Death by wedgies to all who abuse the wonder that is Ebay!

Hey there's an idea!!

How about their feedback levels, Jeff? Might want to make sure you include a disclaimer about not having to continue dealing with post-auction deadbeats based on low or negative feedback.

Just a thought.

People just don't take responsibility for their actions anymore. It shouldn't have to be up to eBay to keep everyone in line. :(

I've never used e Bay. It kind of scares me. And, I'm afraid I'll get addicted.

Send them a virus!

Lauren, I guarantee you would.

We showed Traci how to use it back in college. That was four years ago. She's still on there, buying something new almost on a weekly basis. :)

Keep away.....keep away.... before you know it, you'll have billions of feedback points and the eBay tshirt or something crazy like that.

Lauren, I bet you would! We showed Traci how to use it back in college. That was four years ago. She's still on there, buying something new almost on a weekly basis. :)

Keep away.....keep away.... before you know it, you'll have billions of feedback points and the eBay tshirt or something crazy like that.

crap.

Brian, you forgot about the apples and nipples. It's APPLE NIPPLE crap. Trifecta!

I had a horrible experience with a so-called "power seller". I made an immediate $220 payment for an item 6 months ago. The seller claimed the item as "stolen" by the shipping agent. Since then, I have been in a virtual battle to get money back from this guy. He disappears for weeks on end without any communication and gives excuse after excuse why he can't currently refund the money. (He admitted to having the insurance check at least 3 months ago.) Personally, because of this and another sub-par experience, I will NEVER be doing any business - selling or buying - on eBay again.

Sellers beware - Ebay only cares about one thing - money. If something doesn't make them some cold hard cash you can forget about it. if you plan to sell on Ebay forget about having an easy time. Ebay is swamped with time wasters these days and if a bidder doesn't pay for an item, ebay's opinion is tough s**t - pay us. For any of those who have evr tried to get a refund forget about it. You have to wait 3 days to send a payment reminder, 7 days to file a report, 14 days to file a claim but no more than 60 days to get your money back. Does this sound like the behaviour of a company who's willing to give a refund. Ebay is one of the only companies that I can think of that doesn't publish a single telephone number. THEY DON'T WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU so don't waste your time. You can email them and around 50% of your emails will receive a resonse - always signed customer service and always from an address you can't reply to. Have a look round boot sales and charity shops if there's something you want and save a fortune on Paypal fees and postage.

Here are two prime candidates (IMO) for the absolute best alternatives to PayPal and Ebay:

WWW.UNICLEAR.COM
UniClear offers real-time, global, transaction solutions to businesses and consumers while maintaining the highest level of integrity, security, and customer service. If you want a REAL alternative to PayPal use UniClear. They are taking on PayPal at full speed and growing rapidly. UNICLEAR has saved me hundreds of dollars on transaction fees already. The most they will ever charge you is 1 dollar, yup just one buck!

WWW.ENDEBAY.COM
Mad at Ebay? Use: www.ENDEbay.com . I was suspended from Ebay for bogus reasons and just recently found this new site. I think it is less than 2 weeks old as of now so I concider myself lucky to have found it. Now I can start listing items again and make a statement to Ebay at the same time! I really hope this site does well, I don't see why it would'nt. It's really nice, easy to use and has more features like listing for up to one year. One whole year, so I dont mind being amongst the first members to list items. Let's see Ebay do that! Also Endebay.com just launched their Elite Stores for 10 dollars a month, and after looking at the first three stores they put out I am definately buying one! These things put Ebay stores to shame, and in a bad way.

Oh yah! I almost forgot to tell you all about the best part about www.ENDEBAY.com. This auction website shares 25% of all monthly profits with members! So if the site makes $10,000.00 in profit one month they give $2,500.00 back to it's members! Again, let's see Ebay auctions do that! I hope to be one of the very first members to get a chunk of this new auction websites profit share as there will surely be more and more members trying to get a peice of the cash as the site grows. Really a genius concept (IMO).

Take care everyone. Remember to love eachother and be nice to eachother.

Have you heard about onlineauction.com? It is a new site that is designed to give ebay a run for their money. You can buy, sell and list as many items as you like for just 8.00 per month. There are no final value fees and no hidden fees.

Hello, has anyone heard about onlineauction.com? It is a new site that is designed to give ebay a run for their money. You can list, buy and sell as many items as you like for just 8.00 per month. There are no final value fees and no hidden fees.

Ebay sucks because they purposely cheat the (buyer) bidders on a routine base, here’s how.

