Fuck You, Ebay: Archive

Fuck You, Ebay

April 2012

7 posts

USER SUBMISSION: Some things ALL ebay buyers...

I have never lost “big bucks” like some of you do, but I do have some useful insights that may help all of you. First of all, eBay email support is USELESS. Those people LITERALLY copy/paste the help documentation and email it to you. They don’t know anything and will NOT help you. Any thing happens, CALL. 2nd, be EXTRA, EXTRA careful when buying internationally, ESPECIALLY...

USER SUBMISSION: Definitely eBay is evil!

I have a bad experience with eBay purchasing. I bought several items from eBay seller ryesun , when I received them I found they are not as good as described. So I asked to return them and shipped back by insured mail. The seller received it and physically disappeared. I tried to complain with eBay and they asked me to give a tracking number. I do not have it while I got a dilivery confirmation...

USER SUBMISSION: Fees & Fees & Fees

Can anyone tell me why Paypal cannot send a simple statement of their fees monthly like ebay does? They make it so difficult to calculate their percentages. If someone knew how much Paypal and Ebay get, they would have second thoughts on whether or not to list items with their services. Does anyone know of an alternative to ebay to sell items? Not happy with ebay or Paypal but feel trapped.

USER SUBMISSION: I Got Robbed On EBay

Hello dear Reader, I got robbed on the eBay. Please read so you don’t get in the same situation I did. That’s how it happened: I purchased an IPhone in February. It was a good deal, except it was going to be shipped from China, so the delivery date was two months. After about 52 days, I logged in eBay and saw that the seller I purchased from is “no longer registered on eBay”, and...

USER SUBMISSION: eBay's NEW WAY to make you a...

Believe it or not, eBay is enacting a new program that is meant to make you a better seller. Check this out: the buyer pays for the item immediately. eBay KEEPS THE MONEY until you provide a shipping number and they can prove it’s been shipped to the buyer, only THEN do you receive the payment. As I was told on the phone by a supposed eBay supervisor, you can have a lean on your payPal...

USER SUBMISSION: ... and the Saga Drags On!!!

You may have read about how eBay booted me off last year, claiming i was bootlegging my own items, ones MY COMPANY MAKES!!! Well, here goes another loopy tale from that account. Last August I sold an item to a guy in the UK. It was paid and tracked through eBay, THEY HAVE THE TRACKING INFO RIGHT THERE IN THEIR OWN PAYPAL!!! This was 7 months ago. They just sent me an email claiming the buyer never...

USER SUBMISSION: Screwed again by Ebay

I have been trying to figure out selling on Ebay for over a year now (I’ve bought and sold since 2004, but over the last year I’ve tried to build a competitive Ebay store.) I am currently nearing the 2000 items listed mark in my store. I have tried doing everything Ebay has in their policies. I have never had any problems with domestic buyers other than a couple that failed to read the...

March 2012

2 posts

USER SUBMISSION: Fees so far: $0. BULLSHIT!

About a year and a half ago, my paypal account surprised me with a “random security check” after logging in to check if a payment had cleared. I went through the security check, which then asked me to update my password. WTF?! Anyway, about a week later i get the same “random security check” and again my password needs to be changed. By this time im pretty pissed off, but i...

USER SUBMISSION: First and Time eBay User

I opened an easy account a week ago. My first one. I am stuck in a bad contract with Verizon with a POS phone. Checked out eBay for an IPhone and saw a listing I wanted to bid on. I bid, I won. Excellent. I had a few days earlier created my first Paypal account. I paid through PayPal. Sweet! Just got to wait for the item to ship now. PayPal says because I used bank account instead of credit card I...

February 2012

4 posts

USER SUBMISSION: Suspended from ebay for...

Ebay suspended my account because I choose to complain about items I bought from some of their sleezy sellers. I bought several things, spent quite a bit of money using their site. I bought things from sellers all over the world, and some sales were fair, others not so much. On the ones I purchased from scam artists, I filed complaints, and ebay sent me a warning letter telling me I could not give...

