[Milsurplus] [hp_agilent_equipment] Re: ebay seller caution

[John Watkins via Milsurplus]

Even for costly items, I always put my stuff up on the groups first.  I just put a price on it plus shipping and usually manage to get rid of things that I am not using that way.  I haven't ever sold anything on Ebay, but as I am downsizing my stuff, may have to do it.  This is all great info.

John  WD5ENU
 

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 From: "Daniel Koller kaboomdk at yahoo.com [hp_agilent_equipment]" <hp_agilent_equipment at yahoogroups.com>
To: "hp_agilent_equipment at yahoogroups.com" <hp_agilent_equipment at yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [hp_agilent_equipment] Re: ebay seller caution
  


  
It sounds to me that e-bay overall has become much like flying is now.   It's not that there is any one terrible thing that is killing the whole deal.  It's just the sum total of all the little annoyances that make the process extremely unsatisfying.    I still love sitting in an airplane by the window watching the ground go by beneath me from 6 miles up.  But the entire process of buying the tickets on-line, packing this in one bag and that in another bag, hauling myself to Dulles, going through the TSA poking and prodding line, waiting for the delayed aircraft, waiting *in* the delayed aircraft....   Well, by that time I wish I was staying home.  

  Somehow e-bay has turned a good thing to bad, probably mostly for their own profit.  I have to add that the biggest annoyance to me is that e-bay now charges a final value fee on the total cost including shipping.   This makes it impractical to sell something cheaply, like a vacuum tube, where the shipping ends up costing more than the tube.  In the case where you try to sell a $2 tube and it costs $10 to ship, you actually do lose money.   So, I throw them out or offer them on the groups here for cost of shipping.

  It's a shame.

 Dan
 


On Friday, June 27, 2014 8:48 AM, "'Richard R. Pope' mechanic_2 at charter.net [hp_agilent_equipment]" <hp_agilent_equipment at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
  

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>Chuck,
>    When did they start these actions? I never had any funds held
      back in my paypal account. I also never had any discounts removed
      for bad feedback or for people using the messaging system. No
      wonder they pushed for hiding that you will accept payment methods
      other than paypal and they made it where you can't put your email
      in with your listings. That was two of the rules that were changed
      just before I quit being a seller on ebay.
>Thanks,
>rich!
>P.S. I'm glad that I'm out.
>rich!
>
>On 6/27/2014 7:24 AM, Chuck Harris cfharris at erols.com [hp_agilent_equipment] wrote:
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>>Hi David,
>>
>>It isn't the buyer's lassitude at making a payment that is
              being
>>discussed. It is the seller's ability to remove said
              payment from
>>his paypal account after the buyer has paid that is the
              problem.
>>
>>If the seller gets any, and I mean any, negative feedback,
              he is put
>>on a 30 day hold for removing funds from his account. What
              I mean
>>by that is they make sure that his account contains the
              entire amount
>>he has been paid for the last 30 days before he can
              withdraw the funds.
>>
>>The funds that are held are not just for the negative
              feedback sale,
>>but for all sales for the next month.
>>
>>The same goes for not getting 5 stars on all transactions.
              If you lose
>>a single star, your funds will be held, and you will lose
              any ebay
>>   
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