What Has Happened To Ebay??????

Has anybody else noticed that on Ebay most of the sellers are now
using 'Buy it Now" with ridiculously high prices rather than starting
at a certain price and letting it be a real auction??
Your comments are welcome. TIA Harvey

Starting at the retial price and letting it be a real auction ?

look at the BIN fees compared to the 9% fee up to $50.00

anything over $100.00 has lower BIN fee than the 9% up to $50.00 for the
"regular" auction


h

With a lot of people leaving eBay is there another place to sell coins
like a national Craiglist? Selling on Craiglist the listing fee sure
beats eBay. Before eBay there were several online coin auctions. They
all died as everyone moved to eBay. Perhaps now is a good time for
someone to start one up again

On Oct 3, 6:37*pm, Gene85 wrote:
With a lot of people leaving eBay is there another place to sell coins
like a national Craiglist? Selling on Craiglist the listing fee sure
beats eBay. Before eBay there were several online coin auctions. They
all died as everyone moved to eBay. Perhaps now is a good time for
someone to start one up again

Walmart will figure it out.

On Oct 3, 5:37*pm, Gene85 wrote:
With a lot of people leaving eBay is there another place to sell coins
like a national Craiglist? Selling on Craiglist the listing fee sure
beats eBay. Before eBay there were several online coin auctions. They
all died as everyone moved to eBay. Perhaps now is a good time for
someone to start one up again

The only thing I DONT like is when the picture is enhanced or the
price is out of line on shipping. I dont sell much but I do know how
much it cost when I do....

On Sep 29, 3:29*pm, Harvey wrote:
Has anybody else noticed that on Ebay most of the sellers are now
using 'Buy it Now" with ridiculously high prices rather than starting
at a certain price and letting it be a real auction??
Your comments are welcome. *TIA * Harvey

I just realized. Ebay is now hosed because Meg Whitman is gone. Wait
a minute. Wasn't that supposed to be a good thing? (Opening the door
for a severely OT political rant.)

Jerry
They're only a venue...

In article ,
Gene85 wrote:

With a lot of people leaving eBay is there another place to sell coins
like a national Craiglist? Selling on Craiglist the listing fee sure
beats eBay. Before eBay there were several online coin auctions. They
all died as everyone moved to eBay. Perhaps now is a good time for
someone to start one up again

Just curious, what online coin auction sites did eBay kill?
I can't think of any offhand ...

Re a new site ... many have tried, all have failed. The list
of "eBay killer" auction sites is legion ...

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On Oct 6, 5:51*pm, Ken Barr wrote:

Just curious, what online coin auction sites did eBay kill? *
I can't think of any offhand ...

Yahoo auctions? I don't know, just a guess.

The biggest issue with collectibles on eBay is that the site sold out
to the mega-seller a long time ago and disenfranchised its smaller
vendors.

Sure, they’ve tried to bring people back with no fee listing, etc.
The damage was already done. Forget the stamp marketplace. I listed
a couple of stamps only to have a mega-vendor report me after I
wouldn’t offer a return policy.

My feeling is that once I mail out the product, I no longer control it
anymore. What protects the small seller from an unscrupulous buyer
who purchases products and returns fakes in their place?

Despite a 100% positive feedback rating with a couple hundred
completed sales, eBay removed my listings and stated that they had
left the policing of those specialty areas to trusted moderators. In
my case I believe the person was a larger seller. Can anyone say
“conflict of interest”?