Why eBay offers cheap long-distance calling

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Ed — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:31:29 GMT

Wow, so many hostile eBay haters posting comments! I’ve had a great overall experience with eBay. Part of the reason I’ve had a good overall experience with eBay is that I’ve been buying and selling there since the beginning. My profile has longevity, with 100% feedback, and eBay (Paypal, buyers, and sellers too) know that I’m trustworthy, so if I have a problem with a seller/buyer and that person has a less than a perfect rating, or lack of longevity, then I usually come out on top. Obviously I wouldn’t have a perfect rating if I didn’t always do right on eBay, and because I strive for 100% I reap the rewards with higher prices achieved through my sales (bidder confidence) and have gained eBay trust. eBay is not perfect, they have to judge issues as fairly as they can, and that means (sometimes) take in the big picture of the matter. While eBay isn’t perfect, what is? People say eBay fees are a rip! Try selling through Amazon! Or better yet, try selling your junk on Craigslist or garage sale it! You’ll make great money there, or it could take weeks to sell what you got! eBay is great if you use it wisely, just like alcohol!

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Ed — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:28:24 GMT

Wow, so many hostile eBay haters posting comments! Many of these people fail to understand what eBay is, and/or don’t take heed to the warning signs of some auctions and some eBay sellers. eBay is not a store, they are a meeting place for buyers and sellers of random items, that is guaranteed to transact within a short period of time (7 days). It’s up to the buyer to do the due diligence to ensure they’re getting a deal or dealing with a reputable seller, and it’s up to the seller to transact in a fair manner that increases their standing with the eBay community so they can gain trust and reap greater rewards. Bottom line, for buyers, if a seller has less than a perfect rating, or their perfect rating has only been with purchases, and/or hasn’t been selling on eBay for long, be wary and don’t buy from them, no matter how good the deal. Also, for items marked “Sold As Is, no returns” be wary and don’t buy those items. Unless you completely trust the seller, only use Paypal for the funds transaction, as they’ve done a great job (by me anyway) of guaranteeing/protecting funds. . I’ve had a few occurrences where I’ve been ripped off (bought items that were misrepresented) and in every instance, Paypal returned my money after going through the proper procedure (as aggravating as it is).

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Pat — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:14:10 GMT

I never trusted ebay & never bought anything on ebay. To take al lthe risk as a buyer & having to deal with scammers ...why not just pay a little more & have the ability to return if not satisfied or worked properly...

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John P. — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:46:36 GMT

I think that they should pay more attention to Skype as the service in itself is a good one. You get to save money (compared to any of the other local companies, talk all over the world (even with video), get a local number if needed and apparently, they make money too. Perhaps Google putting competition will make them realize that. Keep Skype, drop the rest.

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Me — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:08:59 GMT

People (loserd) still use Ebay?

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jimmy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:24:57 GMT

over the last year i have bought several items on ebay and some of the sellers were honest..however on 3 occasions i never got the item. twice the idem was not as presented, and 1 time it did not work..i used paypay to pay for them and only once did they do anything..but they took $25.00 out of the refund for their services..that is crap becasue they should be there to make sure buyers and sellers do not get ripped off ..not to rip them off..all they had to do was a charge back to the sellers account..the seller was still active on the site..such a rip off...the other times they did nothing about helping me my shipping charges back when i had to return the item so i paid shipping twice .once to recieve it and once to return..and had nothing when finished except the shipping bills...will not use the site again it is such a joke

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stevenbarbrn — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:07:47 GMT

Donahoe has done a mighty disservice to the auction community. eBay was originally founded as "the world's largest flea market" where anything and everything could be found - sometimes even for a bargain. Since going public and bending to the demands of shareholders, eBay has lost what it had. As a sometime seller and full-time buyer of collectibles, I am disappointed that my "sometimes" selling is of little importance. So little that there is no level playing field between buyers and seller and sellers take the hit in the pocket book. As to Skype? Why did they ever decide to enter THAT fray? eBay, your days as auction giant are numbered.

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Laura Lockie — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:50:56 GMT

I agree that I never understood the Ebay/Skype relevance. I've been selling on Ebay for 10 years and have 100% positive feedback, but I don't really ever want to talk to my buyers. I like the anonymity of email, it's a buffer that keeps the whole thing from getting too frustrating, cause Lord knows we don't make the money we used to on ebay before 9/11. As for customer loyalty on ebay, it doesn't exist, it's an auction site that is item-centric and bottom line based.

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humble_opinion — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:44:34 GMT

Ebay is is trouble, forget about scams and frauds; the worst is yet to come to ebay for what is doing to its sellers. The very people that keep ebay on business and running. Ebay has acted like a completely unexperienced almost dumb way by doing drastic and radical changes that seems like is desperately asking to be left and forgotten. Raising fees, ignoirng buyers and customers requests, suggestions, treating everyone like they are being given a "chance" to be on ebay and one of the works moves they made was early this year when they shut down all auctions and listings that involved digital transfers, what a horible thing to do!! This put loyal and dedicated sellers out of business in a matter of days and even worst left a lot of people terribly unhappy. To make matters wors Ebay came out with a very lame reason of why that was done: "in order to prevent unfair feedback manipulation"...well...was ot really necessary to destroy peoples businesses in order to stop this? what about modifying the way feedback works?There is obviously a lot more than just feedback manipulation. Well, I could spend a lot of days just wrting why the end of ebay is getting closer and closer by the minute. Investors and people in general should stay away from it. I am sure that Ebay has the resources to bring it self back to what it used to be..but wether that is going to happen yet remains to be seen.

Ebay...good luck..'cause you'll need it.

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Kate — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:22:48 GMT

You think Skype is an albatross?! Take a look at what else is going on with ebay. Honest sellers and buyers are leaving and moving to other sites because of high fees, woefully inadequate security, constantly changing rules, tweaking the parts that work fine and ignoring the parts with problems. Their customer service ranks among the worst you will ever find. For a company that makes money from the hard work of others and provides almost no support, Skype is the least of their problems.