E bay Memories Happy Days......

[Coldcotes]

The trouble is that bidders are far too pushy nowadays as they know they have the upper hand and can demand what they want and they know you can't do a thing, now i allways post ALL items recorded delivery as more and more bidders where just putting in claims saying they had'nt recieved the item but the bidders complain the postage price is too high and then pay pal would refund them and you loose the item, the payment and the postage you have shelled out. but its still worth selling for now as you get very good prices for items that would otherwise be car booted for a tenth of the e bay price. They forget that some of us are not massive retail outlets but just a guy or gal flogging a few bits and bobs to get by in life with a few luxuries......

[besttimedeals]

I remember when you got 5 free listings just for signing up with any old name and address.

Those were good times.

Great post

[ShadyOne]

^ Great post

[mattytman]

Back in the glory days of eBay I used it for all manner of bizarre things. All above board, of course! Just a little 'outside the box' thinking...

In 2002/3 I used to make anything between £15-£400 per auction by selling 'links' to freebie sites, game passes or 'discount' codes. They soon smashed that idea!

My best time/idea was in 2005. This was before eBay/PayPal joined forces with this bizarre 21-day-hold policy for some/new sellers. I used to create an account with any old name etc and then build up the feedback by selling and buying low value items. I used to wait a few months and get it up to 500 or so and then I would take a look at laptop and mobile phone auctions from sellers with low feedback. People were reluctant to bid so I often won the auction. As soon as I won it I would re-create the listing and re-sell it myself. With more feedback and a snazzy auction frame I would make far more than the price I had just purchased. The winner of my auction pays me say £400...I won the auction for £200...so I send the £200 to my seller with my buyers address for delivery. He pays the postage etc and I get £200 for doing nothing! I was in the ****e if the seller didn't send the goods to my buyer but I picked up auctions that I was confident about - so it never happened. No DSRs, No holding of funds so I could just sendstraight to sellers. Easy life. Needless to say...EBay/PayPal smashed that too!

EBay used to be so much fun. It's been no fun at all since they became too big to care about their customers.

EBAY...IF YOU'RE OUT THERE LISTENING...I HAVE A SAYING FOR YOU THAT MY NAN USED TO TELL ME WHEN I WAS A CHILD...

YOU SHOULD BE NICE TO PEOPLE ON THE WAY UP, BECAUSE YOU'RE SURE TO MEET THEM ON THE WAY DOWN!

[ShadyOne]

Haha I liked your post there mattster!

I liked the way it ended, sent chills through me, thinking of the day e bay realise their mistakes...

Originally Posted by mattytman

YOU SHOULD BE NICE TO PEOPLE ON THE WAY UP, BECAUSE YOU'RE SURE TO MEET THEM ON THE WAY DOWN!

[mattytman]

And they will realise!!!

This is only an example so excuse the numbers...

How can 100,000 ordinary people selling/buying 'low risk' items be better than 100 genuine monster sellers? But the more you make, as a seller, the more scrutiny you are under. 10,000 people are harder to manage
and more likely to contain a high number of 'bad eggs'.

I mention ordinary sellers because that is what eBay want. Their ideal world would be 200,000,000 million members buying stamps every day...aside from the numbers...that's where they began. Spot the freekin Irony eBay?

One more rant:
A genuine, straight-up powerseller is paying £5k a month in eBay fees. Some little pleb buys an item and tries to scam a chargeback etc etc. It doesn't work so the buyer leaves negative feedback. The buyer has paid for the item and no negative feedback can be left fr him to warn others about his fraudulent ways. This happens again, and again...and what do eBay do? Do they protect their interest and try to help the seller who is making them £5k profit in listing fees per month? Nope, they warn them to buck their ideas up! And then wallop it happens again...and the seller is gone. Potentially upsetting many many happy customers and losing their business, whilst the scamming little plebs who caused the problem simply go on their merry way. EBay are £5k a month worse off...the seller could potentially lose his business, home etc...and there are hundreds of repeat buyers left wondering where they are going to buy their 'X' from now on.

SMART BUSINESS EBAY...REAL SMART!!!

This is why this site exists. And God bless the fact that it does.:ha il:

[ShadyOne]

^^^ A good e bay memory always turns sour

Thread title: E bay Memories Happy Days......

[mattytman]

Oooooooops. My bad. Sorry OP.

I truly loved eBay when they cared a little more. Now they only care about money - and so all I care about is taking money from them. Lol. I must owe £50k in unpaid fees. I wonder how letters have turned up at stealth addresses. Muhahahahahahahaha.

EBay rules.

[stevesokol21]

i remember the days when the items i sold were costing me about $120-150 a day in listing fees. that went on for a few years and they kept changing there fees which actually benefitted me. i estimate i paid around $300k in fees so far, while profiting around $600k. so i would say i have around $1million in total sales over the years.

actually if i sold the same amount now as what i used to sell, i would only be paying around $50-75 a day.

its crazy how much money i used to spend but it also made me six figures for a few years so i didnt even care. making $200 profit in a day was a bad day back then. now if i make that im stoked.

this does not even include the paypal fees i have paid over the years either. i estimate around 40000-50000 transactions on paypal over the past 8 years i have been doing this.

i started when i was 19 and im now 27. this is my life and always will be until they make sure nobody can be online.

i wish i found out about this stealth thing a year before i did b/c i would have never took time off from ebay. i didnt know how to get back on until someone told me about this site. i was pretty cool.

hope everyone enjoyed my ebay life story. its been fun and i hope it lasts for a long time.

steve

[planes]

Sold a fireman's acid protective suit for about 80$. Later I realized what it was probably for.

Sold a musty leather biker jacket and chafes so I let them sit on the porch for a month. Sold them for 150.00.

Found a bunch of COlumbia sports clothing in a dumpster(I know) Pieced them out and made about 400 bucks.

[Imback2010]

LoL


When I first started on ebay 10 years ago, I used to order books from book clubs and get each one for like 50 cents and sell them for 10 fold..lol

same thing with columbia dvd house.... ahhhhhh the good old days....

Making spare cash when I was 14...