Another great site that’s in development: http://www.ubee.com

I agree with all these. The shrill bidding has always been a problem there and I’d like to see Ebay go down.

Craig’s list is decent since it’s all local. If someone tries to scam me, I just let them stare into my double barrel shotgun… but that hasn’t happened yet Plus the job posting area has doubled my wife’s business in the Pet Sitting arena!

Thanks again for this great post and blog.

2) Paypal holds your money

Paypal has never held any of my money, I wonder if you are in bad standing with them.

11) Ebay takes another cut

Has never happened to me, I don’t know if you are even talking about the same Ebay.com that I use.

Dugg. Probably could’ve whittled these down to 20 though. Would have liked to see some lesser known alternatives also.

Ebay is a joke I agree, there is no one to talk to for customer service just a bunch of bots. Go to amazon be happier.

CHECK OUT EBID !!! Ebid lists in 18 countries–they offer free lifetime membership–and if you are a seller get the seller PLUS lifetime membership–this will not be around for long as it is an introductory price–you will never pay a fee for listing and never pay a final value fee ever again–also try google checkout–Paypal is another greedy ebay venture that is a HUGE rip off. I just signed up for Ebid.net as a lifetime Plus seller and find the site is easier to use than ebay with less restrictions. For an up front $49. you will never ever pay a fee again for your lifetime!!!! It will take every last one of us to reject ebay and start using Ebid. It’s the best Ebay alternative out there–stop complaining and hit them where it hurts…Please do it now…I did.

From the point of the buyer who has never had any problems I accept your point , even so someone could run into trouble trying to buy without hassle.

But from a sellers viewpoint it is pure hell. With the latest addition of the DSR (average grading system) TONS of people are being forced off ebay and closing down their businesses. If you do the math there , less sellers = less competition which = higher prices for you and me.

If you've been following their stock they have been falling down in price and value which is no surprise to me. When they go out of business I'm gonna party like crazy.

Interesting. I have seen CHEAPER and BETTER eBayalternatives and I think in time many people will go elsewhere. About greed recently eBay raised their fees and it does not help when youre charge high amounts vis PayPal too. By the way Nochex.co.uk a PayPal.co.uk alternative is better and cheaper.
ebid
sellit-right
amazon
ubid
overture
etc just google for alternatives are all better and cheaper in some cases.

I haven't been on eBay for years. More than often, I found stuff reasonably priced on retailers' websites anyway. Looking for a book? One can often find a book on Amazon or B&N along with their sellers at a bargain price that eBay can't beat. And there is no waiting and the unknown future whether you are gonna get the item or not.

You are soooo right. I recently sold lots of Microsoft softwares (just like tons of other ebay sellers do) but to find out that ebay suspended my account for not having the right to sell such thing and accused me of selling counterfeits on ebay. I was like what?!? I'm just like the ordinary seller selling exactly what other ebay sellers sell on ebay. I told them there are bunch of people not having the rights as well and was told that I need to go and report the other sellers for them. Man how am I suppose to do that since there are so many of them? It is so unfair and I suspect that I must have been the unlucky one to be reported by the competitors to ebay.
And the worst thing is that after a week my account was reinstated and I listed some designer clothes up which I bought but have never been worn and still with tags on, my account got suspended straight away due to the same freakin' reason!!! This is so ridiculous!! I just can't get over with the fact that there are many of them selling the same thing and yet I am the one that gets banned! Guess what, I am now being suspended for a year! EBAY SUCKS SO MUCH!!

ebay I can live with out you like you can live with out us but remember the bigger you are harder the fall from little acorns will grow the other very fair companies from your greed and attitude towards sellers.

thank you I will give it a try any thing must be better then ebay.

absolutely anything lol

Have your seen http://www.AlternativesToEbay.com

Plenty of options there

E-BAY SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can not stress that enough!!!!!!! They try and take all our money, and YES they do hold your money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello All! I read all of your remarks and I have to agree with everyone. How is this? Well when I was just a buyer I loved it and I would do the occasional sale on ebay and thought it was the greatest. I have been with ebay and paypal for over 4 years. And I thought I would love to be a power seller and make lots of money, I had a score of 100% good feedback and a score of 600. You would think this would be an easy task. NOT!!! I did all the research and found a wholesaler to buy from, then I started to sell my video game consoles. I would like over 20 items at a time. I made good money the first 2 days and then I got shut down. Paypal froze my account wanting receipts and tracking conformations. Not a problem I though. NOT!!! I did everything paypal wanted – in the mean time ebay froze my acc too (who know why). So I have all these complaints coming in because ebay sent everyone an email saying not to trust me and file a claim against me. Well it took 5 days to fix that, then 2 days later paypal closed my acc for the rest of my life! And ebay followed suit after that. So I now have over 1000 dollars in my paypal acc and I have to wait 6 months to get MY money back. How scummy is that! I have never violated any of ebays or paypals terms or conditions. I would never do business with them again, I hope more people will realize their business ethic. Sorry for so long, this by the way has just happen to me 2 days ago. Thanks ebay and paypal – I am now not paying your high fees and have a good company to sell from.