Reminder: Must Use Valid Email To Submit

If you spend the time to submit a story, but don’t include a valid email address, your story will be deleted. We don’t want you to waste your time typing, so don’t do it if you can’t give a real email address. F.U.E. Admin

USER SUBMISSION: fuck you scambay and scampal

i have nowhere else to vent or make my voice heard, but i just got fucked by a lying cheaing motherfucking buyer!!!! the son of a bitch claims my product is “not as received” on a no return sale…then returns a different product that was defective. fucking ebay and paypal holds my funds and rules in their favor w/ no appeals process. FUCK U EBAY/PAYPAL AND THAT FUCKING CUNT...

USER SUBMISSION: Pissed

I don’t know how anyone does business with ebay or paypal. They are a bunch of con artists. I used them for the first time to sell a remote control helicopter. It cost $6.00 to list it. The bid ended at $400.00 which I was OK with. Then I paid $56.00 for shipping because I stupidly put free shipping(my bad). However, paypal charged $11.82 just for using their services (rip off). Then...

January 2012

8 posts

USER SUBMISSION: Fuck ebay and Fuck Paypal. What...

I signed up for eBay about a week ago to sell some old music gear so I can upgrade. Well, I was having a lot of success and sold 3 items in that week and decided to buy an upgraded microphone. First of all, fuck ebay for those huge insertion and back-end fees (aptly named if you ask me) Anyway, 20 minutes after I buy the mic I get an email from ebay saying that my account had been “cancelled...

USER SUBMISSION: Ebay doesn't want me as a member....

i think ebay hates me. i was banned two days after registering my account. they sent me an email telling me my account was suspended and to call for more information about the issue. i called, was on hold for over an hour and then was told my account was suspended indefinitely and they could not tell me why. why, ebay? why!? why are you so unfair?

USER SUBMISSION: eBay is the Biggest Scam yet.

I have been selling on eBay for 3 years now and I am a PowerSeller and I WAS a Top-Rated Seller until they decided to scam everyone for there money. I have 100% positive feedback from my customers with ZERO negative Feedback. I Have an AMAZing Detailed Seller Rating(DSR) of 5.0/5.0, 4.9/5.0, 4,8/5.0, and 4.9/5.0. But last month I was scammed by 9 US eBay buyers because they would order products...

USER SUBMISSION: Fuck eBay indeed!!

I have held an eBay account for over 10 years. Always knew their fee’s were over the top, but today was the final straw. They decided that I don’t spend enough money per month and have downgraded my credit limit from $2000USD to $100. What in the fuck am I going to buy with $100? My feedback score was 100% positive with 270+ feedback, which is pretty high for a non-business type I...

USER SUBMISSION: Outrageous Backend Fees

I hadn’t sold anything on eBay for a while because their fees have been getting out of hand. But I had an iPod that I wanted to sell since I got an iPhone for Christmas and since they were offering free listings I thought “what the hell.” I sold the iPod for $140 + $10 shipping. Ebay charged me a total of $14.40 for the final value of the auction which included $0.95 charge on my...

USER SUBMISSION: Thanks for the fees. oh and...

I’m a high school kid, and in the end; with their ridiculous fees fuckfaceeBay makes more money off of me than I do off of my customers. Sweeeet. Not to mention I’ve been a paypal customer forever now, and they still hold my funds…how am I supposed to pay for half the shipping when you hold my payments. Not to mention, my funds aren’t released after it is confirmed via...

USER SUBMISSION: ebay truly sucks

I sold a modem to a buyer and shipped it on 22nd Dec. The buyer claimed he had not received the item on 5th Jan and opened a case. ebay, who did not investigate the issue, refunded him without my permission. I called USPS and they told me that the delay is fairly common due to the holiday season. I called ebay to explain and its stupid rep. disconnect my call. ebay charges its sellers a lot but...

