I know this type of topic has been done to the death, but still.
It was back in 2014 when I first started my business on ebay, selling gifts, fashion items, wedding accessories...etc; it was an exciting experience and I learned a lot.
2015 was my best year, over $600k business turnover (which means I paid almost 60K to ebay that year); I was busy, but happy, and really started to love ebay.
2016, things started to go downhill siginificantly, with new policies after new policies, I still pushed on; just work harder, things will get better I believed.
Now, 2017, my turnover on ebay for the last financial year was merely $100k, and my income isn't even enough to pay the bills anymore.
Time to quit.
How did everything go downhill so quickly you ask?
Ebay just doesn't give a S**T about us small or even medium sellers anymore.
They started to favour big big sellers, big brands that people already known of; as for us, we helped building ebay up, and now we are trash to them.
Most if not all traffic is now being guided to those big stores, or those extremely cheap but rubbish items from overseas.
This baffles me a lot, we pay a lot commissions to ebay, so do those big stores (I think), what makes ebay like them more than us?
Our item is more expensive than those from overseas, which means we need to pay more commission out of each sale, what makes ebay like them more than us?
If only big stores remain on ebay, would buyer still care about ebay then?
Obviously, if I want something from Good Guys, I go to Good Guys, why ebay? WHY?
Sale event you say? Discount voucher? As far as I know many of those sales events are straight lies, the price you get after you applied discount voucher is actually the same or even more than regular retail prices you get from elsewhere.
Yet still, every time ebay gives out vouchers for "selected" big sellers, my sale is dead.
Some other times my sale is just dead, with no clear reason whatsoever.
Yet I still have to pay extra for listing promotion, such shamless pratice and pathetic excuse for a rip off.
Also I have to suffer extra lose due to unfair requests opened by dishonest buyers aka scammers.
I tried hard to keep my feedback in good standing, and my seller status Top Rated, none seems to help even a bit.
Today I have decided not to list new items anymore, just clear the remaining of stock, and that's it.
I loved you ebay, you were so wonderful and made my dream come true.
Sadly it didn't last... we had a good run, but now, you have turned into a piece of S**T.
Farewell.
