I've become dissatisfied with ebay. It's still a good place to sell stuff that locally you could never find buyers for. But buying things on ebay generally has left me wanting. A few of my biggest gripes:

1. most of the new apparel items are cheap knock offs from china. doesnt seem to matter even if it says 100% authentic or if they have good feedback. seems that buyers don't care its a knock off because they just want to be seen wearing a designer label.

2. bidding idiots over pay on anything that is remotely in demand. I've seen used items go for as much as it would go for new. if you go to all the time and trouble of the biding process you should be getting a deal otherwise whats the point?

3. the excitement of bidding gets old when you want the dam item and someone comes in and out bids you at the last second after you waited a week expecting you would win. i use buy it now to avoid this bullshit. when i want something i want it now.

4. the amount of fees extracted from you to sell something are really getting hefty. After ebay takes their cut for listing, then for selling, then for the paypal transaction, there isn't much left over.

Last edited by igottaknow on Apr-18-2007 at 21:43

nay, used to be good, now its filled with crap..

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I qute like it, i buy random shite though that nobodly else wants and i don't pay very much for it.

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i use it very rarely, but i've found some sweet things and good deals on there. i think the last thing i bought on eBay was the translucent-blue Blue Fear vinyl i had framed for Rob's birthday last year, since it wasn't available anywhere else at the time.

oh, and i never have the patience to bid... always Buy It Now.

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Sometimes when I get really drunk I bid on dvd's that are $.01

It's all fun and games until I sober up and realize the shipping and handling is like $10.00 and I've never heard of the movie.

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but i did enjoy getting my extremely polished used copies of Xenogears + Vagrant Story for $5 each.

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov Sometimes when I get really drunk I bid on dvd's that are $.01 It's all fun and games until I sober up and realize the shipping and handling is like $10.00 and I've never heard of the movie.

overcharging for shipping never gets old

ebay rocks!

for example - i bought this





for £100

I only want it for the engine and gearbox which is going into this



I've stripped the car down



and everything that is in working order have resold on ebay and made myself so far £500 profit which means i got my engine and gearbox for nothing and have some money to do a strip and rebuild of the engine

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quote:

Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov Sometimes when I get really drunk I bid on dvd's that are $.01 It's all fun and games until I sober up and realize the shipping and handling is like $10.00 and I've never heard of the movie.

overpriced shipping is the biggest pet peeve of mine with ebay.