Changes coming soon to eBay.com.au (14/03/2011)

CmtyGuide-Mary@ebay.com
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Changes coming soon to eBay.com.au

This thread is to discuss the ***Changes coming soon to eBay.com.au*** announcement made on 14/03/2012.

These changes include:

FREE pictures and listing upgrade changes

Simplified Fees

Updates to eBay’s Feedback and seller standards

Zero day handling time option for same day dispatch

Custom settings for payment, postage & returns information

Electronics: List using eBay catalogues in more categories

Changes to the Classifieds listing format

April 2012 category changes

Please be advised, off-topic and/or disruptive posts may be deleted.


 


 

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Re: Changes coming soon to eBay.com.au (14/03/2011)

Hello fellow ebayers. What a shame, more changes. I know it's the only law of the universe but the impermanence ebays instills in us is defiantly a socially engineered experiment to see how much punishment sellers can take.
I know some pesimists out there wil be thinking what's this guy on about.?
Well I am quite experienced with this eBay thing and find it EASILY the worst thing in my life. It is continually broken and the changes really make me wonder at every turn why?
What keeps running through my head is "who make these changes?"
who does.? What kind of experience do they have. Are they for real. It just keeps getting worse. As discussed the only logical thing that I can think of is a social experiment to see how much readjustments people can make. It's a perfect mirror to the world. More war, bankers stealing sovereignty from countries whilst the general public just accepts this.e bay is the same. People just keep plodding on. The frog never jumps from the hot water until it's boiled. I am getting hot.
All in all and last comments are why change. Looking at the new Zealand site trade me never a change. A simple platform site. Well done kiwis.
The changes ore 6 years are too many to list but I can honestly say all changes have been detrimental to my business on every occourance. Shame any business can treat it's customers with such distain.
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Re: Changes coming soon to eBay.com.au (14/03/2011)

Oh yes,,,just read this,,,, FANTASTIC NOT.... mazimum fees for sellers selling bug ticket items goin UP TO $100...... give us A BREAK EBAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!! we do ALL THE WORK,,,,, your precious sellers will just have to PAY MORE FOR THE ITEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LET'S SEE HOW THEY LIKE THAT !!!!

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THAT'S BIG TICKET ITEMS... sorry for typo,,, am a little bit ANGRY.

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every time I see an email about a "change" from Ebay,,, I know what it means........................ MORE FEES TO SELLERS !!!!

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When will I read an announcement about SELLERS being able to give buyers a NEGATIVE FEEDBACK AGAIN............. COME ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ???????????




ebay have a STONG BUSINESS in Australia,,, especially in Melbourne from what I can see,,,,,, yet they just keep screwing us for more and more and MORE>.....



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When will I read an announcement about SELLERS being able to give buyers a NEGATIVE FEEDBACK AGAIN


 


My vote is... Never. Ebay changed many years ago and has moved into the 21st century now.


 


Modern eCommerce sites, especially eBay's (more successful?) opposition, doesn't allow for buyers to be slagged off in public. It makes the buyers happier, so they return to the site.


 


If you feel the need to Neg your buyers, then you need to use that other auction site. Only problem is, there aren't many buyers over there in the first place. :^O

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Re: Changes coming soon to eBay.com.au (14/03/2011)

It really depends on which site you are talking about.  In the two categories I sell, books and china, though eBay was, it is not now, nor will it likely ever again be, the market leader when it comes to selling on line.


 


That is eBay has finally, and very belatedly,  come to realise its core business is selling advertising space to small sellers, and in the past five year more and more of those core customers have left, never to return.  Never to return because the seller has for some time had viable alternatives to go to, sites which appreciated their business.  Oh and it's likely to get a lot worse (for eBay) as more and more buyers start to use their search engine, instead of logging directly into sites, to search for goods they want.  


 


This is what this initiate is all about.  Attempting to claw back business lost by the inept buyer bias decisions of the past, but frankly, considering the quality of the competition out there, it may well be a case of gates and lost horses.


 


 

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Re: Changes coming soon to eBay.com.au (14/03/2011)

eBay is rewarding sellers with 5 stars for communication when a buyer does not need to contact them about their purchase so how about giving us multi-variant listings (like the USA & UK has) in more categories so that buyers and sellers don't have to message back and forth for selections on choice listings?


 


The other sites have had them now for years so it can be done.

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I have a small basic store that I have started to build slowly, The message from eBay about the changes coming to stores is very ambiguous, A $5.00 per month rise in fees and a reduction in listing fees is fine by me but what is going to happen when the Basic Store Merges with the Featured Store - Does this mean we will all be paying the $99.00 per month Featured store fee as it is now? Not this little black duck!


 


In relation to category changes, I agree with the request for multi/variant listings, for so long this has been available in some of the Clothing categories and in the UK and US it is available in the Craft and other categories why dont we come 'more in line with other countries' in this respect.Not only easier for us sellers but also great for buyers who have to go that extra step and request by email what color ribbon etc they want.I wonder if this will be changed in April?


 


 

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Re: Changes coming soon to eBay.com.au (14/03/2011)

I agree, more multi variant listings would an excellent improvement to ebay AU


 

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