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> I hope eBay, Paypal and Yelp are next. For ten years I sold things on eBay about 5-6 times a year. It wasn't a business at all. Basically if I had an old pho

> I hope eBay, Paypal and Yelp are next. For ten years I sold things on eBay about 5-6 times a year. It wasn't a business at all. Basically if I had an old phone or a laptop, I'd put it on eBay and get a few bucks for it. Around 2008 or so, I noticed that eBay's policies had shifted, so that sellers were at the mercy of the buyers. My last straw was when I sold a phone to someone. I'd paid $500 for the phone. I'd used it for a year. I sold it on eBay for $40. I'd spent $15 on shipping. If everything went lick clockwork, I'd make $20 for the sale, which was peanuts since I'd spent 2-3 hours posting the ad and shipping the phone. The person who bought the phone couldn't figure out how to turn the phone on. I got their email, and I responded to their complaint in exactly nine minutes. In the span of nine minutes, they raged out, and clicked some button on eBay to complain about me. Like, I get it, if I ignore your email for a week, that's not cool. I responded to them in nine minutes. Their complaint resulted in my perfect eBay score being lowered, and they got a refund. Stuff like that just completely burned me out on eBay. They only seem to be interested in maximizing the number of customers on their platform and don't seem to care about keeping their sellers happy. And without sellers, eBay wouldn't exist.

411111111111111 6y ago
about 10 yrs ago, i went through my old tech and thought to myself: maybe somebody can still use any of this stuff? things like a joystick, old ddr-ram for the first gen iMac and similar. i expected to make no money from it at all, basically just wanted to give it away. people did bid on it, so i thought to myself: nice, i don't have to feel bad about throwing working tech in the bin... well, after the second article with retarded complaints about shipping (i used old packaging from amazon deliveries iirc) i just thought to myself: screw this! I cancelled all other pending auctions and threw them away. Just not worth the effort. especially if you're only doing it for moral reasons.
dehrmann 6y ago
> I noticed that eBay's policies had shifted, so that sellers were at the mercy of the buyers. I listed an old video card with something like "FOR PARTS" in the title but accidentally tagged it as used. The buyer complained, I said the title and verbal description clearly said it's broken and for parts. eBay ruled in the buyer's favor. Admittedly, it's awkward because I had a listing mistake, and the buyer probably thought they found a deal (the card was half the price of a working one) and didn't read, so we were both in the wrong, I guess, but the buyer and eBay didn't see it that way. I wish I could really quit eBay, but instead my threshold for something being worth my trouble is now about $60.

411111111111111 6y ago

about 10 yrs ago, i went through my old tech and thought to myself: maybe somebody can still use any of this stuff? things like a joystick, old ddr-ram for the first gen iMac and similar. i expected to make no money from it at all, basically just wanted to give it away. people did bid on it, so i thought to myself: nice, i don't have to feel bad about throwing working tech in the bin... well, after the second article with retarded complaints about shipping (i used old packaging from amazon deliveries iirc) i just thought to myself: screw this! I cancelled all other pending auctions and threw them away. Just not worth the effort. especially if you're only doing it for moral reasons.

dehrmann 6y ago

> I noticed that eBay's policies had shifted, so that sellers were at the mercy of the buyers. I listed an old video card with something like "FOR PARTS" in the title but accidentally tagged it as used. The buyer complained, I said the title and verbal description clearly said it's broken and for parts. eBay ruled in the buyer's favor. Admittedly, it's awkward because I had a listing mistake, and the buyer probably thought they found a deal (the card was half the price of a working one) and didn't read, so we were both in the wrong, I guess, but the buyer and eBay didn't see it that way. I wish I could really quit eBay, but instead my threshold for something being worth my trouble is now about $60.