And what's even more amazing is that the woman who helped drag Ebay into the sewer (Meg Whitman) is now running for governor of California. Hasn't that state been through enough? FRANC
-----Original Message----- From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Hershenson Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 6:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOPO] eBay follies 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]> mailto:[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/51017613 4 for 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. 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