Are You Disillusioned with Ebay?

I joined eBay about four years ago but until the last few months I had only sold a handful of items. Their complicated fee system had always put me off. However, every now and again I get an email from them inviting me to participate in special one day promotions whereby you can list auction items for free no matter what the initial auction price (you usually have to pay an insertion fee for items with an auction starting price of higher than 99p). I decided to take advantage of one of these offers in June. It gave me the opportunity to list a few more expensive items and kind of test the market to see if there was actually any demand for them out there. Although I ...  Read the complete review

In the early days of ebay I was a huge fan. I made a lot of money thanks to there only being a small amount of sellers and 10 times as many buyers. You could pretty well sell anything, and you would get good money. I personally used to buy a number of items from stores offline and sell at a great profit online. Buyers seemed to be a addicted to ebay and were buying as if items were going out of fashion. For many it was a novelty. During this time most people paid by cheques or sent cash and I was delighted when the postman came along. Other ways was by paying through your credit card through a company called paypal. Then ebay, in my opinion became greedy. They ...  Read the complete review

When Ebay first began i used to enjoy getting a bargain from there as there were a lot of people selling on things they had no use for and the best time for this used to be after christmas when everyone was selling there unwanted presents on there at realy good prices. Over the last few years not only have i noticed that the price of items are going up but also the postage costs aswell as ebay being able to change the rules willy nilly to suit them rather than the purchaser. Bafore christmas last year i was looking to pick up some last minute stocking filers for my daughters so thought i would check out Ebay, i was looking for dora the explorer in ...  Read the complete review

****Introduction**** Ebay has become a massive household name over the last 5-10 years, I was first introduced to ebay when i moved house and a neighbour recommended i sell my kitchen and sofa, basically stuff i didn't need to take but needed to be removed so the new buyer had an empty canvas. I thought she was crazy but people actually paid and came to collect my junk,that i could not be bother to remove myself. This is where my addiction started, but over the past few years i have been less likely to buy of sell on ebay as ebay themselves have become very greedy in taking the fees when you sell items and this has forced sellers to up ...  Read the complete review

I first began buying and selling on Ebay in 2003, and it was a very different experience then. Whilst I have no issue continuing to use Ebay's services for buying, selling has become a very different matter. The fees ebay have started to charge make selling low value items such as books, clothes, the general household items that you don't want anymore but don't want to bin, barely profitable. On a 99p item 49p will be taken in listing fees, final value fees, and paypal fees. Suddenly the profit is halved and the 10 mins it took to list that item is the equivalent of half minimum wage. Now most people who are selling their kids old clothes and those books they found in ...  Read the complete review