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@clarry100 wrote:

 

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There are many reasons why we are now in the process of setting up our own independent website. We will try to keep trading on here, notwithstanding these things, until we can get the new website running the way we want it to. Then we will close out.

 

It's becoming more & more of a headache here and honestly how much can a good honest seller bear before they crack and leave. The place will be abandoned by the Aussies to the shonky/cheap Chinese sellers. That seems to be who they want/favour.

 

Buyers will only put up with the left-over bad sellers for so long until they too abandon ship and look elsewhere. IMHO inside 5-years ebay will be a thing of the past if they keep on down their current tracks.

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I have had a suspicion for some time now that eBay is trying to get rid of sellers of one-off collectable second hand items (? to Gumtree, which it also owns) and become a sort of Amazon.com mark II, selling items mass produced in China which can be listed as "free postage", because postage is so cheap in China (? 'subsidised' by the Chinese government).

The recent disastrous FVF on postage policy and strong "encouragement" to incorporate postage into the selling price is further support for this suspicion.

The cyberattack on eBay and the FVF on postage have combined to create a "perfect storm" of buyers deserting eBay in droves. Although some sellers have noticed no downturn in sales, I like many other sellers on these posts have noticed across my eBay sites a marked downturn in all 3 parameters of buyer interest - "lookers", "watchers" and bidders/buyers since the two events which occurred within a short space of time (or at least in the case of the cyberattack, became public, which was quite some time after the actual cyberattack).