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Reasons why eBay sucks for sellers:

1. Not allowed to use anything but PayPal. eBay bought out PayPal, and in a bid to earn more revenue, is now forcing everyone to use it for all the payments. You get banned if you use WesternUnion, WireTransfer, or Money Order.

2. PayPal holds payments from eBay items for 21 days. Gives you a friendly message saying "ship your item, and once we know buyer has received it, we'll release your funds." Great, thank you PayPal for telling me how to do business. Who cares if I need that money now, I'll let you dictate when I get to use it.

If buyer leaves positive feedback, it un-holds your funds. But buyers don't have any incentive to do that. They're not the ones with their balls caught in a trap. So I have to bribe my buyers to leave positive feedback so I can get the money I was paid.

3. Ridiculous fees: eBay takes $5 from a $40 sale (12.5%). Then you have to pay PayPal another 2.75% for receiving the money from you. And since eBay owns PayPal, means they get paid twice for doing NOTHING.

4. Won't let me filter out s*** buyers. As a seller, I'm not allowed to say "I only want to accept bids/purchases from people who had an eBay account more than 3 months, or who have over 20 feedback, and >95% positive." The best I can do is filter out accounts that have a negative rating. Great, thanks a lot for giving me all this choice. And if one of those scammers purchases from me, and I cancel the sale because I don't trust new eBay users, I still have to pay the listing fee. What - a - joke.

5. Technically, won't allow the sale of electronic items (example: mmorpg game characters, mmorpg game items). Even though a major part of eBay users want to sell electronic items, and there is a huge community that is willing to buy those electronic items, eBay rejects this community. But at the same time, allowing it to happen. Meaning if there is a dispute, they will blame the seller for starting an auction.

Electronic items are the best item for eBay to sell because there is no shipping fee for customers, no duty fee, and because they are readily available. But no, they actually think I'm going to sell a computer or iPod on there, or something. Because I like getting half-rate offers for my items. Psht, I can go on Craigslist to sell that s*** -- where I get paid cash instantly, and no 12.5% listing fee. But eBay thinks I'm actually going to sell it there? Yeah right, wake up.

f*** eBay. I hope they die in a giant lawsuit.