posted on December 3, 2000 11:12:49 AM
canvid -Don't waste your time writing to the Arrogance Supreme Department of ebay. Trust me if you thought the safeharbor emails were insulting wait till you see what those wonderful individuals send you. On the same note also keep in mind that the average corporations's corporate counsel department is primarily staffed with lawyers who can't pass the bar of their respective states. So for the most part they fleece work out to actual law firms who do the real legal stuff.
So let it go my friend and focus on your ebay business. While you are focusing on your ebay business work a little on your Customer Service Skills with buyers and refiningyour operations so you can effectively buy and sell without accidently overlooking auctions that you have won to avoid the NPB stuff.
posted on December 3, 2000 11:38:30 AM
I thought about that Networker but Ebay has done this before to me and others. What really got me was spending time listing new auctions.
I hadn't sold on Ebay for months and months and then two days in, with lots of bids, boom. They suspended my reinstated account.
I could just drop things and go on but then I list and bid and boom, maybe they suspend me again?
It just doesn't mention arbitrary suspension and reinstatement of accounts in the Ebay user agreement.
I, like many folks, don't like being bullied and pushed around.
All I have asked them for was to correct their wrong. I sent that email on Thursday and reiterated it in several replies.
I gave them until Tuesday. Maybe they will reply. I will leave updates no matter what for good or bad. Maybe I'll be the squeaky wheel that's oiled, maybe not. But I sure have racked up alot of action on the Auctionwatch boards!
posted on December 4, 2000 05:10:25 AMThe bids are way down
Not for me.
...the fees are way up.
Last time I checked, listing and FVFs were the same as a year ago (and I think even longer than that). If you NEED to add bells and whistles to your auctions, maybe so. But otherwise, the only way I can see fees being "way up" is if one's high bids have increased.
Maybe you could explain that, as well as how, given the unbelievably high failure rate of .coms, spending the time and $ to operate one's own website and fishing - SOMEwhere - for hits is preferable to paying an average 8%/sale to have access to the hits of a megasite like ebay. You really think opening up a shop in the suburbs of Nowheresville - even if that shop's rent- free - is preferable to renting a space in highly-trafficked Supermall USA?
posted on December 4, 2000 09:34:55 AM
Actually I was buying mostly on Ebay and selling on other sites. I don't know what that says about Ebay? My thinking is that the balance has shifted to too many sellers?
