The hot topic on the ebid's board at the moment is the introduction of free P&P on media items and the migration of buyers and sellers to ebid.net. Ebay's chat boards are often controversial and it has its more than fair share of overopiniated people, ebay 'police', nosey do-gooders, and from time to time you will actually find something useful there that doesn't involove some sort of scrap between a belligerent long-standing member and a newbie I haven't really had dealings with ebay chat boards for a few years as I gave up being a permanent buyer and seller on ebay in preference of: ebid.net However I have had an interest ...  Read the complete review

The ebay chat boards are an interesting mixture of information, help if you ask nicely, outrageous egos, general pottiness and on the Round Table board chaotic chattiness. They are not policed well, Liveworld, who host the boards, have a strange policy of removing any thread that's reported (i.e smilies. Go figure!) and leaving on highly offensive material until it drops off the bottom of the page. So if you enrage a fellow member who is vindictive or mad or both, you can get button pushed (reported) off the board. Because of this if you are going to post often, it is a very good idea to get yourself a different posting identity. It is possible to get a lot of ...  Read the complete review

I have been an ebay member since may 2005 and have never had any real problem from other users regarding buying or selling items. untill a week ago. i sold an item on ebay and the buyer, who looks to be a newbee and has 0 feedback has not contacted me since the auction end and has not paid. i have sent emails etc and ihave contacted ebay to see if thay can help me out. its very frustrating sitting waiting for a response, which i doubt will ever come. and ebay are not much help, it seems they send automated emails out in response to questions which isnt ideal. i dont know weather to just cut my losses and re-list the item or wait it out and see ...  Read the complete review

After almost four years of buying and selling on the biggest online auction, I have managed do find lots of problems with it. Don’t get me wrong, there are good Ebayer’s, the people that are always there to help, understand that we are only human, but for every one of them there are ten bad Ebayer’s. After losing nearly £400, and getting no where fast with Ebay help, I have decided to limit myself to only buying cheap things, like DVDs, Cds, VHS, Books and other things under £30. My advice to all new Ebayers is check the sellers feedback, and if buying DVDs etc, check there not fakes. Ebay’s help system is also a waste of ...  Read the complete review

I have been both a buyer and seller on eBay for about 8 months now and one day while waiting for my a couple of my eBay auctions to finish one day I thought I would have a little roam around the eBay site. Loads of funny little features that you would have no idea how to use, so I clicked on the ?Community? link to see what that was about. There I found several message boards with titles such as The round table and Community questions and answers, payments and postage, categories etc etc. So, as a newbie to the site I thought it might be an idea to check some of the posts out. I visited the Payments and postage one first, being one of the topics that always ...  Read the complete review