How to Sell on e-bay?
Autor: Eu.com.baunilha | Publicado: 2012-05-03T00:00:00-04:00


I never though it would come to this, but it has become impossible to use e-bay.



You try using Mercado Livre and it is a pain to get along with it. 
Disrespect with the user, dishonest and illegal charges, restriction to 
good users and support for scammers.
That used to be a Mercado Livre thing, and that's why I hate it.

Now it seems like it's parent company, e-bay, is following those 
unhealthy steps towards the abyss. It has become just impossible to use 
e-bay. The policies have drastically changed to help the scammers, as I 
have just experienced myself: A bidder who is to me obviously just 
trying to mess up my sales has no obligation whatsoever to pay for the 
purchase that he did twice, and still I am the one who gets a negative 
feedback. For what? For not sending the item prior to receiving payment?
 I cannot find another explanation for this nonsense.

Following that, I made contact with another collector from São Paulo who
 is desperately trying to sell an item on e-bay, but all she could 
accomplish was a few minutes of auction before being flagged and taken 
down, without any reasonable explanation. Several times. Over and over 
again. When calling customer support and talking to an e-bay agent, not 
before waiting in line for an outrageous amount of time, no answers were
 given.

Even trying to comply with all the weak and useless measures to assure a
 fake 'safety', such as linking PayPal account, confirming Credit Card, 
and giving out CPF (the equivalent to the Social Security Number), and 
listing the auction with full care to fit every little stupid detail 
that is now required, there is no way to get the listing live. There is 
nothing the customer support can do to help, nor can they find an 
explanation (or even try to sound interested about it) for this problem.

By now you should have figured out that the question on the title is 
rather a rhetorical question than a real ask for help, and I do 
apologize for misleading you into reading this post, but I just had to 
try and get your attention for this matter.

There is nothing I can do to get a listing up and running, never mind my
 otherwise perfect reputation, forget about my many years using the 
website and helping the community grow, and even let go of my commitment
 to never leaving a fee for late payment, it just seems now that e-bay 
not only does not need me, but also does not want my business and 
couldn't care less if I will still be a part of it or not. Because, with
 all this difficulty, I can't help but think that the problem is me.

And, truth of the matter is, I will not be missed on e-bay. They do not 
give a single (insert your choice of curse here) about me as a costumer.
 So, why should I keep trying to win a small battle on a war that is 
already lost? 

Tonight it was the end of it, as I went to the very edge of trying, 
after two and a half hours of back and forth in the listing, fixing 
every single little confusing problem they have created, now they want 
me to confirm my identity. Hell, that got me even confused if I really 
am myself. I have called to confirm my identity, just like they told me 
to, but the waiting was too long, and, honestly, I am 99% sure that, if 
eventually someone actually pick up the line to help me, they wouldn't 
be able to do it, or wouldn't care, or would just say that it cannot be 
done because I don't sound like myself, or whatever else they can come 
up with to make it a tiny little bit more annoying and difficult to 
actually post an ad.

So that is that.
So long, e-bay. And I am sorry to be such a disappointment to you.