whats happened to EBay

[tan top]

  was just going to have a lookie at charger on Ebay , clicked on my normal short cut icon ..nothing   
can't of all been sold , any one get this come up ??

http://motors.shop.ebay.com/items/Cars-Trucks___dodge-charger_W0QQGeneration890a8538Z19681970ced6404QQMake247a0eZDodge3f237b7QQModel4710b09ZCharger8f45cc1eQQ_nkwZdodgeQ20chargerQQQ5ftrkparmsZ72Q253A727Q257C39Q253A1Q257C65Q253A12QQQ5ftrksidZp4506Q2ec0Q2em245QQ_catZ6199QQ_pcatsZ6191Q2c6001Q2c6000QQ_scZ1QQ_sopZ10

[The70RT]

Must be a glitch in their system. Last night I couldn't use slots or mags to get any wheels to come up.

[squeakfinder]

Don't know. I was just on there looking at 68 Charger stuff without any problems. Did you try typing in a different search?

[squeakfinder]

Well, it was runnig kinda slow.

[tan top]

yeah tried another search ..only way i could get any 68 -70 chargers was to type it in to all categories .. not good as it was all random models .. T Shirt's etc ..couple of thousand item's  , just typed it again ..now nothing .must be a glitch like you said ..thanks for the feed back Guy's

[69charger2002]

i thought this thread was going to be a complaint about the way ebay is headed. not to hijack the thread, but with high fees, paypal required, etc. they have pretty much ran the average  'swap meet" style seller right off the site. it's mainly seller stores and big companies now. anyone else notice not as many old used parts like wheels etc on ebay anymore?  i used to type in slot or aluminum wheels and get page after page.. now it's not nearly as many as 3-4 years ago.. it's kind of pointless to list an item on ebay if it's not worth $50 or more these days i guess.. you sell an item for 3-4 bucks on ebay, you better make some on shipping, or you'll owe ebay/paypal money when you get done with the process of selling your item.   
trav

[Ghoste]

I have noticed that as well Travis.

[tan top]

no your ok Travis  ..carry on Dude  ........

[The70RT]

Now no money orders either 

[ACUDANUT]

 Plus if you sell something and the jerk does not pay you, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE NEGATIVE FEEDBACK.  The sellers have zero rights.

[terrible one]

Plus if you sell something and the jerk does not pay you, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE NEGATIVE FEEDBACK.  The sellers have zero rights.

Man I saw that the other day. WTF?! 

[Old Moparz]

I was on ebay this afternoon looking at the collector car section & it worked fine. 

As for using ebay, I gave up on it as a seller early last year for all of the same reasons others have posted. The final straw was when I had 4 parts auctions all going at the same time, & 3 of them were screwed up by ebay. They wouldn't resolve it, even after someone in tech support admitted that something was wrong. All 4 were listed with the same instructions & the same auction set up, but 3 of them didn't work.

It might sound weird, but anyone with an auction going, you should check the auction once it's listed, but check it while you are not logged in. What had happened to mine, was that if I was logged in, the auction appeared to be okay & just as I listed them. If I didn't log in, but looked at the auction, it had different instructions to the bidders. I had found it by accident when I checked the auction status from work & had not been logged in.

The instructions stated, (while I was not logged in) to potential bidders, that they had to be registered & preapproved in order to bid. The 4th one did not have those instructions, & that part sold. I had re-listed the 3 items thinking that they just didn't have the right person looking when I had them there. In the last hour of one auction, I got an email from someone asking why they couldn't bid on my auction.

I didn't know what they were talking about, & that's when I first found out about ebay screwing it up. I lost the sale since the buyer couldn't place a bid on a no reserve auction. He also probably thought I was a scammer. I contacted ebay many times by email, by live support, & finally had one guy admit that something was wrong, but he didn't know why. How could they not research how the auction ran?

He said to me, "You'll have to re-list the item so I can figure out why."

"No, I am not paying for a 3rd auction on something that ebay screwed up." I said.

His answer was, "Well, we can't check on a completed auction, so we can't help you."

I told him, "I guess I won't be using ebay anymore, see ya."

F**K ebay. 

