“Since the changes went in eBay has become a paradise for buy side scammers ,, eBay has forgotten that it is the sellers that have always paid their bills. There is a huge opportunity for a parallel payment system to replace PayPal .. eBay and PayPal together are deadly in allowing and encouraging fraud against sellers.”
That’s the same logic that says you can tax corporate income. The people that make that site run are the BUYERS. Sure, the sellers are Ebay’s direct clients. But if buyers don’t think they are getting a fair shake on the site, guess what? Sellers won’t make money and Ebay won’t make money. Pretty simple.
As to encouraging fraud against sellers—what about collusive sales that are fraud on buyers? What about the inherent ability of sellers to torpedo buyers that existed under the previous regime? I don’t fault sellers for wanting their rates to remain flat, or have the last say about buyers, but geez, think as a buyer for once and ask yourself if, as a customer, you’d rather know that you’ll get the burger you pay for or whether the seller thinks the darn bitchy burger buyer is smelly?
I know I don’t care about prior buyers—I just want to get what I paid for, be it burger, cd, or whatever.
I buy and sell ,, it’s the sellers who take it in the shorts with forced refunds to scammers , high fees and no recourse.
There are plenty of crooked and clueless buyers using Ebay. Former sellers like me are staying away and that's why Ebay is showing decreased profitability. I'm finding other ways to market.
My selling experience there even before the new rules was that it was almost impossible to make a profit. Everything was tilted to the corporate bottom line and the buyer. Ebay and PayPal fees simply ate up any profitability the snipers left. Now it's even worse. No way Jose! I'm not going to do all that work and pay huge fees in order to simply give my stuff away and risk charge-backs! Most EBay buyers are fine but there are a few real snakes out there!