eBay

EBay is the old dinosaur of the online shopping experience. You would think they would do like other platforms to keep up with the times and even have their own shipping platform by now. Whether you're buying or selling it has because a disappointment. It's like the wish.com of American companies.

Me and my friend started selling his unopened birthday present ties on ebay. Some were 300 dollars new and others were rare. The one problem we have ever had was when someone bid 150 for a 150 tie and they won it (of course). But then ebay pulled them off the site because they were selling items illegally. We had to sell it to the second highest bidder at a price of 115. No problems with buying stuff ever though. So buy away, but always do research to see if the product actually exists.

I love this site for slightly used designer clothing! Some items even still have store tags on them! Shipping is free with any $49 purchase or you pay a flat rate of $4.99 per order. Can't beat the very low prices of the beautiful quality clothing on this site! Items range from about $10 and up! They also buy your used clothing! They will send you a postage paid bag to ship your items. Then they'll contact you to let you know how much they'll pay you! You can get paid by check or through PayPal or in store credit... whatever you want. I've purchased many items and LOVED them all! Great customer service also!

Ebay refunded one of our buyers without having our item returned, leaving us with no product or payment. We understand the need to allow for refunds, but not without a return. This is a dangerous situation.

Ebay is simply a money grab, Has been since it's inception. Encourages and profits greatly from fraudulent practices especially in the selling of illegal counterfeit items and successfully hides behind it's "venue only status" and treats it's sellers with zero respect. Changes it's policies constantly to only advantage itself. Potential buyers and sellers seriously beware and understand the risk you assume on every transaction you engage in. Buyers especially should only fund their payments with major credit cards for the protections they afford against online fraud.

The process Twice uses is fantastic. Request a prepaid label or bag and it comes and you ship off your clothes and it's out if your hands. However, I sent 18 items and they rejected 6 of them, mostly sighting "stained" as the reason for rejection. None of my clothing was stained. They can say whatever they want and you probably won't reject the offer because you have to pay for shipping the clothing back. I received only $64 for 12 premium items, which should definitely have been more if they accepted my not-stained "stained" items. Just don't get your hopes up about the value you get back! I'll be interested to see how much they'll be selling my items for on the site if they only gave me a few dollars for each. Overall: easier than selling at a consignment shop but not sure I would use them again.

E-bay and pay pal allow uninformed buyers to pay without being invoiced or billed for a product they can not possibly pick up or take possession of thus causing days and days of hassle. The pay pal foreign representatives do not always have the language skills to deal with hearing impaired people. Included in my torture was a foreign rep. That could not deal with an apple computer running safari. When told to respond by e-mail they just ignore me. I have had more satisfactory dealings than bad ones.

Ridiculous! No seller protection from unscrupulous buyers. Will never use the site to buy or sell again.

Though, if you feel like ripping some people off, go ahead and order and claim it's not in good condition. It is fun to make a struggling human being already selling everything they own to pay rent pay shipping to you, then shipping back, but not return all of the product! Order a big lot and only return part of something and keep the rest for free! Yay! Don't worry, Ebay will do NOTHING for the seller.

I bought a portable power bank phone charger, it stopped working after 2 months but eBay was useless, no help or assistance in trying to get the seller to even reply to me.
My main tip would be not to buy anything expensive or electronic from eBay.

I have been buying and selling on eBay for over 20 years. It has been a mostly good experience until now. They have changed the search engine so much that it is nothing like what it used to be. All the categories (dolls, teddy bears, clothing, parts, wholesale) and sub categories (antique, by material, by maker, artist dolls ect... all gone! Why? What is the point of changing something in such a way that makes it harder to browse and search for just what you need. It's frustrating as a buyer, but actually frightening as a seller, to think it will be difficult for buyers to find your items. Especially in an auction setting. This has made me extremely hesitant to even list. I know there are thousands of people, maybe tens of thousands, feeling the same way I do. I can imagine ebay has to be feeling this in their profits, know how many people are negatively affected by these changes. For God sakes ebay! Put it back the way it was!

Competitors will pay bidders to submit bad reviews to eliminate competition and restrict new sellers from obtaining a higher selling limit or worse ban from selling. Sellers that sale restricted items on a large scale does not have their items removed when reported, but the little guys will get their listings removed. Beware ebay will issue a refund customers without seller consent whenever they file a complaint even though the terms are clear stated that purchase is not refundable. J

I've been shopping on ebay for maybe 7 or 8 years, mostly for vintage/pre-owned clothing and shoes and bike parts. I've purchased a few other random things as well.

Overall, my transactions have been positive: I've only had a few items that were either in poor condition or not as described. For items where size and condition really matters, I ask sellers questions before making a purchase - generally, they are happy to respond and do so within a day or two.

For the most part, my purchases have arrived quickly - including a dress from the UK and some hardware from Canada! (I'm in the US.)