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Goodbye to eBay

dotm2004 — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:59:04 GMT

After years of selling on eBay, I have decided to finish up and don't intend to list any more items. As I do free postage, it's not worth the effort, if you purchase the items you sell and do free postage The market isn't there any more

I have no complaints, and have enjoyed the interaction with buyers, some who are in contact regularly whether buying or not.

Now for the ironic part .. since making this decision a couple of months ago, the following has been on my page EVERY DAY !!! (for over 2 months) How I would have loved this over the past years

Pay Only When You Sell This Month

Pay no insertion fees on up to 100 listings per day. Auction and Fixed Price listings only Learn More - opens in a new window or tab

Available at ebay.com.au

22/01/18 00:00:00 AEDST

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Re: Goodbye to eBay

transport-posters — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 01:51:51 GMT

The trick is to try and find something which not a lot of people are selling. Hard but seems to be the only way.

Re: Goodbye to eBay

dotm2004 — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 05:57:42 GMT

I totally agree with you transport posters, but I'm too old and settled to change ... maybe I'll go travelling

Re: Goodbye to eBay

chameleon54 — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 14:06:35 GMT

Its sad to see another seller leaving, especially a regular contributor to the boards. Enjoy the travel and all the best for the retirement.

Re: Goodbye to eBay

buynow-buynow — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 02:13:01 GMT

Good choice, the people running ebay are blood sucking scumbags

Re: Goodbye to eBay

imastawka — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 02:23:26 GMT

Says the person with horrendous feedback.

Re: Goodbye to eBay

padi*0409 — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 02:54:12 GMT

Hasn't sold anything for over 6 months, but still subscribed to a store Stawks ??? What the................

Re: Goodbye to eBay

lyndal1838 — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 03:56:15 GMT

Padi, when you click on the little door it tells you the store does not exist. Ebay Gremlins perhaps?

Re: Goodbye to eBay

padi*0409 — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 04:16:00 GMT

That'll teach me to be more diligent in my sleuthing......................

"slaps head"

Re: Goodbye to eBay

brerrabbit585 — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 07:19:50 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
Says the person with horrendous feedback.

But all their buyers got lovely feedback.

They may have closed the shop recently but the logo still shows because the subscription hasn't run its course (to the end of the billing month).

Re: Goodbye to eBay

porcelain_dolls_by_me — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 08:07:47 GMT

touche

Re: Goodbye to eBay

morgan*73 — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 23:12:52 GMT

In the Seller dashboard, unsold listings constantly show items that have been relisted. This is a total waste of time. I want to find items that haven't been relisted. I have to scroll through 10 pages of relisted items to find ones that haven't been relisted. Ebay don't make things simple for you. You spend a lot of time on things that shouldn't take so long. I could list more but what's the point.

Re: Goodbye to eBay

davewil1964 — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 08:06:06 GMT

At the top of the page are options to refine the display.

Select 'not relisted' and your 'problem' is solved.

Or leave because you can't navigate the place. This is a 'I'm spitting the dummy and want everybody to know even though I don't usually post on the boards' thread, after all.

Re: Goodbye to eBay

morgan*73 — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 22:27:45 GMT

Ok but I don't understand why they don't make the default setting not relisted. The other issue I have is when printing address labels a lot of them are not set up correctly like for the suburb they put Adelaide instead of the suburb and you have to make changes in order to properly print the labels. This happens a lot, this should be something Ebay sorts out with each user before they purchase. It is a bit of extra work but happens a lot for me.

Re: Goodbye to eBay

dotm2004 — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 12:08:03 GMT

Agree

Re: Goodbye to eBay

chameleon54 — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 22:56:52 GMT

@morgan*73 wrote:
Ok but I don't understand why they don't make the default setting not relisted. The other issue I have is when printing address labels a lot of them are not set up correctly like for the suburb they put Adelaide instead of the suburb and you have to make changes in order to properly print the labels. This happens a lot, this should be something Ebay sorts out with each user before they purchase. It is a bit of extra work but happens a lot for me.

Perhaps the relisted item has hundreds of sales to happy customers who want to find that item again quickly, rather than having to scroll through pages of new fly by night, inexperienced sellers, with overpriced listings.

I buy a certain packaging item in bulk from a particular seller every few months. It drops off my purchase history, before I get around to buying it again, so cant track it that way. . The seller has over 10,000 listings and multi variations in size and quantity, so can take some finding there. I find it simplest to just type in the item and the succesfull sellers item comes up top of my search.

The fact that you want to see new listings, does not mean everyone else wants to see new listings, or that " not relisted" is even the most popular ebay search for everyone. That is why ebay has the search parameters in place, so that buyers can change them to suit their own personal needs.

Re: Goodbye to eBay

imastawka — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:12:30 GMT

@chameleon54 wrote:

I buy a certain packaging item in bulk from a particular seller every few months. It drops off my purchase history, before I get around to buying it again, so cant track it that way. . The seller has over 10,000 listings and multi variations in size and quantity, so can take some finding there. I find it simplest to just type in the item and the succesfull sellers item comes up top of my search.

Ummm, Chameleon, your purchase history goes back two years.

There's a drop down for that.

Re: Goodbye to eBay

davewil1964 — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 03:30:08 GMT

Morgan was talking about his ended items. Not looking for something to buy. Pays to read the whole thing sometimes.

Re: Goodbye to eBay

chameleon54 — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 10:54:09 GMT

Thats a good reason to keep comin back to the forums......Still learnin stuff I didnt know.....

Re: Goodbye to eBay

dotm2004 — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 03:10:14 GMT

Your learn something new every day Chameleon, so keep coming back !! ..... I retired (at retiring age) 10 years ago and am still learning