I bought a load of stuff. I listed said stuff. One of the dolls immediately got a 0 feedback bidder on it, and I cringe. During the 5 days that the auction ran, she got 1 feedback, so I was like "Okay, MAYBE this has hope." Said bidder "won" the doll.
Day 1 - Crickets.
Day 2 - Crickets.
Day 3 (11 at night) -
I turn on my desktop and add her to the ever-growing blocked bidder list. I was about to just sigh and cancel and then I think to myself - this bitch has wasted 2 days in which I could have relisted the damned thing - fuck her. I should just ride this bitch til she gets an unpaid strike. Why the fuck should I let her off the hook? Fuck her and her theoretical "daughter". She had 5 days beforehand in which she could have canceled her bid as well but decided to forge on and waste my time. Meanwhile I am answering 30,000 questions from another potential buyer about said doll because she had asthma and was worried about pet dander. I don't know what it is about that doll but I am getting the feeling that she will attract a dickhead no matter what.
I had a teddy bear that got "sold" twice before it finally actually sold and now it is lost in the CA postal system...when you have a problem with an item once, it becomes a bad luck magnet.
As for the cancellation BS...
I hate that ebay lets them off the hook if they ask for a cancellation now. It's probably pointless to wait because they let people sign in as "guests" to buy shit. She'll just ditch that account and make a new one. I don't even know why feedback and rules are a thing for buyers because it's the fuckin' wild west out there - they just do whatever they want with no consequences anymore and fuck the sellers - and ebay is panicking and wondering why the stock continues to tank.
Sellers sometimes have to procure inventory. Sometimes we are paying buyer's premiums and taxes to an auction house and state.
Then when we sell, we get hit with fees and random listing "innovations" from ebay/Etsy, then have to navigate flaky buyers - there is constant time wasting, cancellations, threats to try and get discounts, some lame excuse why they suddenly don't want something and then our bank accounts get robbed of the entire amount no question asked and we're paying return shipping too! I fight it, but last year I got ripped off nearly half a mortgage payment - one item was exactly as described but ebay made me refund him and gave me lame excuses about it and the other was lost by the Italian Postal Service.
The USPS is robbing us all blind on top of it all. I am one of those sellers that takes a hit on shipping to try and keep costs low for buyers, but it goes unnoticed - I've got less than 5 stars on "shipping cost".
We pay a lot and get very little in return all because someone has had to pander to some Wall St. suits since the company went public. None of the CEOs since Whitman have had any good ideas, and it's been a sinking ship since she left. It's getting old. More and more people are returning to brick and mortar and flea markets because of it - we just don't make enough to justify listing on ebay anymore.
Etsy's offsite ads are the biggest turn-off over there - forced into a program that makes you pay nearly 30% of a sale because you are good at selling? GTFOH with that shit.
