Broken Wagon

 So after a year and a half hiatus, I am back to resale. First, I tried to get into eBay's famously mismanaged payments. "Your name doesn't match the one on the account". "Change the name on account" and "we can't verify". So an 8 year old TRS account with 2,000 feedback and most importantly, no payment holds is now useless. I start a new account. 

I am pissed about this - because this is the fucking 3rd account I've had to tank because of eBay's archaic policies - my original account was started in  April of 1998 and should have had over 5,000 feedback by now, but because of kid glove buyer handling, well, here we are. 

I start new account, and rack up some buying feedback and establish it. This September, I list a few things to test the water. Of course 3 of the transactions are international. I not only have to pay some money out of pocket for postal fees, but am told "funds held until fucking November and all the way to December 6th. 

This is utter fucking bullshit - especially since eBay KNOWS that I am the holder of the aforementioned 8 year old account. I've called, I've messaged eBay for Business, I've sent in tax returns, I've verified the bank account - no dice. Simply because the 1099 Paypal name on my tax return does not match the eBay account. A CS rep says to me "You need to change your name to match the account"(!). Like hell, I am going to drive 11 miles to the SS office and change my fucking name AGAIN so that you assholes can then finally add 2+2. No thanks. You can already see that I have the same birthdate, address, first and middle name and even SS# and EIN# of the account holder. The only fucking difference is the last name on the 1099!

Today I finally got payment for shit I listed in September. Assholes. After fees and deferred shipping labels, I got $78 lousy bucks from selling $140 worth of shit. Fun.

Also the wonderful fall update happened - categories for dolls (my best seller) are now just "dolls" and "doll clothing". All the doll boards I belong to are erupting with anger about their saved searches and not being able to find the needle in the proverbial haystack. IE they can no longer find what they want to buy. Joy. 

Unfortunately, the ones who do find shit they want to buy try and lowball you to death.

No more Best Offer. I am unchecking that box permanently. I am sick of the BS. 

I list a complete outfit for an obscure 80's doll - ballpark sold on it is $19ish. I list it for $14.95 because now that I look like a noob I have to price shit low to hook buyers *headdesk*. 

Asshole tries to send me offer of $7.00 on the outfit. Uhhh no. I decline. They reoffer $10.00. $10.00 in the hand is worth $14.00 in the bush, I can let ONE go. I accept, and then get another offer of $20.00 for a dress that has 12 watchers on it and that recently sold for $60.00 consistently. I decline and state my reason - then I remove best offer from the dress.

Then I get an offer of $6.00 on something else I had listed for $14.95. WTF? Is it fun to be insulting or something? I decline and counter with $9.00. They counter with the original $6.00. Fuck you, pal. I decline and then proceed to remove Best Offer from everything I've listed. Fixed that wagon.