EBAY is a Ghost Town !!! Where is Everyone?

i sell books and vintage stuff on etsy.

ebay sucks.

Yeah mang eBay is dead, noticed it myself.

The yard sale is going to make a comeback.

Yes it must be bad--i have a store and all auctions -bid format are free to list for the whole month of march--and i havent used it-as there are few buyers.

Sellers fees close to 10% have driven prices to high. To much fake crap to sift through.

Yep. They did this to themselves.

i like youtube cuz you can rip the mp3s out of the music vids with fire fox...better than the napster days

I used to buy some really awesome 18th century furniture and accessories from sellers in New England, until I bought a pair of Candlesticks that appeared from the pictures to be late 18th century, down to the seams, and the push ups on the bottoms, etc. and they turned out to be Chinese fakes. These aren't your normal 20.00 sticks, but go for $150-200 Each if they are real. I paid appx. $388.70 after all of the bids, and they were fake. I should have known, because identical pairs are very difficult to find together. I could not get me money back, even though I paid through Paypal, and within a couple weeks the sellers account was no longer active.

Prior to this, their feedback was at I think 98.7%, but all of a sudden, several people who had recently bought from them left negatives, so I wasn't the only one they screwed.

That is only one of a few unpleasant experiences, but the above was the worst, and cost me the most money.

Amazon.com and Etsy.com.

Oh, the stories we could tell.

i stop using ebay for craig's list

I quit using eBay for every reason listed so far, and many more. My pet peeve is having to send delivery confirmation and signature required per sale out of pocket after having buyers claim they never got what I shipped. Then have eBay go into my account and remove my money and refund the client without hearing my side of the problem.

Fuck eBay, fuck PayPal, since 2003

People are fed up with the scammers

I am deciding if it depresses me or I find it positive that you sit there and look at the same exact shit I do on ebay when your bored. When I am really bored I look for original revolutionary war signatures on ebay.

Yup, amazon is the new deal.

Ebay is a corporation now and only supports OTHER corporations.

Advertisements, 50% off deals on common household items, practically just another output for worldwide merchandise that is produced in the factories, by the corps themselves.

Once you achieve a certain influential or financial status in this world, you will have no other choice but to play to the tune of those who have an even higher status than you do. And at that point the original merchandise you were offering to the people becomes obsolete and is quickly transformed into a hyped up package with no real product inside it.

And there's no point in further discussing this either, cause everyone who knows this knows how it is, nothing more to say.

I was on ebay for 5 years but recently I canceled my account because of they fucked it all up. I tried to cancel my account and they told me my account will be on there database because im a "valued" customer. WTF is that shit. My profile and everything is stuck on their database.

I shop on Amazon now.

Because everyone became suntards. Who cares about eBay when you have triangles opening portals on the suns core from thy nibiruians.

i still use ebay but i think its a slow season

You kids weren't around using the Internet in the 90's. It was the wild wild west.

Craigslist is free and easier to search. Enough said.

they made it to where if you wanted to sell there you basically were their employee.

I quit back in '05 with power seller status.

I made my living there for 7 years.
workin for a corp rat now.
i will be back.
good place ta buy silver dollars and liberty halves

Very true about silver coins. I'm on Ebay almost daily looking to buy common date silver coins as bullion. People are bidding them up to outrageous prices. I don't mind going 20x spot on American silver but some people are going 30x or more.

great site for casual coin buyers
www.coinflation.com
melt, numismatic, values and ebay auction items

OP- out of circulation silver coin of the USA is rich in fremasonic and mystery iconography.
fantastic artists the old engravers.

money you could trust and it bought a lot!

It has been pretty quiet on most of my auctions the last two months. I still get the "watchers" on the items, but it seems like the actual bids have dried up. I think people are running out of money. (Walmart sales were showing this discovery last year too). Personally, I have been buying other ebay items though.

ebay is a greedy greedy piece of crap company. They took a good thing and ruined it with stupid features and bullshit and GREED. Now they screw sellers coming and going and won't step in to stop illegal competition from China.

Fee's and over saturation of wholesale prices of goods has ruined ebay. A lot of people are leaving and being spread out to alternative sites,etc like ebay. I use to do a lot of selling on ebay ..mainly sports memorabilia and bobble heads..would be in bulk wholesale and resell on ebay..business was good and suddenly everything went down hill after ebay got overly saturated with other sellers selling bobble heads and eventually another seller will get pissed off that your selling your item cheaper and selling more than they are and will resort to shady practices to find ways to get bad feedback on your account and/or file disputes with paypal in order to get you shut down. I caught a few guys doing this to me and i finally got ebay/paypal to see these people were purposely trying to hurt my ebay reputation ..they eventually got kicked out of ebay..but not all get caught..so if your in it to make big money..its going to be hell to stay successful now days.

Also as i mentioned..the fee's from both ebay and paypal are very unfair and quite honestly..shady. I finally said enough with this BS and left..i had a good standing account since 2003 with ebay and paypal..i still have it but im done with ebay. I still buy items on ebay once in a great while if i find a good deal ..but most of my buying and selling is done on amazon now..they are more fair compared to ebay and you do not gotta deal with all the immature sellers trying to knock you off neither..

When the population grows. so does the number of misfits and troublemakers. I realized with sadness that population growth cannot be ongoing when the percentage of troublemakers gets larger.

Craiglists is a bunch of fraudsters also. My Friend stuck his foot in , trying it out and Fraudsters came out of the woodwork in droves.

Its a sad, sad, corrupt world.

Thank you, my next collectable, =) Im a hoarder big time, I love unique pieces.

I just sold a snowboard and some tech related stuff, made what I expected and no relists.

I would think more people would be looking for better deals in this economy? Interesting observation nonetheless...