Paypal orders destruction of rare violin

Original posting on regretsy.com » “As you know, I have had my share of issues with Paypal recently, and while I appreciate the effort they made to do the right thing in our case, I still have a lot of misgivings about them as a company. This e-mail didn’t help. Dear Helen Killer, I love your site and was thrilled to hear of your “win” against PayPal. I recently had a...

December 2011

6 posts

USER SUBMISSION: The Resolution of a three month...

You’ve been reading about how eBay took down my own product because people complained that they owned it. Mind you - visiting www.buttonoriginal.com and visiting www.buttonsforbenefits.com, you can see that i clearly own and have the rights to distribute all that i do. Still, I received two emails, almost simultaneously from eBay today, after a three month battle with them over removing my...

USER SUBMISSION: ... and the horror continues ...

So in this entire incident that has now taken more than 7 weeks to get a response on, I finally got to someone who wanted to listen to my tale of woes with eBay taking all my items down and refusing to answer to it. she told me that SHE has to send a letter FOR me, I can’t send it. Why did it take 7 weeks to get someone to tell me this? So I was told I would get a response in 24-72 hours....

Transactions under $10 now FREE with Dwolla

If you didn’t read our post about Dwolla, the alternative to paypal, read it now. We’re posting this to tell you that all transactions under $10 are now FREE (no transaction fee) with Dwolla, as of December 1, 2011. And all above $10 are still just 25 cents, no matter how large the transaction is. Here’s the blog post from Dwolla » Love, F.Y.E.

USER SUBMISSION: More on eBay taking me down

As the drama continues, three weeks of not getting response, I finally got a girl in Utah to talk on the telephone. I explained that I keep getting people in the Phillipines and they offer me no help. She listened to my story for ten minutes and finally she told me that she couldn’t help me but she could patch me through directly to the person who could. She put me through to the...

DWOLLA - New payment method, no credit cards

We here at FuckYouEbay.com are very excited about this proven new payment method, DWOLLA. It circumvents all credit cards, meaning there are no transaction fees from said cards. Unlike paypal and other online payment methods, which built their systems on top of credit card companies. Dwolla charges a flat fee of 25 cents per transaction, regardless of how large the payment. Sending $1? 25 cent...

USER SUBMISSION: this is fucked.

first of all, everyone needs to know that ebay owns paypal. it is an evil empire. add up the cost of the entire transaction, from ebay to paypal, and tell me if its worth it. anyways, i got the same 21 day hold on my paypal money for issuing a refund. no problems, just a refund. so paypal is holding the $ for the entire transaction (the item, shipping) and when the hold is released, they dont give...

November 2011

11 posts

USER SUBMISSION: The End of the Plight!!

So this is the end of my recent battle, as posted on Fuck YouEbay! A quick recap - Just before the big selling holiday season, literally the day before the American Thanksgiving Holiday and the famed “Cyber-Monday”, my personal items were taken down from my eBay listings. Now, you can’t say it was a conflict with licensing, I MADE THE ITEMS WITH MY OWN BUTTON COMPANY - and yet...

USER SUBMISSION: Following Up On My Previous Post...

I took the time to email eBay about the issue as was suggested. Remember, they banned me from selling my own company’s product as they felt I was bootlegging an original product that I created a company around and that I OWN! When I emailed eBay, I asked them why my listings had been taken down. I explained that I own the company and these are MY COMPANY’S ITEMS. Their response was a...

USER SUBMISSION: EBAY ARE CUNTS

Ebay can go and fuck themselves! they have removed all sellers rights and im fed up of getting a automated fucking responses!They restrict and suspend accounts for no reason!Getting the reason is like getting blood out of a stone!Ive been restricted for selling “copies” ALLLLLLL MY ITEMS ARE 100% genuine!! I FUCKINGGGGGGG HATE THEM SOME NEW COMPETITION NEED TO LAUNCH AN AUCTION SITE...

