danyanda
06-24-2007, 05:48 PM
I just put some stuff up on ebay for the first time in probably 2 years. Boy, the selling process has sure gotten a lot more complicated. The pages took forever to load and there were so many stupid choices that I had to make before I could sell something. I normally do a flat shipping rate for the US and anyone who is international I get their total when the auction ends. Now I have to enter a weight for international shipping because I said that I would ship internationally.
I guess that for some of the bigger sellers this could make things easier, but for the little guys it sure is a pain in the rear.
Goldbug
06-24-2007, 10:51 PM
I just put some stuff up on ebay for the first time in probably 2 years. Boy, the selling process has sure gotten a lot more complicated. The pages took forever to load and there were so many stupid choices that I had to make before I could sell something. I normally do a flat shipping rate for the US and anyone who is international I get their total when the auction ends. Now I have to enter a weight for international shipping because I said that I would ship internationally.
I guess that for some of the bigger sellers this could make things easier, but for the little guys it sure is a pain in the rear.
Yes & I do not prepackage items. Sometimes the same bidder wins 2 or more items so I would package them together. That dimensions thing does not work either. I swear it is automatically marking mine as irregular. I told eBay this but they never responded.
Then there is the intrusive second category pop-ups. There is no way around those! Sure you can mark it don't show this for 30 days but only in that category! Again I complained on their survey form.
Sometimes the shipping & handling submit button doesn't work so the progress bar keeps looping forever. I have to restart my browser sometimes!
All these problems & they justify it by fee increases! :mad:
YELSEW
06-27-2007, 06:09 AM
Ebay needs some healthy competition, until then we will continue to see these daunting menus just to list a $10 to $20 item that we loose about 20% to ebay and another 10% to paypal. I haven't sold in a long time, because of this.
roboticplanet
06-27-2007, 09:48 AM
My patience for the menus online ended several years ago. I've found turbo lister works much better, especially with saving my own template info. Assuming I've already taken pictures and weighed the item, throwing together an auction takes 2-3 minutes.
dockingbay97
06-27-2007, 01:02 PM
It was a pain when they first started with the new format but now it is as easy as the old way for me. I don't use Turbo Lister or any other tool. It has become so mechanical and fast for me that I get frustrated watching other people list. I turn into a total back seat lister. It drives my gf crazy when she asks my help when she is listing something.
danyanda
06-27-2007, 01:32 PM
I found out yesterday that one of my auctions didn't work correctly. There was no picture and the description was from a different auction. When I went to fix it I was first not allowed to edit the description. Then when I added to the description and added the picture I was not allowed to finish my changes because I could not put a value range in for the age for the toy. Funny thing was that I could not input any values no matter what I tried.
I wonder how much I'll lose because the auction has a flawed description and no picture (ebay's fault) and I can't do anything to fix it (ebay's fault)?