Is anyone selling on ebay these days?

[Vinca]

I was thinking of going back to selling on ebay a bit and mentioned it to another dealer at the group shop. He's a prolific ebay seller all the time (well, maybe I should say prolific lister - his sales are average) and told me ebay is starting some new payment management thing where they appoint sort of an overseer of your account and collect the money and then disburse it to you into a bank account you have to give them. No more of the "just click on PayPal and you're done" way of operation. From my perspective, having been an off and on seller there since 1999, this is ebay up to its old tricks of just making life more complicated than it has to be. Any thoughts? Do any of you sell elsewhere that allows you to primarily be in control?

[WhiteTara]

1. they just got bought and I think

I'm going to wait to see what shakes down.

[mtngirl47]

2. I have an ebay store.

I don't work it too much in the summer because I'm busy with my tourist business. Sales are steady--more than enough every month to pay my ebay and paypal fees. In the winter I list every day and do enough to pay for Christmas and a couple of nice vacations!

You can still use paypal. They want you to let them process credit cards for you but I've just stayed with paypal.

[Vinca]

3. Thanks. That answers my main question about using PayPal. I prefer that, too.

[dem in texas]

4. Ebay was very Good to Us

We started selling on Ebay even before Paypal. We did very well selling antiques and collectibles. But after so many years, we got burnt out. Haven't sold on Ebay in about 1 1/2 years. Have booth at antique mall, doing okay, not the volume we had on Ebay -and many things that we sold on Ebay are not selling in our booth. Thinking about going back to Ebay again. Glad to know can still use Paypal.

Have jewelry listed on Etsy(made by me). It does well there and I will keep that up.

[Vinca]

5. I still haven't decided what to do yet, but I got a message from an ebay seller after I bought

something and they were bailing out and wanted me to look at the things they had listed. If you can still use PayPal, I don't see a problem, but time will tell I guess. Ebay used to be great before the megasellers came along. Maybe the key is to list hundreds of items and hope for a few sales out of it. I'm trying to sort through things and pick out the stuff I think might sell in that venue. I made the hard decision to give up my booths at the antique shop. It just wasn't profitable enough to make it worthwhile. I tried to hold on for a few months after it reopened because I don't want the place to go under, but I can't afford to do it forever.

[trueblue2007]

10. i was selling 1998-2000. i just sold little vintage stuff. i loved it

and for what i was selling, old games, toys, dolls, girly stuff, books, records. All old stuff. i made about 2,000 a month. hubby and i lived on my ebay money. now if i was selling the same things, i'd be lucky to make 3 hundred a month!!!

i don't think ebay is "great" anymore. i buy once in a while but i haven't sold since way back when.

[brer cat]

6. I got a notice from ebay that didn't mention PayPal

could still be used for deposit of $$ sold. They had a form for me to fill out which included SSN which we don't like to give out. PayPal has our SSN but I don't think we have ever given it to eBay since we use PayPal to receive and pay with eBay. The notice said my account would be cancelled if I didn't reply by Jan. 20.

[Vinca]

7. That sounds like it might be a phishing email. I'd double check with ebay if you can figure

out how to contact them. I still haven't sold again on ebay, but since I gave up my booths at the group shop last September I've got a roomful of stuff I could sell. I keep hoping life will go back to normal someday and I'll be able to do the booth thing again. Years ago I made some good money selling on ebay, but eventually it got to be a major hassle as they "improved" the site. Every time they did something it seemed to get worse. My final straw came when I sold an expensive vase to a person in London, England and they claimed they never got it, yada, yada, yada. I refunded their money and - lo and behold - a few weeks later the vase turned up at my local post office with all kinds of stamps on it from Great Britain that the recipient had been notified numerous times to pick it up and never bothered to. It really annoyed me. I ended up reselling it and only lost about $25 over all, but that was it for me.

[brer cat]

8. The message was on eBay's site on My eBay page.

I just don't see why it benefits eBay to direct deposit instead of letting me use PayPal which I have done without a hitch for decades.

[Vinca]

9. I don't understand either. At some point I'll have to check it out. I know I can still pay for

ebay purchases via PayPal so it's available. Why do I think they're somehow making some money off this scheme? LOL.