USER SUBMISSION: eBay bans MY OWN PRODUCT

As a seller on eBay, one of the item types I provide my customers is a Button Set for physical issues, including Breast Cancer, Leukemia, Bone Marrow Cancer, Lupus … etc etc. I have maintained the listings and provided top notch customer service for the past year with NO ISSUES at all. I quickly achieved a Power Seller Rating and was deemed an above average seller. Yay for me! Good products,...

USER SUBMISSION: EBAY MEMBER SINCE 1999 - EBAY...

I HAVE BEEN AN EBAY MEMBER SINCE 1999. I HAVE DONE WELL OVER 5000 AUCTIONS AND HAVE PAID EBAY AND PAYPAL THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF FEES. I HAVE A 99.3% RATING. THE .7% IS FROM EBAY MEMBERS THAT HAVE BEEN ON EBAY FOR 6 MONTHS OR LESS MOSTLY. SO EBAY DECIDES THAT I CAN’T SELL ON EBAY ANY MORE AFTER 12 YEARS OF SELLING THOUSANDS OF ITEMS WITH ZERO, I MEAN ZERO PROBLEMS….EBAY CAN...

USER SUBMISSION: eBay Employees Selectively ban...

Many ebay employees sell items on ebay and also have friends and family that sell items on ebay. These same ebay employees then find whatever policy violation that they selectively choose to enforce (such as electronic delivery etc) and they ONLY selectively enforce the ebay policies against competitor sellers to reduce selling competition and increase the ebay employee sellers profits. There...

USER SUBMISSION: EBay Must Be Stopped

I recently sold a brand-new bag on E-Bay. Within less than a week, the buyer apparently suffered buyer’s remorse and wanted to bypass my no returns policy. She sent me an e-mail alleging that the item was damaged, etc…when it clearly was not. I refused her return and, predictably, she opened a dispute with E-Bay. Within ONE HOUR, E-Bay had “investigated” the claim and...

USER SUBMISSION: Ebay and buyer fucked me

i had some old stage lights for sale. nothing big. i was asking $50 for them. they cost me $40 to ship. the buyer ask for more pictures. i take more pictures up close and detailed and send them. he bids and purchases them. when he gets them he freaks out and sends me an email saying they are missing parts and not what he expected. he files a complaint ebay rules in his favor. i told him to keep...

USER SUBMISSION: Another seller gets an anal...

Sold an electrical item, the type you have to hardwire in, to a buyer. It was new in the box. He emails me and says it doesn’t work, but no proof shown. I offer him refund of purchase price plus a few extra bucks because I was nice telling him he can keep the item. He escalates to Ebay and they decide to give him full refund including full shipping he paid….and Ebay said he can keep...

USER SUBMISSION: Sellers Beware! eBay and PayPal...

I’ve been a member of eBay for over ten years now. I have a 100% positive feedback as both seller/buyer. I have had not one single complaint from a customer. I have opened a total of four cases against buyers who did not pay. So, one would think that I am a pretty important customer with eBay and their accomplice, PayPal…right? WRONG! Without any warning whatsoever, I go to my...

USER SUBMISSION: Yeah, fuck this shit!

Okay, so I used to buy shit from ebay, like back in the late 90’s, and back then ebay seemed like it was only for people who needed to unloaded a few of things that they had lying around. You’d place your bid and try to win.If you won…great. Now you’d send your money order and wait a little longer. No big deal. Then everyone was happy. (ALSO, I’D LIKE TO POINT...

September 2011

5 posts

ATTN: People Submitting Stories

1) If you use a fake email address, your item will be deleted, not posted. Also, you are an idiot. 2) If you actually think it’s smart to submit a story on how to rip off sellers on ebay, your item will be deleted, not posted. Also, you are an idiot. 3) Use SPELLCHECK. If your story is unreadable, it will not be posted.

User Submission: EBAY DOES NOT CARE ABOUT SELLERS

So, we sold an HTC EVO to a guy in Cali (we’re in Texas). It was no more than 2 days after it was sold, that he was harassing us, asking where his item was, that it hadn’t arrived yet. Well no duh it hadn’t arrived, it had been 2 days and he only paid for ground shipping. The day before he gets it (now 3 days after purchase), he tries to open up a claim that item is not received....