When you do decide to bid on an item you will have to select the bid now button, when you do place a bid it often tells you that your bid is currently the highest bid but the reserve has not been met. Well, if this is a real auction then why does Ebay even accept bids that have not met the reserve? One of the reasons is. #1. Ebay hires outside representatives (you have seen the Spam ads in your E-mails “make extra money at home”) I call these people House of Ebay, they are all over the world, one of the duties of the representatives are to call/email so called losing bidders and try to sell the same item again so they (Ebay) can make more money off of you. A dead give away is an ad with something like “Over 675+ Bowflex’s Sold! BUY SAFE Bonded Seller!”

You might even be bidding on a Private Auction, this where (again according to Ebay) ”This is a private auction. Your identity will not be disclosed to anyone except the seller. If you are already bidding on this item, view your bidder status”. Humm…. So is this why I get E-mails from other sellers…as Ebay continues, “When a seller chooses to make an auction private, the User IDs of bidders is not displayed on the listing. The seller is able to view the User ID of only the high bidder during the listing, and only the winning bidder when the listing ends. In a Buy It Now listing, Private Auction hides the identity of the buyer from everyone except the seller”…. Interesting, so what if House of Ebay is the seller? Another thing that Ebay states about the bidding process is “Shill bidding: Shill bidding is the deliberate use of secondary registrations, aliases, family members, friends, or associates to artificially drive up the bid price of an item. (This is also known as "bid padding.") Shill bidding is strictly forbidden on Ebay. Ebay members found shill bidding may receive warnings or indefinite suspensions of their accounts.” Unless you’re House of Ebay. And Ebay never enforces it either.

One last scam that House of Ebay is proud of, if you ever have seen an item advertised as something to the effect: Item location: God Bless America! Or Ships to: United States. Be very careful of these ads they are from out of the country and you’ll never get you money back, if you are bidding on an item that is not within 500 miles or are not worth the driving over to view it in person, then you shouldn’t be considering purchasing the item, unless you want to just risk losing the money.

And last but not least, if you see this Shipping costs: US $160.00 - UPS Ground (within United States) do not fall for this, the seller or House of Ebay adds a profit to the shipping too. So check if not with UPS then another shipping company for a quote, you just might be amazed at the difference.

After many years as a seller on ebay I am done with their insanity. Bid for free, sell for free and we even give up to $5.00 cashback rebates to buyers and up to $225.00 cashback rebates to sellers. Go to our site for the details. www.smartsauctions.com

Some of the sellers there DESERVE to get ripped off by Ebay! After all, when you sell merchandise at double or triple the price of online retailers, you are really ripping off the bidder who might not know enough to shop around at legit online stores for a better price. So to all the sellers who engage in this practice (and believe me I've found the vast majority doing it) I say it's great that Ebay is raising prices and ripping YOU off for a change! It's all about karma!

i used to think i was working for me but now realize i am working for them.they are a very greedy company and have gotten rich.i have no problem with that but its they way they got there that sux. there isnt any integrity about them at all really they are just another corporate america mentality. eventually it will come up and bite them in the ass. greed and lust for power always backfires somewhere. people will just quit buying and selling there because of the outrageous fees and poor customer service.this is kinda how it works.... you have been a seller for 5 yrs.. this used to be great! now? list 50 items a mo and maybe sell four of them.chances are at least one person will flake on you on either the buy or sell end.hours 120 a month of your time making them money. fees 1-400 a mo[whether u sell anything or not and then add paypal.. another greedy bad co thats in bed with ebay.[a real clusterfuck] 100 a mo or so to them.pretty soon you realize that all you are doing is making pennies for yourself.and then not only do you have the ebay exec clowns you got the general public 90 percent of them are corporate clowns too remember.. dumb questions, ridicoulous expectations, a million and one idi0syncrasies! deadbeat bidders, scam artist sellers, shipping scalpers,phony paper,your check is in the mail uh huh.. the no resposnse,s the exuses[a ton of em] the feeback crap[statistics and lies and more lies] the filing for this and that process..waiting in lines, shill bids, insurance, rules ,regulations ,offending someone, etc etc etc and then you got the usps,ups fedex etc etc and more exuses and incompetence people now will do anything for a buck ![even sell you a used fuck doll [and advertise it as new] wheres the integrity? the one im the most tired of is shipping costs too much.... well how bout ebay shipping co? lol they aint that dumb are they? dont get me wrong ebay has been a good thing but theres always someone who takes a good idea and phucks it all up... just like the television set and the telephone great ideas at first but look what happened to them.ebay has turned into a swap meet mentality! yes its true there is a sucker born every minite!