Auction Power Guide

Face it… Ebay is screwing their sellers. Do you want to get even? Start charging higher shipping rates and lower sale prices. This will give you a lower listing fee and lower FVF, which means you save money… but even better… Ebay doesn’t make as much off the sale.

Ebay announced they were lowering listing fees and giving free pics, but they made up for it by almost doubling the FVFs

And, now w/ this new feedback system, the buyers are walking all over the sellers. Here’s some problems I’ve incountered since:

~Increase in Non-Payment disputes. And, the buyers don’t care b/c they know they can’t get a negative for non-pay.
~Feedback comment can NOT conflict with a Positive Rating. In other words, you can NOT leave a "SLOW TO PAY" comment in feedback. If reported, Ebay will remove the comment.
~Buyer giving seller a negative and sabataging Star Ratings b/c a Non-Pay dispute was filed.
~Buyer demanding to return item b/c of buyer error

Do You have more???

I absolutely LOVED the irony of the email I received from eBay… to the effect of "consider offering free shipping to attract buyers.." Yeah RIIIIIGHT!!! There’s no such thing as "free shipping"… I found that so offensive there aren’t even words for it!
You have to watch how much you pad your shipping.. they are watching that now too…

The REAL question should be… "What sites are realistic alternatives to eBay?" … I’ve cut my buying/selling on there by at least 90%… abebooks, paperbackswap, etc are where I tend to do most of mine…