JUST PACKED IT IN AND QUIT BUYING ON EBAY COLD TURKEY*. Do I
miss finding lots of cool stuff? Absolutely! But do I miss the hour a day I
used to spend searching all over eBay, finding something that seemed to
be promising but that turned out to be nothing, or do I miss the crushed
packages, or the over-graded items? Not at all!
*HOW ABOUT YOU?* How do your eBay buying habits *NOW* compare to a few years
ago, both in terms of time spent on the site, and total money spent?
Bruce
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