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

Some buyers on EBAY are spending money, especially high end antiques and vintage costume jewelery. For example, an Augarten spanish rider sold for $510 with 10 bidders and this was on March 30, 2012. Another Augarten sold for $900 on a buy it now on April 4,2012. However, when you consider the fees that these sellers had to dish out, their profit margins are around 30%. So, to make money they have to upload 100's of items in order to make a net profit. Even in 2005, when I was selling on EBAY, I was loosing money. I made $1000 in one month and EBAY took $300, leaving me with a net profit of only $700.

I guess it really on what you are selling. It seems that antiques and vintage items are doing well. However, there are so many other places that one can sell that have little or no fees. So, in some cases it makes more sense to sell directly from either your own website or directly to the consumer via craigslist.

to give you an example ....

if you buy an item for £50 .... and sell it on ebay for £100

You only make £12 profit after ebay fees and paypal fees ...(assuming you don't rip off the buyer with shipping costs)

but bear in mind, it can take you 30 min to photograph the item, do the research and create the ebay listing/advert .... plus you have the stress

I loved it when I could buy an item for 5 and sell for 50 or produce something for about 25p and sell it for 5. Ebay fees and pain were reasonable then. Other than that I'm with you, it's not worth the pain other than to get a few things out of the house.

Ebay killed themselves. Because they were stupid and greedy. And there is no fixing that.

They take too much away in fees now for sellers, it's ridiculous.

Here's my biggest problem. You call a guy with horrible English answers. Ahh welcome to ebay this is Ahh how you say Ben. I'm like your name is Ben about as fuckin much as mine is jabar.

No joking. I just quit them as well. rather be a bit poorer than put up with their BS.

Used to sell on eBay, since 2003. Was a powerseller having sold over 10,000 items since 2004. Stopped selling a few months ago when they pulled my powerseller status, and my top rated status, and was no longer offering me a discount on fees. It's a rip off now.

Ahhh... finally. I'm surprised this was not noticed/spoken of earlier and more often.

You know, I used to be a big time eBayer many years ago.
To make a long story short...

I have been amazed at how DEAD eBay has become, especially in the last 3-4 years. And it has increased with each passing week since. It is shocking. There are items that I've had on my watch list for 1 year, that still remain unsold. Items that used to sell in a day or week. And the item variety available is very small compared to even 2-3 years back. Bids are rare and most definetly, less frequent and so many items go unsold.

To me, this was an early sign of the end of times. I know it sounds strange, but eBay used to be an international power house and online community. It is now DEAD. I understand that the economy plays a big factor... but it's almost like the world is CLOSING SHOP, so to speak. I could rant for pages on this subject, connecting many dots... but I just wanted to chime in.

The fact that the US postal service is pretty much shuting down and going out of business is very strange too.

It is like the world has become a ghost town.

I'll touch on the matrix aspects for a second...

If there are still relatively the same amount of people, if not more in the world, with alot of material goods... eBay should actually be doing better, in theory. Something doesn't add up. It's weird.

The US post office and eBay connection is obvious... so the question remains... what happened to all these people and all the items they had in the past few years. Why are eBay and the US post office cutting back and becoming ghost towns?

Either the economy is ALOT worse than the MSM is REVEALING... or... people are being... DELETED.

Think an EVIL RAPTURE... a purge of the matrix if you will.
It doesn't make sense, unless you think outside the box.

I think depopulation has already occured.

Strange days indeed.

Last Edited by Six Six Six on 05/22/2012 04:36 AM

ebay caters to the big stores and chinese knock offs it seems it anyways; from what iv seen
And their fees jumped insane hi
its ruined
iv listed 98 auctions and 2 sold
thats a bad ratio
After the listing fees; didnt make anything
Ebay wont be around in 5 years like this

rates are insane now
I sold a $200 item
and got charged $40 in ebay fees
they even charge a percent for the shipping cost now

iv heard most arent online these days... whats that mean ? lol

I think it is because ebay/paypal screwed everyone over and stole their money, costing them all kinds of trouble by freezing their accts for no good reason etc. I have at least 10 friends who this happened to..now none of us sell on there anymore and this was after about 5 yrs of good selling and 99 percent feedback ratings etc. It all started about 2007 to 2008 and has went down hill from there. Noone can afford to have hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars froze up indefinately for no apparent reason

I lost my store due to High as fuck fees.....Now I am extra broke and my car was repossed, my rent is due and I have two kids....Ebay can suck an egg in hell to....


Thanks to my Government, me and everyone around me is either in termoil or hungry....ASSHOLES!!!!

Right?

Plus a Million for making me LOLZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Awhile back it was so bazaar on EBay, my friend sells musical instruments and said, it cost more in EBay fees and charges than is was to sell a $100K vehicle.

ebay loves ripping off the little guys and mom-pop businesses and gives the breaks to the big business connections.

hmm looks like Donahoe made out like a bandit after he ruined it for everyone else.



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In Australia it's the postage that I think has killed ebay a lot, I love ebay as most of the family but if you find an item in UK or USA the postage makes it way too expensive.

On a few occasions there have been an item for around 5 dollars but the postage was somewhere between sixty or seventy dollars! Some sellers have free postage which is great but usually on novelty items and party decorations and so on which helps when we are looking for that stuff.

On our usual ebay purchases for things we are collecting or books the postage is what makes us decide if we bid or buy, not like a few years back, with a choice of sellers for a particular item you could also pick the best postage price which made the ebay purchase fun, now it's a lot of time just browsing ebay but never bidding or buying any more.

unless you come across a bargin, which sadly is not often now

Haha,are they still applyong their expensive fee ?

For now it's free to sell on ebay.

Even then, be careful.

I've been watching 18k chains, a few of them are definitely real...another few, not so much. And I always keep my settings to North America.

Not sure if the people buying the fake 18k just don't know any better or if they realize it's fake & don't care, as it's a pretty good looking fake.

Also, not sure if the sellers know or not.

But I can tell from photos, 99% of the time. Many times, the cclasp alone is a clue. You just do not see a cheap ass springring clasp on a heavy, 20+ gr chain. At least, not where I come from.

If I'm not 100% certain, I dont buy.

Only buy 'buy now' items. Do not like auctions as i end up paying more than necessary for items. If you want cheap used stuff, we got Gumtree here in uk, probably Craigslist in us.

Ebay sucks with all their charges for this and that. As,a seller you don't get shit. They also treat their sellers like crap. Fuck them. I'm never selling anything on ebay again.