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Interesting. Also, I don’t know how many of your readers are new eBay sellers – I have been selling on eBay now for 10 years, so I’m well used to it – but I set up my wife’s first selling account for her list night and was simply amazed at how hard it was. And that’s for me, an experienced seller, too. There were supplementary agreements, becasue she wants to sel internationally. She wants to use PayPal for her seling fees: there’s a compulsory agreement that she had to sign up to to let eBay raid her PayPal account. Sure, you can opt out of that later but still it’s a bit harsh. I find that there are selling restrictions – 10 items per month for new sellers. There’s also a delay in listing – 20 hours after the listing, I can now see the listing on eBay. But it took them that long to get it on there – and she has paid for 7 days’ visibility, not 6.2 or whatever.

Plus there are of course PayPal holds on new sellers, which means she has to send her goods out without any assurance she will get her money. The evil PayPal/eBay unholy alliance at work again….

What a palaver. This is simply no longer easy!

Help me shop? Help me sell, more like!!

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Tony says:

7 September 2012 at 1:45 pm

Interesting. Also, I don’t know how many of your readers are new eBay sellers – I have been selling on eBay now for 10 years, so I’m well used to it – but I set up my wife’s first selling account for her list night and was simply amazed at how hard it was. And that’s for me, an experienced seller, too. There were supplementary agreements, becasue she wants to sel internationally. She wants to use PayPal for her seling fees: there’s a compulsory agreement that she had to sign up to to let eBay raid her PayPal account. Sure, you can opt out of that later but still it’s a bit harsh. I find that there are selling restrictions – 10 items per month for new sellers. There’s also a delay in listing – 20 hours after the listing, I can now see the listing on eBay. But it took them that long to get it on there – and she has paid for 7 days’ visibility, not 6.2 or whatever.

Plus there are of course PayPal holds on new sellers, which means she has to send her goods out without any assurance she will get her money. The evil PayPal/eBay unholy alliance at work again….

What a palaver. This is simply no longer easy!

Help me shop? Help me sell, more like!!