NOW if this happened today he would have been able to hold my account ‘hostage’ in a matter of speaking. As a small seller or rare stuff I cant take a neg hit like a power seller of new generic crappy stuff…..

I just finished talking to ebay staff and its all true! Soooo I have decided to take my newly discovered horde of collectible toys and comics from my attic and find other auction sites and methods to sell it NOT by ebay. It seems that ebay is good to stay on only as a buyer.

I have founda few sites any ideas out there?

PS ebay’s new tactic will be felt over the next few years as honest but smaller sellers who feel an unfair neg harder then the power seller who can bury it with masses of sales, leave ebay. This will favor bigger sellers who sell less collectible more available general retail stuff. In other words the Walmartizing of ebay.

Eg. I have some rare toys why sell them on ebay and take an unfair neg hit when some power seller can sell thousands of current easily available toys, take the occasional unfair hit, and keep going.

If you are a smaller seller even a few negs stands out on your account. And you cant just become a ‘big seller’ if you are selling rare stuff (ie not readily available) and you dont have a retail licnese to sell the new stuff (which every other seller would sell).

So eventually WalMart mindset will overtake Ebay and ebay stock will plunge. Right now its too early to see it but believe u me it will trickle down to the small honest sellers and they will leave in droves.

i think it’s about time. if a buyer pays on time, they have done their job. they don’t need feedback to show this.

If only all buyers did their job as simply as you just made it sound, it would be great! For about a year, Ryan and I ran an eBay business for a guy who did it as his living. We sold and shipped hundreds of items every single week. Just as there are bad sellers, there too are bad buyers.

To give you an idea of the “bad buyers” out there, we had those who simply wouldn’t pay, those who complained shipping was too slow when items were shipped the day of or the day following the purchase (just to try and get money back), those who made unreasonable demands, those who didn’t read the auction completely and then complained about what they received and demanded partial or full refunds (even though it was clearly stated in a listing), and the list goes on.

Now that we just sell an item or two on occasion, we don’t really run into these issues but for those who sell hundreds and thousands of items regularly like we did, you really run into all kinds of buyers who aren’t honest. After my experience dealing with a select handful of buyers who proved to be a nightmare, sellers should be able to leave negative feedback for buyers so that other sellers are warned about potential problems just as negative feedback for sellers warns other buyers.