Reply #46: Thanks for the heads-up. Some questions... [View All]

[eowyn_of_rohan]

I have bought many items from ebay over the past 7 years. I just sold my first item last month and was looking forward to doing more selling. Now I am a bit worried. I have not thoroughly reviewed or analyzed all the changes they have made, but here is where my thinking stands on this, at this point, and I would appreciate any feedback you could give (oops).

- Not being able to leave negative feedback for bad buyers seems to be the worst part of this. Being able to leave negative feedback is sort of a "safety net" for buyers AND sellers, to hopefully keep everyone in line. I am worried about this...

- How much have they actually increased the seller's fee on the insertion and final selling price? I cannot remember what I paid last month -thought it ended up (together) being about 3-5%? Can't a seller offset the higher selling price fee by raising the opening bid by that same percent? I am not too worried about this (maybe I should be?)

- The new policy of reasonable Shipping & handling costs I think is a good change for buyers, still allows a handling fee for sellers, and protects ebay from people not paying a fair selling price, by putting too high a % of the total cost into shipping (for which ebay gets nothing).

- I like the reduced cost for multiple photos

- what else am I missing?

Pardon my naivite, and thanks for contributing to my education.

(ps-somebody gave me a heart - thanks! didnt know anyone cared :)