eBay Survey a Sign of Things to Come?

by: thievesBay

This is nothing more than eBay trying to collect data for their next round of scams. It's what they're doing every time they have a "survey". My guess is they'll eliminate some 3rd party providers and then monetize those that are most used. eBay's plan is to "monetize every pixel" as Wenig said and extract as much money as they can from a shrinking userbase. Sales are dying, sellers and buyers leaving, endless site issues, checkout problems, ongoing fraud, nobody wants Managed Payments or forced GTC. This is a sinking ship beyond repair.

by: pace306

Surveys on eBay exist (to smart sellers) as a warning of "Something Wicked This Way Comes".

Apple (on its iPhone) has a ring tone that goes (no exaggeration) "Dont answer the phone, it is a psycho" (dont ask me why its there - its an option in iTunes somewhere), and THAT statement goes for answering eBays surveys.

Dont fill out the survey, unless you're a psycho. Dont fill out the survey, cause DW is a psycho.

Dont help eBay in ANY possible way 1) they dont listen 2) they more or less do the opposite 3) its just a way to hurt you/steal from you/sell something you dont need or want

Maybe the yoyos on Youtube (those cheeky eBay millionaires (who somehow cant get a tax resale # and buy from a distributor or a manufacturer) can help eBay set up their next stealing venture (and then crow about it).

There is actually one good Youtube eBay guy - the one outside of Chicago who has a real store and buys real goods and puts in the effort to do things right (sorry about Milo)

by: Bill

I have been using a 3rd party provider for over 15 years now and if eBay thinks they can do something better I have a bridge I can sell them.

This is completely asinine.


eBay = Dead Man Walking

by: Whatever

It's so overwhelming their endless quest for mo money mo money - in light of the current "glitch" situation at ebay why in the world would I sign up for more trouble. I already don't trust them to not lose my hard work. I have a website just for safe keeping of all my files. I don't use any 3rd party functions and never have.

by: epuise

Get rid of Drumpf & Wenig's Group & life will improve.

by: Tinysaur

All of these marketplaces have boards that think they can cut a branch off of their tree and sell it for firewood. Once they have no branches, they fire the guy who told them that extracting maximum value (''monetize every pixel'') was a good strategy and move on to the next tree. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Nothing has changed since Gordon Gecko said ''Greed is good.''
We need a seller-owned marketplace, or our interests won't be the owners' primary concern.

by: JohnGermaine

Their GREED is sickening. Every time we turn around they are digging deeper into OUR pockets. They get tons of money off of their advertising, those who have stores, and more. Enough already, stop. Sellers are screaming ENOUGH and many are leaving. I sell on another site myself, less pressure, a better class of buyers, and so un-dramatic in all ways!  Maybe they need to cut some of the salaries at the top?????

by: Whatever

"We need a seller-owned marketplace, or our interests won't be the owners' primary concern."

yes we do - we're a smart bunch of folks why can't we collectively figure this out. The timing is perfect.

by: Ric

Can't for the life of me understand why eBay is thinking about including more third party providers when their past record is to eliminate them almost as soon as sellers find success utilizing them.

eBay is notorious for discontinuing third party services and attempting to replace them with their own inferior versions which confuse and alienate sellers.

by: RKTOYS

As usual, I didn't receive the survey.  It occurs to me, if eBay wants ideas, they should ask for them.  These imbecilic vague questions don't serve any purpose except to retroactively "support" whatever random uneducated guesses they made beforehand.

by: Snapped

"Your input will help us improve the information we communicate to sellers about Third Party Providers."

Why should sellers give a spit about what eBay has to say about third party providers? Can you say conflict of interest? Sure you can...

Who out there can still believe what they say about anything, or their 'technical savvy' over external particularly since their INTERNAL interfaces are so rickety?

They should be paying YOU in legal tender for contributing to their 'market research', not vacuous promises.

by: Knottybay

I have surveyed the landscape and it is barren....

by: walkinwillie

Why is everyone so cynical? eBay has every right to expand their product offering, be the default payment processor for their OWN website, etc. The only thing they do that really bothers me is when they increase fees - but they have the right to do that too. But as usual whenever eBay does anything at all, the posters come out and complain about it whether they know eBay's intentions or not. Like everyone I have a breaking point and if eBay ever crosses it I will leave them but I've been selling on there since 1997 and overall have had very few problems.

by: Lightning

@walkinwillie
It's a 10-80-10 formula (approximately)

10% of the eBay users HATE eBay, due to constant changes and money grabs causing their business to change for the worse  Less profitable, more work, more aggravation, becoming more eBay's business than their own.  They miss the good old days when things were fun, wild, and profitable.  Understandably so.

10% of eBay users LOVE it.  They are making good money, have high margin products that do well no matter WHAT the environment is.  Can't keep up with the demand.  Prefer paying eBay's 10-13% to Amazon's 15-25% (or is it 100% now?).  Or can't sell on Amazon at all because it is gated.  EBay is working for them, and life is good.

80% of eBay users just go about their business, selling professionally or casually, making a buck or two, getting rid of clutter around the house, etc. So it's all good.  If they are relatively new, they don't even know why the first 10% are complaining.  They don't have the same experience history.  

Usually the only users who will post here belong to one of the 10% groups.

by: Vigilant Eye On eBay

As eBay is planning on making managed payments compulsory, sellers should be given the option to have their payments forwarded to a PayPal account rather than a bank account if this is what works best for them.

Fund transfers to PayPal accounts will also eliminate potential issues for eBay sellers with existing PayPal Working Capital loans.

According to the recent ''New Internet Sales Tax changes that impact you'' email, in November 2019, for mandatory site collected state sales taxes, ''order totals sent for processing will reflect the gross order amount inclusive of tax [and] once settled, the tax amount will be automatically deducted for remittance to the applicable taxing authority''.

If eBay's plan is to remit the entire amount collected (i.e., inclusive of any mandatory site collected sales taxes) to sellers PayPal accounts, then debit the tax portion of the payment after transfer, the taxes collected will be subject to PayPal fees and (for some sellers) PayPal Working Capital loan repayment requirements.