[resq302]

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't CASH still a legal tender for debt, public and private?  It says so right on the bills now adays too!  How can ebay legally prevent you from accepting cash which is a federally accepted way of negotiating debt.  My mom collects antique post cards of our hometown and she was the winning bid of .99 cents.  The seller refused to accept a postal money order (again, guaranteed funds.) claiming that ebay had reduced their feedback for accepting money orders and refused to take cash since it was against ebay policy.  Since when did ebay have more power than the federal government.  I think someone or some group should get together and start a class action lawsuit against Ebay for refusing to allow you to pay for an item that is federally acknowledged and accepted.

[Old Moparz]

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't CASH still a legal tender for debt, public and private?  It says so right on the bills now adays too!  How can ebay legally prevent you from accepting cash which is a federally accepted way of negotiating debt.  My mom collects antique post cards of our hometown and she was the winning bid of .99 cents.  The seller refused to accept a postal money order (again, guaranteed funds.) claiming that ebay had reduced their feedback for accepting money orders and refused to take cash since it was against ebay policy.  Since when did ebay have more power than the federal government.  I think someone or some group should get together and start a class action lawsuit against Ebay for refusing to allow you to pay for an item that is federally acknowledged and accepted.

That's an interesting point I forgot about. When I used ebay to sell things a long time ago, I always wanted to be paid by money order. The last time I used it, (when I had problems with the 3 of the 4 auctions) ebay wouldn't let me put money orders as a way of payment. I HAD NO CHOICE in having to "offer" paypal in the auctions or I couldn't list them. I literally could not complete the auction listing on the screen to start it.

The message said "You must offer paypal to bidders so we can get even more money from your ass, or you can keep the crap you're trying to sell & go f**k yourself" or something like that.   

[squeakfinder]

i thought this thread was going to be a complaint about the way ebay is headed. not to hijack the thread, but with high fees, paypal required, etc. they have pretty much ran the average  'swap meet" style seller right off the site. it's mainly seller stores and big companies now. anyone else notice not as many old used parts like wheels etc on ebay anymore?  i used to type in slot or aluminum wheels and get page after page.. now it's not nearly as many as 3-4 years ago.. it's kind of pointless to list an item on ebay if it's not worth $50 or more these days i guess.. you sell an item for 3-4 bucks on ebay, you better make some on shipping, or you'll owe ebay/paypal money when you get done with the process of selling your item.   
trav

I haven't sold on there for almost 3 years for that reason. What really sucks is when you have a heavy item like a cylinder head. Lets say you get $25.00 for the part, but it costs $70.00 to ship it and the buyer pays with paypal, you get charged by paypal for a $95.00 transaction, plus your listing fee's,final value fee's, any fee's needed to get your item more noticed and then there's the time spent packageing the thing and time spent on the computer, taking it to the UPS store witch is 10 miles away. Then you find out for some reason the shipping is higher by 7 bucks. 

[TruckDriver]

they have pretty much ran the average  'swap meet" style seller right off the site. it's mainly seller stores and big companies now. anyone else notice not as many old used parts like wheels etc on ebay anymore?  i used to type in slot or aluminum wheels and get page after page.. now it's not nearly as many as 3-4 years ago.. it's kind of pointless to list an item on ebay if it's not worth $50 or more these days i guess.. you sell an item for 3-4 bucks on ebay, you better make some on shipping, or you'll owe ebay/paypal money when you get done with the process of selling your item.  
trav

Now no money orders either 

Not only that, Something about their site now really bogs my computer down BAD

I pretty much only go there to buy cds and video games now.

[b5blue]

Sounds like I was right to never try to sell anything, what a pain in the butt!!! My friend has the EBAY fever really bad just now and is learning all this stuff the hard way!

[bull]

Sounds like I was right to never try to sell anything, what a pain in the butt!!! My friend has the EBAY fever really bad just now and is learning all this stuff the hard way!

Never? That's a pretty screwy theory because there was a time when it was really, really good, but I think Ebay's best days are definitely behind it now, at least as far as the average Joe is concerned. It's still one of the best places to find and get rid of many rare items. And I was able to make a lot of money for my hobby that I probably couldn't have otherwise.

As far as not finding Chargers for sale, there have been some odd glitches on that site during the past year or so. I usually just type 1968 dodge charger into the search box and sometimes I won't see any actual cars for sale for some reason. But the last time I did that I think there were more than 20 pages of parts listed on Ebay which seems extremely high. When things were going well on that site, like three years ago when the economy was doing well, I can remember something like 13 pages on a good day. I don't know what that's all about.

