Yuck, if you go onto Craigslist then Clothing + Acc, it's all used panties.  Eek. 

Don't think this is really the platform for me.

I would like to thank ebay for driving me away also. It has motivated me to find different seliing platforms such as markets ( quite  enjoyable once you get organised) & also learning about facebook adds + others  Hopefully one day they might wake up to themselves but I won't hold my breath     Good luck with your ventures !

The very FIRST THING that needs to be changed is for sellers to have the right to leave negative feeback for sellers who dont pay. Also there MUST BE some kind of doable, PROPER penalty imposed BY EBAY for those who do not pay, simply having a strike against a person, then blocking them from your own store obviously does NOT WORK. Honestly you would think the Ebay system would be fed up with being bunged up all the time by the endless, endless non payment disputes...........................

Ebay first needs to weed out these CONSTANT non payers, by giving sellers some of their rights back. That is where I would start if I were CEO.

I agree that non-payers should be looked at more stringently by eBay, however negs for buyers didn't work in the past and wouldn't work now - in the past all that happened was that the buyer would immediately leave a retaliatory neg for the seller (or get a friend to do it) , which now with the defect system in place would leave the seller in a no-win situation and the possibility of being deregistered/restricted from selling. 

But thats exactly my point what I meant to say was to go back to the old ways before these ridiculous systems like the defect system, and back in the old days, buyers could not leave you a neg if you left them one because they didnt pay, Ebay would remove it as **bleep** for tat, Im talking WAAAAY back in time here : )

facebook

craigslist

trading post

gumtree (ebay owned)

amazon

locanto

quicksales

your own web site etc etc etc.....

.... none of which have even close to the amount of traffic unfortunately.

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Unfortunately so true.