I find ebay quite ridiculous nowadays, Like mentioned by others the prices are really high cutting alot of your profit margin down instantly what makes it unfair is knowing how many people ebay copes for they need not take that high percentage to tell you the truth its greed, but where theres a need for something like paypal and ebay and no competition in the same league there will always be that greed n you just have to play the game.
I agree with fashion talker ebay has literally become like gambling because the risk of gaining profit is that high what with the competition and fee's n lack of ability to sell anything near retail because of the competition, and the chances of you recieving problems after your sale from someone are high nowadays (many ebayers who have no clue how ebay works they just wish to buy something quickly). Beyond ebays rules and regulations being extremely strict now beyond belief, its impossible when u have problems on ebay to talk to a human who can actually solve the problem you have (unless your a powerseller), you go onto ebay live chat and they just refer you to a department email who just then send you an automated reply.
You just know they dont care about you in the slightest n your viewed as a statistic when every reply you get is from a robot.
It all comes down to your plan, the opportunity you have infront of you n the product your working with, but generally for the majority of people i think ebay is very much so not going to make people money, especially with the tax man linking up with paypal and ebay to stop people even earning in the slightest before they've got any money to do anything with investment wise. A vicious cycle...
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