Wow, eBay is FFFFF....

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...rustrating!

I've been putting some stuff on to shift as its stuff not allowed in the MM.

Started off ok, but then kept telling me I had to log in every time I clicked 'Next/Continue'. Slightly annoying. It then told me that the password I had been using to log in every 5 minutes for the past hour was wrong! Did a password reset and even my new password was wrong!

Ended up clearing my cache etc.. which seemed to remedy the problem. Been working fine for the past hour, until now when its telling to log in to place my listing and not passing past that page. I enter my password time and time again and it just wont advance. Its just refreshes the page without giving me any kind of 'wrong password' message.

Bloody eBay!!

/Rant

I cant even clear my cache again I have a listing written up that I will lose. (although to be fair in the time its taken me to write this rant I could have done it)
 
arknor said:
cant believe people still use it :P
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Why wouldn't you?
Some stuff have no other valid sale places, so even after fees you make more money than from something like car boot sale.

Most problems are due to not reading eBay/paypal rules and using invalid postal methods and other such stuff as well as not having some common sense like selecting the option which only allows uk birders.

And as for buying for many products it's still the cheapest place. Again you just need to know the rules and use some common sense to avoid 99% of problems.
 
I have a business on there, its an easy selling platform and you instantly have millions of potential customers. The slight niggles you hear about on here is just like AcidHell2 says, not reading rules, not following common sense. I have had very few problems, despite 1000 transaction+ per month.
 
I keep meaning to get into eBay, as I have loads of old things to sell that are too good to throw away but all the FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU EEEEBEAY!!!!!!!! threads on here make me rather tentative!
 
Van Hellseek said:
Depends on what you're trying to sell. But if you think ebay is your only option for selling anything then... :o
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There are other places for something's like MM or a more official Market place, gumtree, but they aren't great for all items. eBay is great for pretty much everything and when I can't sell on the other places I have no hesitation to sale on eBay.
 
Its been terrible for a while. Nowadays its just people batch selling stuff at marginally lower prices than normal online retailers, there aren't many people selling bits and pieces like the old days.
 
eBay is fine if you follow the rules and use common sense, unfortunately too many horror stories come when people who really should step away from a computer don't.

For high value items, I allways just have buy it now and pick up only. Ok so it limits my potential market to maybe a 60 mile radius by not posting but that is still 1-2 million+ people.

People who use auction format then complain if it goes for a low price should simply use buy it now, not rocket science.

Sold 3 guitars recently, got the price I wanted and the buyers came 70, 140 and 35 miles to pick up respectively.
 
I use eBay all the time. Never have any problems with it. It does take some getting used to though, Ive always found selling fine too!
 
People pay way over the odds on ebay and treat second hand products almost as if buying new due to the ease of site use and seamless check out etc.

While the ebay and paypal fees are nauseous - that's kind of compensated by the extra you get.

People on gumtree seem to be more after something for nothing. Saying that I still hate selling stuff and have to motivate myself to list items thinking of the post office dread :o even though it has brought in quite a bit of cash, I struggle to bother.
 
I still use ebay because people pay way over the odds on there. Take my 5970 for example - I am actually making a profit from upgrading to a 6990 because of the nuts on ebay. A useful tip someone gave me - sell with a fixed price, the fees are less for some reason.
 
PhillyDee said:
I have a business on there, its an easy selling platform and you instantly have millions of potential customers. The slight niggles you hear about on here is just like AcidHell2 says, not reading rules, not following common sense. I have had very few problems, despite 1000 transaction+ per month.
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do you have a proper credit card based payment system on a website for your business aswell? (not the crappy paypal credit card rubbish that forces you to make a paypal account etc)

i'd be curious to know how many people find your products via ebay but then go to your site instead because they dont want to use the paypal payment system.
 
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