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A previous post by an administrator of the site claimed they had 300,000 active members. Whatever it meant by "active members" is unknown, buts it not showing up on the site as a quick addition of the total number of items available for sale was just over 615,000. I recall seeing some of the same exact stuff 1-2 years ago and its still unsold, but of course this would not represent the total number of items unsold as many of those have been removed from the site. How have quit the site?

I hate ebay, but at least they regularly have over 200 million items. I hate ebay's final value fees and paypal's fee which typically work out to a total of 12.9% of the item price and shipping + a $. 30 transaction fee, but I list items in auctions that need an actual audience. There is no traffic on this site to generate bids, especially for higher ticket items. Its an utter waste of time. If I need to list fixed price items why would I bother going out of my way to list on this site as it is highly inconvenient.

I can't indicate the type of payment I want to use on the listing form and am told I can't because I could be a potential criminal.

There bulk listing tool consisting of a text file is years behind the norm. Check out a tool like say GarageSale whereas I can construct thousands of html listings with a graphical user interface and embed images in the listings - uploading these to eBay whenever I want.

Exactly how do you print labels from this site? With eBay I click a button to print a label, edit the shipping weight and service if needed, and save the label as a pdf file and then print them out in bulk. If I have to go to the USPS web site and manually insert all this information or to the post office I would not even bother to sell the items in the first place as time is money.

Exactly how do I get a shipping label discount with this site? I hate ebay and paypal, but I end up getting a 37% discount with some shipping services over higher counter prices.

The staff of this site does not get it. Online sales is all about the time it takes to make the sale as time is money. It makes little difference that this site is free because it costs much much more in lost time. With 15 years of experience listing items is pretty much a assembly line; however, this site in its current form is a broken cog that slows down the machinery.

How to know if you've banned from their boards. You'll see the following message if you try to access their boards:

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In order to see their boards you'll need to use a web proxy as they ban you using your.

They will ban you for pointing errors, problems with products, printing errors, making suggestions - anything that makes the company's management look like the idiots they are.

The first part of their company strategy was to attract every day designers who do not represent major corporations. This was done to build their business up to the point of attracting corporate designs from such companies as Disney.

The second part of their strategy is to continue to brain wash small time designers in staying with the site under the guise that the company really cares about about them. At the same time they start to pace restrictions on small time designers such as getting rid of custom store fronts while offering more features to big corporate firms such as Disney.

The third phase will be to replace the small time designers altogether. It makes no sense for them to pay small time designers a commission when they can hire people in China or a 3rd world company to design things for a $1.00 a day or less, with the designs belonging to Zazzle and not the designers they hire.

We've already seen a large number of designers getting their own designs ripped off by Chinese sellers who place pirated designs on Amazon. It does little good to complain as the same sellers are up and running in multiple stores in a blink of an eye.

This is the same strategy eBay used. Use mom & pop sellers to build their site. Attract corporate sellers and squeeze out the small time sellers. Attract Chinese sellers to further squeeze out the small time domestic sellers who built the site.

Has your local post office reduced its hours or completely closed? Well, guess who is partially responsibly for that? Yep, ebay. As you know, eBay strongly encourages sellers to print USPS shipping labels directly from eBay or PayPal. Sure, USPS gets it money form these labels, but this gets reported as general postal income. Your local post office does not get credit for these shipping labels. So when it comes times to make a budget for your local post office its revenues are actual shorted by all the eBay and PayPal labels printed by residents of your local community. Thus, using eBay and PayPal labels helps close your local post office or shorten its hours. But eBay and PayPal are not done there, because eBay has also negotiated special shipping discounts with USPS so that its sellers can receive discounts on shipping that are cheaper than the rates you pay at the post office. This practice also reduces postal income and forces any revenue from mail not related to ebay to subsidize eBay and PayPal labels. The Post Office is acting if its needs eBay to survive when its the other way around. To make up the revenue lost by such transactions USPS has now started a new program to allow people from Hong Kong (China) to ship small 1st class items to the U.S. for practically nothing. USPS gets a small cut of each of these packages so it hopes to make up some of the money it gives away on the ebay label discounts and other misfortunes. Thus USPS is also helping to kill jobs in the U.S. by allowing Chinese firms to ship items into the country via ultra cheap shipping rates. EBay has also forbidden the mention of money orders in listings, which was another cash cow for USPS. Ebay also now offers by default an alternative shipping insurance, which competes with postal insurance and further helps to kill of postal income. EBay was publicly against major reforms to the post office designed to help save the service after it was hit by Congress (who is forcing it to fund the cost retirees for decades into the future).

1. Massive fraud under their so called "free shipping program" that actually produces higher costs for consumers and thus higher fees for ebay.

2. Massive fraud regarding fixed price items and the requirement for immediate payment to prevent sellers from issuing manual invoices for combines items in order for the sellers to be overcharged for sellers fees because each item's shipping amount incurs a commission form ebay as opposed to a lessor combined total.

3. Repeated over billing of fees, even double billing,

4. Repeated billing for services that the seller did not order or that ebay is not legally entitled to.

5. Holding credit cards hostage in their system. If you have a outstanding balance will refuse to allow you to remove your credit card from their site - you either have to provide them with another card or use paypal. The solution is to have your credit card company block ebay OR to cancel the card entirely and have your credit card company issue you a new one so ebay can't then us it.

6. India based customer service that one has a hard time understanding half the time and whose job it is to screw you over.

7. Hiding of seller items in search results.

How is not eBay's current ceo not in jail?