- Their site loads like 1998. It loads so slowly. They hire 1,000s of H1-B employees only to never put any effort in whether the site can load. The wait time is always 5-10 seconds a page.
- Site hasn’t improved in 26 years. It’s the same shit site they launched with. Even searching for something as buyers takes forever to load.
- Fuckers take 13% per sale. One year I lost $4,000 in their dumb fee. You lose so much just selling anything on there between the shipping and the fee.
- Shipping costs go up every few months to the point where it’s now $6.30 for a 4 OZ (OUNCE!!!!) item. That’s so fucking light you can’t even feel it. But still $6.30. One year I spent $3,000 on shipping. This isn’t ebay’s fault but that combined with the 13% fee makes $60 losses on a damn item and a more expensive item is like $100-200 losses vs. selling in person.
- Cover everything in lame notifications on every page. You have to click to turn them off all the time. Then they’re always there every time you visit.
- Spam you with stupid emails that you can’t opt out of.
- Spam you with stupid notifications and alerts you can’t opt out of.
- Every time you call customer service, it’s an Indian person who never sides with the seller, no matter how bad the stealing is. Their entire system is “fuck the seller.” The indian employees even face off against each other. Person 1 says OK, Person 2 says NO, Person 3 says OK. They’re not even consistent.
- Got rid of negative feedback for buyers. So a shit buyer with 0 feedback is just as good as a good buyer with 6,000 feedback. Sellers can’t flame buyers anymore. You can’t even go, I only want to sell to 5+ feedback buyers. You can’t even leave feedback on a stealing buyer to let other sellers know the person is a thief. The stealing buyers can rob 5+ people before they are caught. Then they just create a new account. The only workaround is to leave “positive” feedback, then flame them, which is apparently against the rules.
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The only thing sellers can do is block a person after they’re robbed by them, but the assholes just create a new account and do it again.
- Buyers can do chargebacks then ebay comes after the seller.
- Sellers are forced to sell to 0 feedback customers. So someone creates a burner account with a fake/stolen credit card, and you’re forced to sell to them. Then ebay protects the thief buyer throughout the entire process.
- Ebay lets buyers RETURN SOMETHING while it’s still being shipped. The buyer lies about the return reason and gets a return before the damn item is even delivered to them. They say there’s something wrong with the item before it even arrives. Ebay should close the return at that point but they just let the person return something. You point out to ebay that they’re lying, they don’t care. They side with the buyer’s lie.
- Ebay protects the buyer scammers who: say the item never arrived, return a broken item, or a different item after buying and receiving the good item. Ebay forces the seller to just take that THIEVING. The entire system is set up to reward people stealing on eBay. One guy bought a $600 item and returned a $300 broken item. Ebay wants the seller just to be ok with $500+ losses PER SALE!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Any high-end sale of $300-500, there’s a 70% chance (made up) of being robbed. You pray each time that you’re not robbed. If you sell high-risk items like iphones, video game systems, etc, you’re really fucked.
- Ebay allows businesses to copyright claim you and shut down your sale if they want to sell the item themselves. So you have a new item and then the company comes after you and says “Authorizes sellers only” and ebay backs them. You have to lie/hide your sale.