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Ebay's Seller Survey Holds a Nice Surprise
VicThrust
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Ebay asked me to fill out a survey-
First Questions - What level seller are you? It goes on to list all pwer sellers level and last option is non-power seller. If you select the Not A Powerseller option - next page says Survey Over!
They never stop amazing me.
First Questions - What level seller are you? It goes on to list all pwer sellers level and last option is non-power seller. If you select the Not A Powerseller option - next page says Survey Over!
They never stop amazing me.
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Russ, NCNE
comments, to be a Power Seller
is almost like wearing a scarlet letter.
Camelot
<< <i>This is another excellent example of telling half the story just to be able to slam eBay. The survey is about shipping, and specifically focuses on UPS. Why? Because eBay is negotiating volume rates for Powersellers. So, of course, the survey would end if you say you're not a Powerseller. >>
Surely they can configure their email software to send only to powersellers if they want.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
I wasted 5 minutes on that stoopid survey
<< <i>This is another excellent example of telling half the story just to be able to slam eBay. The survey is about shipping, and specifically focuses on UPS. Why? Because eBay is negotiating volume rates for Powersellers. So, of course, the survey would end if you say you're not a Powerseller.
Russ, NCNE >>
Russ, they are after all preeminently slammable.
Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1
<< <i>This is another excellent example of telling half the story just to be able to slam eBay. The survey is about shipping, and specifically focuses on UPS. Why? Because eBay is negotiating volume rates for Powersellers. So, of course, the survey would end if you say you're not a Powerseller.
Russ, NCNE >>
Half the story my ass - you missed the point - Ebay does not care about you if are not a Power Seller! They also made no effort to explain the reason for the survey.
You can now go back to your cubicle at Ebay.
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<< <i>This is another excellent example of telling half the story just to be able to slam eBay. The survey is about shipping, and specifically focuses on UPS. Why? Because eBay is negotiating volume rates for Powersellers. So, of course, the survey would end if you say you're not a Powerseller. >>
Surely they can configure their email software to send only to powersellers if they want. >>
You would think. But surely credit cards wouldn't make you enter your account number 4 times and then ask for it again when you get a live person if they wanted to also. --Jerry
<< <i>Russ, they are after all preeminently slammable. >>
True, but there's plenty to slam them on without being deliberately deceptive.
Russ, NCNE
personally, I agree that eBay doesn't care much about the joe sixpack Sellers, but mainly they concentrate on power sellers because that is where they got almost 9 BILLION DOLLARS last year. At least that's what I read in the article on CNN while ago about eBay. That is a lot of darn money to not care what we ALL think. We all know that eBay has become more and more 'heartless' over the years, and are turning more 'governmental'. Kind of like the government taking your money and your opinion doesn't really matter.
Interesting, if that's the case. Ebay's priorities are clearly 1) buyers, 2) power sellers and 3) everyone else. It seems like they want to push small sellers out of their marketplace, although I don't understand why. Ebay gets paid per auction, regardless of who lists it. I once worked for a small manufacturing job shop that decided it was going to focus on only their large customers, and told all it's smaller customers it wouldn't be making their parts anymore. A few years later, the doors closed. It seems that all those small customers were helping to cover the company's overhead after all.
<< <i>personally, I agree that eBay doesn't care much about the joe sixpack Sellers >>
They haven't cared about the joe sixpack sellers since Omidyar stepped down and Whitman took the reigns.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>It seems like they want to push small sellers out of their marketplace, although I don't understand why. >>
Because they want to become another big shopping mall. Most of the changes they've made don't bother me much. That one does.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>UPS would actually be inconvenient for me. Closest UPS store is out of my way and I have a job to go to during the day. Post office is literally on my way so, guess I won't fill out the survey. >>
that's another side step away from the small non power-seller-non-mechant-garage-sale-type sellers on eBay.
UPS comes by every day p/u or not....@ my business...(not numismatic related) so i can see why eBay would do this.
eBay is trying to push the shipping handling fees into the sale price of the product and not as a separate item.
<< <i>UPS comes by every day p/u or not....@ my business...(not numismatic related) so i can see why eBay would do this. >>
Mine too, but there is no way in hell I'd use them for shipping coins. Aside from the fact that they won't insure them, the post office is cheaper and quicker.
Russ, NCNE
I should probably whisper this, but what's stopping them from doing it now? They run the show, and can change the fee structure at any time. Maybe the plan is to offer (power)sellers a discount on shipping if they use UPS, but the shipping charges would then be subject to final value fees?
5 years from now, the eBay we currently know will only be a memory. Only commercial enterprises will be able to sell via eBay. Private individuals will have been shown the door, either blatantly, or by setting minimum monthly sales thresholds to be eligible for inclusion.
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<< <i>This is another excellent example of telling half the story just to be able to slam eBay. The survey is about shipping, and specifically focuses on UPS. Why? Because eBay is negotiating volume rates for Powersellers. So, of course, the survey would end if you say you're not a Powerseller.
Russ, NCNE >>
Half the story my ass - you missed the point - Ebay does not care about you if are not a Power Seller! They also made no effort to explain the reason for the survey.
You can now go back to your cubicle at Ebay. >>
Now the above type of comment toward Russ is really uncalled for. I don't know Russ, but I am familiar with his constructive contributions to this forum
<< <i>Ebay asked me to fill out a survey-
First Questions - What level seller are you? It goes on to list all pwer sellers level and last option is non-power seller. If you select the Not A Powerseller option - next page says Survey Over!
They never stop amazing me. >>
Maybe they don't know how to sort their customer list.
Truly an amazing operation.