After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL

[PeterB]

28%. Only another 23% to go!

[Lee3]

Craigslist can be duplicated if it gets out of hand. Users will just move to Daveslist or something like that

[Grateful11]

I still have to wonder how many people on here have actually had a legitimate problem with
Paypal? It gets slammed on here every week. I've had somewhere in the neighborhood of
5000 transactions through Paypal and 99.9% of them have been very satisfactory. I
have also nearly stopped selling on eBay due to a big drop in sales and an increase fees.

[Sam3]

Can somebody please explain the following? I've lately been getting the eBay bug to buy things, (I also want to have enough feedbacks so that I can sell some things), but on my recent purchase the seller said that he'd appreciate a positive feedback when I received the product and would then reciprocate.

Huh?

Why does he have to wait to post a feedback about me? Did I not complete the whole eBay transaction? I paid almost immediately after winning the auction. I thought my part of the transaction was completed, I paid him. Should I not be allowed a feedback at that point? Why does he have to wait until I post a feedback?

[Carnos Jax]

Sam, it does sound kinda funny for that seller to ask you to leave feedback. As a seller myself, I don't ask for feedback, but I only leave feedback once the buyer does. The reason for this is that there are many unreasonable buyers out there looking to cause trouble. They'll extort you with feedback. The way I look at it, feedback shouldn't be left by any party until the transaction is completed to the satisfaction of both. Once the buyer receives the item and is satisfied with it, there is nothing left for the seller to do. Therefore the buyer should leave feedback.

It's convenient to think that the sellers obligations are met once they've made payment. But not so, the specter of abusive buyers are too rampant in the marketplace. I thought the best system was one where both parties can leave feedback, but with some arbitration available if one party threatens feedback abuse (or leaves false feedback). Ebay makes more than enough money to do this. I've had almost 200 transactions now, totaling over $10000, with never a problematic buyer. If I only have 1 problem buyer per 100 transactions, eBay would have made more than enough money off of me to staff someone to handle problematic issues. The fact is for all practical purposes they don't. Shame on eBay for this, their greed has overtaken their business responsibilities.

[viaripatti]

I've never sold a thing on eBay. I've bought a lot of Mac computers and components there, however. Many of those Computers were given a special spit polish, checked out and resold locally on CL for a nice profit. I'm typing this on a Brand new Mac Mini Core Duo 2 2GHz/2GB/160GB that has real costs of about $100 from a few judicious prior computer trades of Buy/Sells on CL.

[Kiva]

[quote PeterB]Kiva, I know some of them aren't interested in letting ebay in any further. It's not entirely up to just them, however... if someone within the company sells their shares, ebay will hold a majority stake.
i hear ya...*possible*, I guess...but highly unlikely...given the principles the company was founded on....but, sometimes, $ speaks louder than anything :-)

kiva particularly