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[meganbmoore]

You know, before ebay fixed it so that sellers couldn't leave neutral or negative feedback, I actually dealt with civil people there.

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[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Buyers can still leave negative fb, just not sellers. So if someone jerks you around for ages and never pays, you can't warn others. Fun!

As a seller, I may not lose a huge amount of money if I put up and auction and the buyer never comes through, as I will at least get my closing fees refunded (assuming I report it soon enough; if I trust the buyer and give them several chances to pay, I may miss the cut off point to report them by the time I finally realise they have no intention of doing so), but I am still out the listing fees, and of course my time and energy to write up listings, photograph items, try to chase down buyers, etc.

eBay has basically been slowly moving towards an increasingly anti-seller policy over the past few years, which assumes all sellers are scammers and thus buyers must be protected from them.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. Still seems dumb, though.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Ever since it went into effect, every email I've received has included a threat.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

;_;

The last time I sold a bunch of stuff was last fall, which was right before this most recent batch of changes. I noticed a much higher percentage of entitled jerks even then.

Plus I noticed that I had been rated down on the five star thing for shipping. I ship next day after people pay, and I charge only the amount of shipping, usually not even covering any packing supplies, because I know that's a cost that customers don't think about (even though packing supplies are quite expensive) and thus see as overcharge. So why am I getting rated down for shipping? What could I possibly have done better that they are complaining about? And of course it's anon, so I can't see who it is, and I have no recourse for rebuttal.

I have a bunch of stuff piling up here that I would like to sell eventually, but I am going to try and sell as much of it on LJ as I can, with eBay as a last resort.