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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm honestly not sure who the "genius" was who came up with this idea. Do they think we're desperate and dumb or something? Who in their right minds would EVER do this? Keep auto reducing the price of your item by 5% every 5 days until someone buys it? I mean, why in the heck do they think some of us set "minimum prices" on our items? Yet another way ebay has tried to scam sellers. Sadly, some will unknowingly sign up for this and end up angry when their item ends up selling for less than half of what they wanted for it.  This annoying pop-up now appears whenever you list or revise your listings...   CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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06/26/2018 09:16 am
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Valued Member
United States
231 Posts |
Yes, it is annoying that it pops up every time you list something. But what's worse is that they are adding best offer options to existing listings and making me go and remove it from live listings!
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Rest in Peace
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Winterfell, exactly. Found this out when I received an offer for item I had listed at BIN for less than 40% of my fair market offer. Is why I went elsewhere than Sleez-zee-bay to sell my products... And even sell for total of 10.5% LESS! More raw profit in pocket!
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06/25/2018 11:27 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12477 Posts |
I actually listed a couple things and edited others earlier tonight (not coins) and did not receive any popup, although that was on mobile, so maybe a difference there.
I have heard of OBO popping up randomly, but have never experienced it personally. Most of my BIN listings have OBO, anyway.
I'm more troubled by being forced into 30-day returns if I want to keep my seller status. Typically, I would allow 14-day returns on 97% of items and thought that reasonable. Now, they want it to be like a "retail experience" for the buyer. I am not a retail operation and really would not be able to afford buyer's taking advantage of this policy. Many of the things I sell could possibly be received, used for weeks and then legitimately returned. I just can't absorb that.
In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7641 Posts |
ebay will do whatever it takes to sell your stuff even if it's not in your best interest. This is just another way for them to generate revenue. Almost like a stock broker churning an account just to pad the numbers.
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Bedrock of the Community
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30 day returns on coins aren't worth seller status for coins
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1333 Posts |
Thats why as a seller you make sure you want to sell it or not at a given price, else be like meh I don't care I'm not selling, there is no law against that and ebay cant take the item from you only deduct the payment from your account. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I actually listed a couple things and edited others earlier tonight (not coins) and did not receive any popup, although that was on mobile, so maybe a difference there.
I have heard of OBO popping up randomly, but have never experienced it personally. Most of my BIN listings have OBO, anyway.
I'm more troubled by being forced into 30-day returns if I want to keep my seller status. Almost all of my listings expired today, so I went to relist all of them (over 200 total items), and make edits on about half of them. Everytime I did a new listing or a relisting with an edit, that pop-up came up!  I haven't received any notifications on my "above standard" seller status changing, though I did get one really bizarre notification saying I was "at risk in the global program." Since I only sell within the U.S. and its territories, I found this rather amusing.   CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I haven't received any notifications on my "above standard" seller status changing It only applies to Top Rated status. Interestingly, I lost that status a little while back because of selling individual coins and shipping them in an envelope without tracking because that was the most reasonable for me. After I stopped selling single coins for the most part, I got the rating back. Magic!  Quote:
I was "at risk in the global program." Since I only sell within the U.S. and its territories, I found this rather amusing. The notification is there because you only ship to the U.S. Opening your listings to other countries may be beneficial depending on the shipping method. For the GSP, remember that only the cost of shipping to KY is involved on your end for both parties. The out-of-country buyer has additional costs on their end depending on location. I did not use the GSP for individual low-value coins I intended to mail in an envelope. I could have, though, and may have to test it out.  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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06/26/2018 01:57 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1475 Posts |
Not too long in the future, an ebay robot will come to your house, drag you out to sell your items door to door, and take their fees, and make you thank them.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The notification is there because you only ship to the U.S. Opening your listings to other countries may be beneficial depending on the shipping method. Honestly, I have no interest in doing business with other countries. I used to do a tiny bit of business (about 2% of my total) with Canada, but I've heard lots of people complain about customs taking an inordinate amount of time to examine stuff the past couple of years (and it was never like that before). Too many problems can occur in shipping to other countries. I'd rather just play it safe and do what I can to protect my reputation on there. CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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06/26/2018 10:43 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Quote:Not too long in the future, an ebay robot will come to your house, drag you out to sell your items door to door, and take their fees, and make you thank them. CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1211 Posts |
You are seriously calling this a scam? Also, if you don't like the feature, just don't use it. It is amazing what some people will complain about...
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Forum Dad
 United States
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I think in certain situations it can be a fantastic idea.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You are seriously calling this a scam? I most certainly am. And since you're here, do you have any ideas how to disable this feature so that the pop-ups don't come up every time you list a coin using your PC? It was more than kind of annoying to close over 200 pop-up windows yesterday. CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yes, it is annoying that it pops up every time you list something. But what's worse is that they are adding best offer options to existing listings and making me go and remove it from live listings! I didn't know that last part as I was only listing or re-listing stuff. Sheesh! It's even worse than I thought initially! CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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