Ebay can fuck off, they are now charging a % on the delivery costs.
Plus they charge for Paypal {and make you have it available}
Plus the normal sellers fees.
eBay are the most despicable company.
At 24 using £400 i started my own clothes business, had 2,000 feedback 99.9% positive feedback and they closed me down. Let that sink in. 99.9% positive feedback.....and then shut me down. No warning, from "top-rated power seller" to suspended. I got an email saying my account has been indefinitely suspended without appeal. I never sold fakes, i always paid my fees and if customers were unhappy they could always return for a refund.
They don't want private sellers. They want China, India and big bulk sellers selling shite. The days of small sellers having their own business from home on eBay are gone, they make it too hard. In order to maintain "standard" status you need less than 1% of low ratings in any given category. Again, let that sink in, 1%. That's not even negative feedback, that's low DSR. You can receive positive feedback, and still get a low DSR. In 12 months i received 15 low ratings for "Item as described" which equated to 1.03%. 1% was the threshold and for that they shut down my extremely profitable business down. 0.3% and they all came from people who were happy with their items. eBay fail to recognize that despite people leaving low ratings, they were always happy or refunded.
99.9% positive feedback. If you walked down the street and said hello to 1,000 people, it'd be fair to say at least 10% would either ignore you, swear at you, or possible kick off with you. eBay fail to recognize buyers are unreasonable and even though they may have left poor feedback, as a seller, i've done everything i possibly can to help, some people just WILL NOT be satisfied.
In the next 2/3 years a massive company will create another online auction site and eBay will be well and truly fucked. They're a greedy, manipulative company and they're the only player in the market. The owners of eBay have taken their number one selling point of allowing people to start their own business to try and become Amazon. They're like the Titanic sailing towards an iceberg and it'll fucking hit it soon.
