I know what you mean Rich. In the day when they thought sellers were captives who would constantly bend over, they raised my rates 50% and I quit.
Now they offer certain sellers 50% off for a month to get them back. If they had simply been happy making a billion dollars a year, and not been obsessed with making 2 billion a year, they would still have all their sellers and a vibrant company. Instead they continue to circle the drain. Bruce On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Richard Halegua Comic Art < [email protected]> wrote: > I hear that sucking sound of a whirlpool spinning into the drainpipes > > one another subject, and this is funny.. > > I used to sell on fleaBay under comic-art.com > in jan 2005 fleaBay pissed me off fo rthe final time and I not only stopped > listing there. I TOLD THEM TO CLOSE MY ACCOUNT!! > CLOSE IT.. TURN ME INTO A "Not a Registered user" from the one-time > powerseller that I was > > even today my feedback is over 2000 with 99% positive and I have a higher > feedback # than Sean who sells regularly > > so just this week I was shocked to get an email from fleaBay support asking > me if I wanted to reopen my sell account > They must be getting real desperate if that's their new mission. > > this is what I have to say to them: > "Hey a*******s. You should have been paying attention in 2005.. Now yu can > drop dead, and please.. let me watch as it happens.." > > Rich > > > > > At 12:49 PM 1/9/2010, Franc wrote: > > The other "catch" is that you have to manually list the five items on Ebay. > I always use a bulk loader and you can't use this to take advantage of > Ebay's special deal. Instead you have to tediously load each item. It's > simply not worth it to me. FRANC > -----Original Message----- > From: MoPo List [ > mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>] > On Behalf Of Bruce Hershenson > Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 3:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [MOPO] eBay follies > > eBay started a "customer appreciation" deal a few months ago, where EVERY > seller gets the first five auction listing with no listing fees whatsoever! > And they give you that same deal every single month! Wow! Now you know why > you see the same crappy "million dollar" listings over and over and over, > because they don't cost the "sellers" anything, since they of course never > sell. And of course it lets eBay have some "high dollar" items, because > without giving the listings free it is hard to imagine who would list a high > dollar item on eBay. > > But there is a "catch" which results in sellers getting royally screwed, > and eBay making fortunes. You have to pay 8.75% on those free listings > instead of the regular "tiered" rate, with a cap of $25 per item, AND THEY > FORCE YOU INTO THIS DEAL WHETHER YOU WANT IT OR NOT, on the first five > auction items each month. > > So every day, lots of sellers list expensive auction items as their first > five items of the month and only first learn they are paying a whopping > 8.75% when they get their bill. One more great way eBay enriches itself by > taking advantage of its sellers. > > See > http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/Seller-Central/Ebay-Charged-Me/510176134for > a typical discussion started by a seller who was cheated by this > promotion. He will chalk it up to experience and lose $10 or so, as will > millions of other sellers. > > And eBay will keep circling the drain. > > Bruce > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > Send a message addressed to: [email protected] > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > Send a message addressed to: [email protected] > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ How to > UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: > [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF > MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
