I personally hate ebay. I haven't sold anything on it for ages, and I rather drink a warm beer laced with the urine of a Thai FtM than to use it. But I still buy things off of it, because I like to build up my credit rating with small things!
- Everyone's looking for a batshit deal. If you are a buyer, you end up sniped at the last fucking second before winning an auction. If you are a seller, you can't sell anything for less than 80% of it's retail price, or you are bum fucked by a really randy penguin.
- What the hell happened to online etiquette?
- Sellers who are blantently saying - "We jacked up the shipping prices so that FeeBay doesn't charge us for everything!"
- Sellers who are anti-Canadian. A couple of sellers basically said on their auctions that they refuse to sell to "dumb Canadians" because they had a shitty experience with one not paying up.
- Fees. Ebay charges for everything - simple HTML tags to make your listing bold/italic or underlined? And the fact that they knock off like 25% of the final price into their greedy little hands.
- Shipping. I know, Canada Post needs to be buggered with a slice of reality, but really, sending a 200 gram item to Orlando shouldn't cost $15 - with tracking and packing things. It's not pleasant, when someone in the United States can slap down $5 and get it sent.
- Constantly Changing interfaces: I haven't been on ebay since 2007, and now the selling interface is pretty murky. You have to look through 3 menus, and click on a pretty graphic to get to work making the listing.
- Pictures: For everything to even think about selling, you have to have pretty pictures. This means learning about photography with a tutor or even building a lightbox to support it.
I rather sell my junk at the garage sale. At least I get the fun of watching my junk disappear and socializing with people instead of looking at poorly shot pictures of items!
- Everyone's looking for a batshit deal. If you are a buyer, you end up sniped at the last fucking second before winning an auction. If you are a seller, you can't sell anything for less than 80% of it's retail price, or you are bum fucked by a really randy penguin.
- What the hell happened to online etiquette?
- Sellers who are blantently saying - "We jacked up the shipping prices so that FeeBay doesn't charge us for everything!"
- Sellers who are anti-Canadian. A couple of sellers basically said on their auctions that they refuse to sell to "dumb Canadians" because they had a shitty experience with one not paying up.
- Fees. Ebay charges for everything - simple HTML tags to make your listing bold/italic or underlined? And the fact that they knock off like 25% of the final price into their greedy little hands.
- Shipping. I know, Canada Post needs to be buggered with a slice of reality, but really, sending a 200 gram item to Orlando shouldn't cost $15 - with tracking and packing things. It's not pleasant, when someone in the United States can slap down $5 and get it sent.
- Constantly Changing interfaces: I haven't been on ebay since 2007, and now the selling interface is pretty murky. You have to look through 3 menus, and click on a pretty graphic to get to work making the listing.
- Pictures: For everything to even think about selling, you have to have pretty pictures. This means learning about photography with a tutor or even building a lightbox to support it.
I rather sell my junk at the garage sale. At least I get the fun of watching my junk disappear and socializing with people instead of looking at poorly shot pictures of items!