[1969chargerrtse]

Well, I'm sorry but I don't have the same complaints.   I wanted to dig money up to apply it towards my expensive dash restoration so I went out to the garage and grabbed 3 Charger items sitting on the self.  1 week later I had 440.00  So I paid some selling and Pay Pal fees?  I'm bidding on ebay now for Charger parts, I've sold with ebay since day one, and I love it.  No complaints here.  It ain't a perfect world, bad things happen, but overall I have made a fortune on ebay. 

[b5blue]

I see your point and I do buy stuff, but I really don't have anything to sell, in my house it's eat it all, wear it out or break it!!!(I did see that Bill did do well on some parts last week, I was rooting for him!) I got a Beach Boys CD for 2 bucks that was listed buy it now or best offer, it cracked me up come on 2 bucks or best offer.....He was happy and so was I but it sounds like you guys just have allot of extra stuff. I just have my Charger and nothing extra, worth much to sell. I would have to actively find and buy stuff to sell and now it's getting more complicated and fees are chewing up your margins.

[bull]

I was just on today trying to leave neutral feedback on someone who charged me 4 times actual shipping, used piss-poor packaging and lousy communication and it wouldn't let me do it. You apparently can't even leave neutral feedback now. So I left no feedback and instead sent them a complaint through Ebay email. What a joke. What's the point of having feedback at all if it all has to be positive? There's no incentive to do the right thing otherwise.

[b5blue]

You gotta be able to leave feed back!Blast off a bitch out to customer support and they will get back to you, I reamed them out about not having an "other" category in their "problem with section" and my buddy called to day and said they added one already! I'd be hot if that happened to me!   

[quapman]

Customer support? WHAT customer support?

Anybody who has sold on fleebay for two years or more (nine for me now) knows more than the MORONS at fleecebay. The live help is a joke and is slower than the service at Applebee's!

To be a seller on ebay and have NO complaints is a fantasy. Fees keep going up as service swirls down the toilet. The Paypal ONLY thing is the super double whammy. Fleecebay now takes 15-20% of the item's selling price. I guess a $2,000,000 a day profit wasn't enough. Thank you, Korporate Amerika.

I've been trying other selling venues and have had little success. I will have to force myself once again to go through the nightmare that feebay is in order to get the prices for my parts that I feel are fair. I would rather get seven root canals, but fleebay pays better.

The point about having to pay Pay(not my)pal's fees on shipping is a GOOD ONE! Why pay a percentage of something that has NO profit? I have always felt that making money on shipping is morally corrupt and charge only what I pay or a very good estimate. It's also against feebay's policy to pass the Paypal fees on to the seller.

Ebay was awesome back when the listing format was ONE, short page. Anybody remember THAT?


Steve

[squeakfinder]

Customer support? WHAT customer support?

Anybody who has sold on fleebay for two years or more (nine for me now) knows more than the MORONS at fleecebay. The live help is a joke and is slower than the service at Applebee's!

To be a seller on ebay and have NO complaints is a fantasy. Fees keep going up as service swirls down the toilet. The Paypal ONLY thing is the super double whammy. Fleecebay now takes 15-20% of the item's selling price. I guess a $2,000,000 a day profit wasn't enough. Thank you, Korporate Amerika.

I've been trying other selling venues and have had little success. I will have to force myself once again to go through the nightmare that feebay is in order to get the prices for my parts that I feel are fair. I would rather get seven root canals, but fleebay pays better.

The point about having to pay Pay(not my)pal's fees on shipping is a GOOD ONE! Why pay a percentage of something that has NO profit? I have always felt that making money on shipping is morally corrupt and charge only what I pay or a very good estimate. It's also against feebay's policy to pass the Paypal fees on to the seller.

Ebay was awesome back when the listing format was ONE, short page. Anybody remember THAT?


Steve

It's been said monopoly's don't work. Because the company will become apathetic towards there customer's needs when they have no competition.  I think the Soviet Union would have loved feebay.

[Aero426]

Ebay's CEO is pushing the company towards something more like Amazon with a catalog of online merchandise provided by large vendors, and oh yeah, some auction items.     The small sellers are slowly and gradually being pushed away from the site through increased fees and alienation.    Trouble is, right now, for small sellers and collectibles sellers, there isn't anything to take its place.   

The single biggest change they have implemented is in the search function with "Best Match".  Their computer decides where your item fits into the search.   You might have an item ending in 5 minutes, and it's buried two or three pages down.     Buyers are generally not aware to change their default search from Best Match to Time Ending Soonest.   Best match is the new search for anything not on Ebay Motors.