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Re: Good-bye Ebay[ Parent ] (none / 0) (#7)
by Anonymous User on Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 05:55:21 PM PDT

I choose to vote with my wallet - I don't sell on eBay any more. I rarely look at eBay today for the collectables I desire as there is too much manure to wade through for the possible treasure nugget.

The worst thing, for me, is that there is no way to directly let eBay know that I am very highly unsatisfied with them. I can only let them know indirectly by not using them for buying or selling, and by leaving notes like this.

If you could let Ebay know, they would do what they do when anyone else does anyway --not listen and continue running things as they wish, with, at best, a token "I'm sorry you feel that way, we do the best to treat our customers with the utmost blah, blah..." form letter.

Ebay knows they have a monopoly on their type of business --as long as no other competitor gains traction, they don't suffer a major loss of customers, and their shareholders are happy, they can do what they want, including screwing over sellers and/or buyers, whenever it suits them. They (and PayPal) have worked as hard as possible to ensure they can assume as little responsibility as possible for anything that may go wrong in a transaction.

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