Ebay = Fail

Now Ebay has really shot itself in the foot. If you haven't heard the news, you're not an Ebayer. They announced yesterday a reduction in fees. Well, I thought this was not like them, and I was right. After the lower listing fee announcement, they hit you with a big increase in final value fee. Shocking.... I am not sure how I feel about this since I have 3 antique booths that take nearly 100% of my income due to the weakening economy and high gas prices. Maybe I can still be OK on Ebay, but now they are also controlling the searches. Items being sold by Powersellers with 100% feedbacks will be shown first, then 99%, etc. By the time you get to see what the small people have, you will just become bored with the whole thing and give up. This isn't the only stupid Ebay idea that will be in play soon, they are also making it impossible to leave a bad buyer negative feedback unless you file a nonpaying bidder complaint. Well, this isn't a very fair playing field. Imagine all the negatives the sellers will be getting for every little thing the buyer finds wrong? No more worries about the seller returning the negative. They could use this new power to hold it over the seller's heads to get free shipping, discounts and whatever tricks they can come up with. Most buyers are very nice people in my line of sales, but with other types of merchandise, it gets quite dicey. This is very irritating.