Originally Posted by Eskimo

This isn't strictly true. They don't want sellers to accept "paper" payments (checks and money orders), but accepting credit or debit cards through a merchant account is acceptable.

~~~~ their whole idea behind this is for payment to not leave their site, no more linked merchant accounts or check out software ???



The reason to sell on eBay (as opposed to through some other means) is the same now as it has always been: buyers.

~~~~ the middle of the road seller's biggest complaint is the lack of hits on their auctions, traffic is way down ~~~ the great, unusual, and rare still sell well most of the time, everything else is a crap shoot or cheapest on the block, if the buyers can find you ( new proposed rules will adjust the search options depending on your feedback and seller ratings )

It's always a question of whether the benefits of eBay outweigh the disadvantages. They're changing the way they do things in a very big way, and that will affect different sellers differently.

~~~~ been on ebay since 1999, introduced to web auction (now ebay) in 1994 and friends were selling in 1996 when any pixs were rare ~~~ have 2521 feedbacks (no negs or neutrals) with @1500 selling and @1000 buying all in different categories and quit selling 3 years ago because they started changing the rules ~~~ buy like a bandit now ~~~ a bunch of bargains if you shop

For some sellers, this latest round of changes will be "the last straw".

~~~~ i refuse to do paypal, thusly i can't buy on ebay anymore ??

For others, the low insertion fees (with higher final value fees) for fixed price listings may turn out to be a good thing. Time will tell.

~~~~ rumor has it that ebay wants to eliminate regular auctions and just do a fixed price format by next year

(For what it's worth, I think that the way they've approached the whole "Detailed Seller Ratings" system is ridiculous in a whole bunch of different ways - deeply flawed from the beginning, and only getting worse over time.

~~~~ let's see here...... fall below the 4.3 and are banned from selling till you DSR rises above that 4.3 ~~~ how can you raise your rating if you're banned from selling ??? ~~~ put your dunce cap on, stand in the corner till they say you can play in their sandbox again ~~~~~ duh


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