I can't believe what a ripoff ebay/paypal is...

seriously.

Elaborate? Do you mean the ~7% or so it takes when selling something?

the rediculous fees, the way they force you into using paypal, how they hold your money for 21 days…

how the seller has almost no protection

+1

EDIT : good for buyers, shitty for sellers.

I dislike the platform but since i have made thousands off of it as a programmer I can’t knock it. The only way that it killed me was being paid via paypal from england, Poland, and Germany… 2.5% transaction fee + 6% currency conversion fee!!!

read this shit-

http://www.paypalsucks.com/

I fucking hate accepting paypal , I sold a guy $1000 bucks worth of cds and sent him a list of the titles, when he got them he claimed he was 17 cds short (I had counted double cds as 2 cds) but again he had a list and everything on the list was on there

I told him to get fucked and he put in a dispute with paypal claiming the cd booklets had “indent marks” from the cases

Paypal INSTANTLY froze my acct and put me in the red for $1000

Basically this dude had me over a barrel

I emailed the dispute people and called over the phone (try finding their phone #) and they just didnt give a fuck

It drug on for a few weeks and I had to cave in and give him 17 more cds he was not entitled to in order to have my bank acct restored

from now on for items over $50 I dont take paypal, money order only

welcome to 2005

so don’t use it?

its now great to buy on, terrible to sell.

I refuse to use Paypal

ebay has slowly been screwing sellers over more and more over the years.

Paypal is basically a monopoly…

Hate something change something! Some developer needs to make a new heavily funded competition to paypal.

There already is!!!

Google Checkout.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6091240-7.html

:lol:

Someone needs to make a heavily funded competition to eBay…like Google.

Well I guess thats the other option, if you already have the worlds greatest word of mouth!

No need to sell on ebay, craigslist FTW.

lol craigslist sucks balls
at least ebay has some serious buyers

Ebay owns Paypal = monopoly and has the balls of the sellers

Craigslist =ftmfw. I have made thousands of free dollars on there, no seller fees at all.