I am no newbie to eBay. My family has been on eBay for years and has seen it go no-where but downhill in some important areas. It used to be you payed so much to list your item and that was it. Then they added a final value fee and took off some of the listing fee’s.

Some would say it could pay off as not everything sells so lower listing fee’s would be better. Well if you sell a lot of stuff or any number of stuff that you know is going to sell for the most part even if it takes 2 times to sell it then you know final value fee’s are not good.

I had a seller misuse the ebay feedback system about a year ago. I bought a phone from him and he sent me TWO broken phones. I had to pay shipping back to him both times and the second time he gave me my money back even though he had a “exchange only” policy. Well I gave him the feedback he deserved which was a neutral. If you can’t sell nothing but duds then you get a neutral regardless if I get my money back.

Well I got a quick NEGATIVE from him. I contacted him and he said to him a neutral or a negative was the same. He quickly said lets mutually remove both feedbacks. I did so not wanting a negative and well it was not fair. I scanned over his feedback and he did the same thing to EVERYONE who bought from him and left a negative or a neutral. This is what ebay needs to cut out of their system. People like him should get banned for junk like that. But instead they just make it worse on the good sellers…..I have 3 negatives all from bad sellers and it being all their fault.