I totally agree with this! I have been selling on eBay here and there, and buying as well. I too decided I wanted to become a power seller. So I started with selling some wholesale stuff I had purchased (non name brand), and didn’t profit too much.

Then I decided I wanted to sell some of my personal things to get my ratings higher (not a crime). I had a Louis Vuitton bag that I listed (with a documented authentication from the store and original receipt mind you). Twenty minutes after listing my bag I got an email about an account suspension. Somebody used all of my pictures, reported me, and then they said I was selling counterfeits. GREAT! The bidders were notified, it was terrible.

The same thing happened just yesterday with a Tiffany necklace of mine that has the receipt from Tiffany & Co.

However, I don’t see them doing this to powersellers who sell obvious fakes! They disgust me!!!

Guys, you are missing the point power sellers are worth more to them than us occasional sellers. That’s why they shut you down first and not the others.

First time in ages I gone to sell something to find out that I have to offer free delivery. There reason for its :-

“From 15th June sellers listing in selected categories in Video Games, Mobile & Home Phones, Consumer Electronics, Computing, Photography, and Clothes, Shoes & Accessories will be required to offer free P&P as their first domestic postage option.

Why is eBay making this change?
Excessive P&P costs are cited as a major reason for buyers spending less on eBay. Free P&P is increasingly standard on online shopping sites, and offering the same on eBay contributes to a higher rate of successful sales. To ensure
eBay remains a dynamic marketplace, we’ll be introducing the requirement to offer free P&P for listings in selected categories (see below).

How will this benefit me?
Shoppers are more likely to buy your items if the P&P is free, as buyers are increasingly used to seeing free P&P offered while shopping online.”

Why is eBay making this change?

because if you you put a small price for the object 99p and then a large delivery cost. Ebay do not get as much money. It has absolutely nothing to benefit me if I wanted to do free shipping It was my choice now It’s not. In my case I was selling a flash, could just as easily be seeing a hat which is not cheap to send as it needs to be in a proper hat box.

In Austria we always had problems with Swiss fraudsters..
(I quit ebay)

It’s true. I have been with Ebay and Paypal for over 10 years.
The changes in the last two years allowed them to hold my money on several occasions, and, the BUYER Protection plan is to protect buyers from fraud, but in doing so
removes the sellers control of their own business.
Ebay is now Big Brother.
In reality, their more concerned with the huge amounts of money they receive from sellers in China and Hong Kong.
Small sellers did a lot to build Ebay and they are now forgotten.
Unfortunately, Ebay is not recommended if your starting a shoe string business.
They have now made it so that shoe string can easily strangle you before you know what’s happening.
Upillar.com may be the answer for now.

I am about to stop selling on Ebay due to their recent requirement that anyone not holding a “Premium” store must pay 20 cents usd per item to list in their “Basic” store, whereas it was formerly only 3 cents USD. That means that my “Basic” store, which formerly cost me $24.95 USD per month and only 3 cents per item to list, now must move up tp a “Premiium” store at $45.95USD per month and 10 cents per item to list! Go figure! To top that off, if a buyer claims unhappiness with an item, Ebay just gives them their money back without question. The whole deal sucks.

I learned my lesson the hard way. A woman in England won a bid on a silver toast rack I had up for auction. She didn’t pay for six days. ($287.00)Four days after she paid, she went straight to dispute for non-receipt of item. I have a regular job and stated in my listing that I take up to four days to ship (from Texas). Long story short, eBay/PayPal sided with her from the beginning and none of the robots will listen to me or read my faxes showing the item shipped. Furthermore, PayPal dipped into my backup funding like it belonged to them for their own use. I can’t imagine using them again if this is what I can expect from them.

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I agree this happened to me to with feedback and chargeback.

eBay is just another pathetic excuse for a corporate giant. I have been waiting for a final value fee for over a month. They told me that it would be applied as credit for future selling fees. Are you F!@$#ing out of your mind eBay? I don’t want a CREDIT. I want my F!@$#ing money. A credit won’t do me any good because I can promise you, you will never see another transaction from my account you piece of S@!T.

You forgot to mention that they will find you guilty of a crime when not committing one, and ban you.
I placed some tvs on the auctions, having already ordered from what I supposed was a legitimate wholesaler, I was wrong and was scammed, all monies were paid to Paypal so I advised the people to claim their money back!! No-one lost any money, apart from me, so what was my crime??

Great article. Loved the list. Many of the shocked me. Many of them made me laugh. The auto banning after one week of being reported (7). Sounds like they simply have lost touch with their users and everything is on autopilot. Gone is good (human) customer service.

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Today may be last straw, as a powerseller with top rated status, and on ebay since 1999, Searching hard for alternative. Will not go into the HORROR story over the last couple months with ebay and paypal. However I see no real place other than developing my own website and hustling customers to it via google and etc…

Looking for a real place to sell..Any options?

