@birch180 wrote:
well i watched a programe on TV 2 years back and an Ebay worker said they were down 5% people were leaving at an alarming rate, you only have to go on to Facebook market place there are virtually many thousands of people selling and buying stuff because they are sick of getting ripped off if sellers keep getting protected you will keep loosing buyers full stop
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Feedback being removed in large quantities like that isn't something that usually happens.
I don't know what is going on but it isn't typical for most Australian sellers.
I have heard of it happening very occasionally though. Very strange.
Facebook marketplace isn't booming though because people are sick of being ripped off on ebay. It's a completely different online platform. I've found myself browsing it a lot lately & it has nothing to do with me not liking ebay. It's because it is so convenient. You go in to check posts by friends and when you have done that, with one click you're then in marketplace and you don't even have to type in any searches, it just fills the screen with the sort of things you have recently browsed. And a lot are automatically from your area. It's great. No wonder it has taken off.
But the descriptions can be completely inaccurate or missing on detail (more so than any ebay seller would dare) and don't believe there are no scammers there, a friend's son had a phone stolen by one of the people who responded to an ad which I think he had up on facebook. You have to take care everywhere.
