eBay is alright, but .....

They are in competition with the continuous offerings of the auction houses, who cost the buyer more, but bring the perception of legitimizing the offered material before cataloging it. And offer many other features in exchange for their fee.

No, not for me. No more ebays. The one which we have is more than enuff for me. It is the no-frills venue, and

Yahoo tried, but they were joke. I'm amazed someone else doesn't try to get in on the auction - maybe Amazon. But do people want two different sites? I spend enough tough digging through listings on eBay - don't really want to do all the searches twice. Also, eBay has the customers. Sellers would potentially give away profit on a new site until enough people started visiting it.

If you are strictly buyer, eBay isn't all the bad. It's as a small seller where eBay really truly sucks. This was their bread and butter when they started. No they have turned their backs on them and only worry about their best powersellers. It really isn't worth it for me anymore to list stuff eBay because they take a such a huge chunk of money from in the form of fees and now the required PayPal which strips more money from you.

Jay

Jay babe, I agree with you 100 %.
That's what I mean about Monopoly, and changing the rules anyway they like.
Now , they're trying to screw around with the buyers.
They're telling us that they will only accept a certain form of payment.
Being that we (eBay) own Paypal ... we want to increase that cut of the action.
Jay, I've been paying by check since 1998, and I'll be damned if I'm going to change that. ... I put my sets together way before eBay, and I'll continue to do it without them.
During the 1980's, I never bought a card from Al Rosen.
My motto was ... "Whatever I can get from Rosen, I can get from anywhere else in the country, ... cheaper, and I did.
All the dealers that know me, know that I'm not going to change my form of payment.
If they want my bid, they know where i'm coming from. AND A GREAT MAJORITY AGREE. ... I'm not the only buyer that feels this way.
Again 'ol buddy, I agree with what you say.

Joe P.

My experience so far with the pp-only rule is that most all sellers will take a check/MO if you simply ask them too. Heck many auctions still say it in the write up in the body of the auction. For most of the sellers the quickness is not worth the 3% especially for low risk buyers with high feedback.

It would be nice to have a more reasonable alternative, but we did get spoiled by the early lower fees. Ebay still offers millions of possible buyers and where else can you find that for a 10% fees. I would list more at these fees if they did not require the Paypal payment. Too me this is an in your face. I know if ebay opened the auctions up to check/money order as forms of payment that I would list a heck of alot more as is I think I have only listed 5 items since the policy was enacted.

I also like using Ebay to list items at a minimum i am comfortable with selling where auction house set the minimum to start the bidding and make the item sell, which is an excellant policy for a buyer and the auction house.

Lee

HrBaker, you are so right about the overwhelming majority sellers comfort level with personal checks or MO's from low risk buyers.
I agree totally with what you recommend, checking with the seller about personal checks/MO's as a form of payment. ... I don't bid, if I don't check for a check.
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Lee, you are on target Babe.

Not everyone is a Rolls Royce salesperson, or buyer.
It will cut into, or drive away the Mom & Pop stores, plus a good chunk of the Form of Payment Crowd.

If eBay proceeds to insist on fixing something that's not broken with the PP only rule, they will undermine the extra (gelt, wampam, peso's, dinerum) PP factor.
They will lose more than what they will gain! JMO

Joe P.