Also if you report an unpaid item case, you can’t leave a negative feedback!!!! Time to switch. He is right thanks for all that

We too have been with ebay for over 9 years, are a powerseller and a TRS, and we are sick and tired of their dictatorship tactics, fed up with them messing about with clearly what they do not understand. We too over the past 12 months have a Horror Story in fact its been a huge nightmare and continues to be. Their policies change day to day without any warning apart from an email informing you that you now have a low policy compliance. We can think of nothing to say that is positive about this companies procedures, and are desperately seeking alternatives. We are with another auction site and have our own website and our items sell , with no aggrevation at all. Alas ebay still produces the most business for us so its a catch 22, “cut of your nose to spite your face”, however, at the first sign of another viable auction site we would not give ebay the time of day. The staff are ignorant, untrained, rude and non respectful. Their policies are there for the “big boys” who seem to be able to blackmail them – obviously financial benefits and their attitude to their sellers and buyers alike are absolutely shocking. Most of the time we get the impression that the left does not know what the right is doing. Customer Support can advise you one way and another Customer Support informs you it is wrong. Their search is flawed, their information now is mispelt, their wording on most of their emails gives us the idea that they are all illiterate, whatever happened to respect when contacting people, ebay say words like Hiya – this is a multi million pound company with a bad attitude. I cannot understand why ebay is not falling off the cliff, we need someone somewhere to take them on – big time. I am sure most sellers and buyers would flock to another site with the right publicity. Which now brings me to Pay Pal, after 9 years of trading as an honest, respectable company with 100% feedback, when we got a policy breach on ebay (which was not really us doing anything wrong it was a change of policy on ebays behalf) – pay pal gave us another headache and withheld our funds – it has taken many months to get sorted – so everyone out there be very very careful. You think it will not happen to you, but we can assure you any change of ebay policy can cause a nightmare and one long migraine !!

with all honesty EBAY SUCKS….its only okay if you are the buyer but for sellers,it is so bad.i am talking from experience,they have lots of ways in getting money from you and they just suspend your account unnecessarily.you can’t leave negative feedback as a seller but negative feedback can be left for you.paypal is even worse,i don’t wish my enemy to have a problem with paypal,i sold a wristwatch and posted it as next day delivery with proof of delivery and signature of the buyer showing on royal mail tracking site,and the buyer still claiming that item was not received and after lots of hazzles,i was given my money but to my surprise after 3months paypal gave the money back to buyer stating that the buyer has charged them via the card issue and therefore nothing paypal could do,in other words buyer have item and money.so many things like that.EBAY REALLY SUCKS FOR SELLERS BUT OK FOR BUYERS

EBAY IS THE WORSE SITE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NIGHTMARE IF YOUR A SELLER, BASTURDSSS HAD MY MONEY ON HOLD, COUPLE OF HUNDRED POUNDS, GOT IT AFTER BLOODY 180 DAYS, and even then they told me I can NO LONGER SELL ON EBAY EVER AGAIN IN MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!! :O

NOW PAYPAL, I JUST WISH I CAN BEAT HE CRAP OUT OF THE OWNER AND HIS EMPLOYERS!!!!!!!! I purchased something overseas through paypal, thinking it would be safe just incase sonething goes wrong. I only received half of my goods. Opened a case on PAYPAL went on for a while had all proof that the person whol sold me the stuff agreed on giving back the rest of the money, showed scanned it to PAYPAL, they said THIS IS NOT PROOF AND THAT I MIGHT HAVE THREATENED THE SELLER TO MAKE HIM GIVE ME REST OF MY MONEY!!! Now what the hell PAYPAL!!!!!!!! They asked me to show any proof of the conversation I did and this is what they said!!!!!!!!!!! I COULD STRANGLE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM BASTURRRDDSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :@

guess what they told me to do, type up a short report of what has happened go to your local police station and tell them to stamp it whaaattt thheeee f***!!!!!!!!!!! THE POLICE SAID WE DONT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS its PAYPALS business THIS IS STUPID!!!

EVERYONE PLEASEEEEEEEEE DONT USE EBAY STOP SELLING ON THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IV HERD SO MANY COMPLAINTS FROM PEOPLE THAT THERE MONEY HAS BEEN KEPT SONE DIDNT EVEN GET IT BACK!!! EBAY AND PAYPAL NEEDS TO BE SHUT DOWN!!!!!!!! Seriously!

What I have done for years is just use ebay for another cheap ad medium for my products. I list prices nearly double the price on ebay which there are plenty links in my ad to direct them to get the same product for 1/2 the price from my website. Cheap cheap advertising for a few bucks a month!

I would never pay ebay the selling fees they want, what a joke!!

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Ebay is a horrible, risky place for Buyers too. Even if 99% of sellers are honest that 1% ruin it because it is not worth the Russian Roulette of finding out when you will be screwed over. I canceled a couple of weeks ago due to a horrible experience after several years of buying from the site. I will be using more secure, trusted sites and actual stores in the future. It’s just not worth the risk and stress.