User Submission: eBay makes my blood BOIL!

Isn’t eBay supposed to be a venue where sellers and buyers meet to buy and sell? Sure isn’t today. I am primarily am a seller and have been on eBay for 8 years. In that time, I’ve noticed things get progressively from bad to worse. The seller does NOT have any rights at all, and all the power is shifted to the buyer & eBay at about 40/60. The seller has 0. They have...

User Submission: America Needs to Stop Ebay

Ebay has become a monster of epic proportions. They do what they please and they have monopolized the online auction market. Ebay’s customer support system is so screwed up it’s nearly impossible to even voice your concerns about the ridiculous listing and final sale fees. I’m fairly sure Ebay will fail in the near term due to their arrogant one sided business practices, if...

User Submission: Fuck Ebays final fees these days

So I’m unemployed and figured that I should sell some stuff on ebay for some cash. So I post a smartphone I had against my better judgement. I knew the fees had changed but I never expected it would have been this bad… Final bid: approx. $200 Paypal’s cut: 6.46 (thanks ebay! FUCKERS!) Final fee charged by ebay: $19. So I got 13% of my item’s worth taken away. Ebay is...

April 2011

3 posts

User Submission: BIG FUCKING SCAM

I started selling on ebay and after being charged $400 to sell $800 worth of product I starting thinking about how to maybe lower my costs. So I started charging high prices for my shipping and lowering my prices in the auction box to start at .99 to lower my final value fees. So get this, ebay bids on my auctions for 4 high dollar sports cards. When I send the invoice to the purchaser, I give him...

User Submission: Worse than the Post Office - Is...

Ebay offers the worst telephone customer service I have ever experienced. The bad customer service has wasted hours of my time (causing me to lose money because I stay on hold for endless periods of time) and has caused me to run up a huge telephone bill because the clerks are incompetent in basic critical reasoning and are discourteous (ignoring questions, repeating themselves instead of...

User Submission: eBay staff are insider trading,...

Another victim of Ebay’s totalitarian, iron fist dictatorship: “yes this is true, i was an ebay seller since 2007. i used to sell network unlock codes for mobile phones. at the bigging there was no issue but from last october there was 1 compitator who was selling cheaper then me so i also start to sell cheap and then ebay suspended my account saying that i did feedback manipulation...

March 2011

1 post

User Submission: Class Action Lawsuit against...

I have been a member of Ebay since 2001 with 100% positive feedback and a Silver Power Seller rating. I’ve sold everything from new, high-end watches to software and shampoo. I made an extra $1K to $3K a month of Ebay for quite a while. I’ve finally had enough of their shit - I’m done…absolutely finished with them. They have monopolized the online auction business and have...

February 2011

2 posts

User Submission: stolen uk government property on...

I’ll mak ethis short and sweet as ebay has taken up too much of my time already….. I advised ebay uk repeatedly that seller’s were selling stolen uk government property on their site, Eg Prison issue clothing etc.. The reply i got was:- Are you a solicitor or police officer? I replied no„, to which i was basically told to go f*ck myself! Now giving that ebay were made...

User Submission: Ebay tossed me under the bus

This is an email I sent to a bout 35 email addresses I collected. Sent it out 4 times. NOT ONE reply. Not one. Sent it again tonight and the black list I am know on is getting longer ever time it bounces back. Ebay is hands down the worst company. What really ticks me off is that I had attended several focus groups prior. Let me attend a few now ! Dear Sir/Madam, This letter is with regard to...

January 2011

1 post

User Submission: Unbelievable!

I haven’t been using Ebay to sell anything since they changed the rules and don’t allow sellers to put neg feedback on dodgy buyers. I have bought a couple of things though, and thought things were going ok. That is, until I got the email this evening saying Ebay have opened a case against me - apparently I didn’t PAY by Paypal, so Ebay thinks I haven’t paid, and the...