ebay doing it's best to alienate sellers?
does seem that way , what with the death of 99p listing and *35p* per thing.. WTF.. really great for a 99p items
also the news about it being hacked, and them not letting on and really don't seem "none plused" . I don't recall giving them permission to give out my info to random 3rd parties.
also the news about it being hacked, and them not letting on and really don't seem "none plused" . I don't recall giving them permission to give out my info to random 3rd parties.
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I thought for a while, with there being a lot of hype in the news/media and little info on their site. Was this like when the media made a big stink and caused panic with the recent Heartbleed hack, which only affected some sites.
I've nearly lost the will to live trying to sell off my tapes individually so being able to start bundles at higher than 99p and not have to pay for it and also put the odd "decent" title on at a set price is all good as far as I'm concerned. If you're doing 100 auctions per month every month then I guess eBay (and potentially HMRC) see you as more of a business. At the very least it should cut down on some of the junk that gets listed and re-listed ad infinitum.
As for the passwords fiasco.... well, I hope the FBI investigation into why they took so long to bother mentioning the hacking ends up with them getting their backsides well and truly kicked and they're fined millions of dollars. Perhaps they could pay via PayPal?
It's not the passwords that's the worry really, though, it's all the other info that's stored with them that's NOT encrypted such as names, addresses, phone numbers etc. All stuff that the unscrupulous can use to do God-knows-what with. Maybe they should be suggesting everyone changes their names instead of their passwords? :lol:
If its not in the phone book, there are electoral rolls and all sorts of other sources for what is fairly public, easily accessible info. Hacking ebay is really a rather long winded way of getting it.
I wish I lived in your happy little world :)
"Hi. I'm a hacker phoning from abroad. Could you give me millions upon millions of verified names, addresses, phone numbers, email address and any other information you might have stored on your systems? What do I want them for? Errr... Well, I've been told they're easily available but if it's too much hassle for you to just give them me...."
Actually I have pretty much stopped selling on ebay due to the high fees and people moaning about the postage costs being higher than the actual stamp price (which I had to increase by 11% to cover ebay's 10% on the fees, plus of course, PayPal take 3.4%)
I now sell more membranes through sellmyretro than I do through ebay. :)
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The only additional fees are if you want to have your listing featured on the home or category pages, or have it shown in bold.
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If I sent all my eBay orders out five days late I'd be banned faster than you can say "Devin Wenig"
but it's more than likely 20 items a month *BUT* it's free to relist when you tick a box. should make it 80 (re-list 3 times)
they have a thing where they have to keep listings above a certain level. I notice when you get a silly amount of free listings in a month.
the postage thing , you can thank the folk who took the p*** with postage charges for that, listing the item for 1p and the rest for ?10.
have been working a lot, so can't put in the time with ebay and even if I do it feels like it's not worth the effort.
I think eBay are trying to reinvent themselves as an equivalent to Amazon and are moving away from the whole small private seller / auction market anyway, so I really wouldn't be surprised if another site picks up that market fairly soon.
Quite right about the postal costs as mentioned above though: I used to charge at cost (?1.50 in UK for a CD) so a final fee on that wouldn't be the worst thing except if you're selling in bulk. For those charging stupid postal costs, then it might dissuade them ....?