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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : Confusing Ebay Times

 

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04 May 2014
12:51:27pm
Need help on the following. Auction item states: ends in 4 hrs, 16 min left. ( Ends 2:00 pm today). I live in Central time zone. Item is located in England. What is ending time for me? I now have 11:54 am. on my mickey mouse. Item #141274053701

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04 May 2014
01:14:08pm
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4pm Central time. Your Mickey clock is off so make it appox 4.03 on him

Mike in NC

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04 May 2014
01:25:20pm
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Mike,
Thanks for the information. I was a little confused about the ends at 2:00 today. I assume (hate that word) the 2:00 pm is Pacific time. I have never bid on anything from outside the US and was worried that different times were used.

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Mel

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04 May 2014
05:18:53pm
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For those that might be curious, I did not bid on the item. It was more than I wanted to spend.

Mel

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TribalErnie

15 Oct 2015
07:29:28pm
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What happened to ebay???? Took a 4 or 5 year hiatus and I don't recognize it anymore. Did a fair amount of buying and selling some years back. And I've recently looked to bid on some things. EVERYTHING now seems to be "buy it now". I sold quite a few nice things on ebay in the past and I always set it at .01 starting bid with no reserve; highest bidder takes it. Only a couple of times was i (slightly) dissapointed. Too bad. Not only that, the "my ebay" dashboard stinks! Hard to manuever Boo HISS
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15 Oct 2015
08:14:01pm
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I've bought and sold on ebay for years... there is A LOT to boo and hiss about. one thing that really makes me mad is sellers can no longer leave a negative feedback under any circumstance. It's no longer a feed back system... only a buyer rating system.

I had an individual get into a bid war over one of my items and when they won they told me flat out they were not paying that much for it. I filed a non-paying bidder against them but could not leave a anything but a positive. I ended up canceling the transaction and leaving no feedback. Before the transaction was canceled they left me a negative... Ebay removed it... weeks later.

I still sell on ebay... the majority of buyers are awesome. But ebay REALLY favors the buyers now which makes it hard when you run into those few dishonest buyers and they make it impossible for you to leave honest feedback to warn the next seller who may be targeted by that buyer.

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15 Oct 2015
09:32:00pm
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" ... which makes it hard when you run into those few dishonest buyers and they make it impossible for you to leave honest feedback to warn the next seller who may be targeted by that buyer. ..."

I stopped using eBay for anything more than someplace to fairly easily find a scan of some stamp I want to see or save for reference. At that time I had a 100% positive buyers feedback rating but I had discovered that sellers were refusing to add to the buyers positive, choosing to wait and use the feedback as a revenge rating long after the buyers prompt payment had occurred.
There was also their attempt to force people to use PayPal and the one thing I do not easily respond to is force, even force to do what I had originally intended to do.
So after about ten years using eBay I just sought other sources to fill my album pages.

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michael78651

15 Oct 2015
11:43:47pm
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Ernie, eBay is moving into a store/fixed price environment. Competition from Amazon is driving the changes.

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22 Oct 2015
09:44:29am
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I've been on eBay since the beginning and it was exciting back then to "buy something from my computer". A lot of people bought things just for that novelty. Back around 1998, there were few sellers and items. You could browse entire categories. In fact at first a lot of items didn't have photos because few people had digital cameras. Coming from buying things from classified ads, that wasn't a problem back then!

In those early times you could sell things for a fair amount of money. There were spirited bidding wars on nearly every collectible. I started out by selling old car dealer brochures. There was no bulk lister then, so I'd spend a Saturday putting up listings one at a time. Every so often I'd hit "refresh" and see that the stuff I had listed in the last hour already had bids! Most everything sold, and at sometimes amazing prices! The good ole days.

Eventually the market got crowded and there were too many sellers peddling the same things. Then the sell through rate fell greatly, and things started to sell for the opening bid. That killed selling for me.

eBay reached the end of it's growth with collectibles and went after the mass market and the peddling of consumer junk. As mentioned above they've been chasing Amazon, but I don't think the'll ever catch it. With this growth and to persuade the buyers of such things, they became that same "the consumer is always right" place that Amazon is, fashioned after brick and mortar stores that would cheerfully take things back with no question. That whole Walmart experience.

I read a blog on the online sales sites, and recently there was an Amazon seller complaining about how those liberal return policies are killing small sellers. That seller was ordered to replace a valuable poster for a buyer who wrote Amazon explaining that their dog ripped the poster and they wanted it replaced for free. Amazon ordered the seller to do so! Frickin Amazing!

So I am not about to start selling on either eBay or Amazon. But in fairness, I buy things from eBay every week. The fact that there's so much stuff, has led me to find most of my Ben Franklin collection there. I'd say 70% of what I have came from eBay, and 30% from the previous 25 years of collecting! In those days I went to the big shows, bought through Linn's ads and even had some dealers looking out for items for me. Back then I had never even seen a Scott 300b booklet pane, and through eBay I now own six of them! So I do comb eBay for old covers, unusual usage and such weekly. I even have a bunch of search agents that send me emails daily.

I hate to say I also buy a lot of the consumer junk on eBay. It's just so darn easy to click and order. And the stuff shows up in a day or two. This year I bought new headlights for my Dodge Caravan, a camera, a new soft top for my Jeep and parts for my pool accessories. For instance Leslies Pool Supply wanted $15 for a single plastic screw that holds the wheel on my Polaris pool bottom cleaner robot. On eBay I got a pack of four screws for $6 postpaid. Same exact ones in a Polaris brand bag! Can't beat that.



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04 May 2014
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Need help on the following. Auction item states: ends in 4 hrs, 16 min left. ( Ends 2:00 pm today). I live in Central time zone. Item is located in England. What is ending time for me? I now have 11:54 am. on my mickey mouse. Item #141274053701

Thanks, Mel

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04 May 2014
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4pm Central time. Your Mickey clock is off so make it appox 4.03 on him

Mike in NC

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04 May 2014
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Mike,
Thanks for the information. I was a little confused about the ends at 2:00 today. I assume (hate that word) the 2:00 pm is Pacific time. I have never bid on anything from outside the US and was worried that different times were used.

Again, thanks

Mel

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04 May 2014
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For those that might be curious, I did not bid on the item. It was more than I wanted to spend.

Mel

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TribalErnie

15 Oct 2015
07:29:28pm

re: Confusing Ebay Times

What happened to ebay???? Took a 4 or 5 year hiatus and I don't recognize it anymore. Did a fair amount of buying and selling some years back. And I've recently looked to bid on some things. EVERYTHING now seems to be "buy it now". I sold quite a few nice things on ebay in the past and I always set it at .01 starting bid with no reserve; highest bidder takes it. Only a couple of times was i (slightly) dissapointed. Too bad. Not only that, the "my ebay" dashboard stinks! Hard to manuever Boo HISS
Ernie

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hblairh

15 Oct 2015
08:14:01pm

re: Confusing Ebay Times

I've bought and sold on ebay for years... there is A LOT to boo and hiss about. one thing that really makes me mad is sellers can no longer leave a negative feedback under any circumstance. It's no longer a feed back system... only a buyer rating system.

I had an individual get into a bid war over one of my items and when they won they told me flat out they were not paying that much for it. I filed a non-paying bidder against them but could not leave a anything but a positive. I ended up canceling the transaction and leaving no feedback. Before the transaction was canceled they left me a negative... Ebay removed it... weeks later.

I still sell on ebay... the majority of buyers are awesome. But ebay REALLY favors the buyers now which makes it hard when you run into those few dishonest buyers and they make it impossible for you to leave honest feedback to warn the next seller who may be targeted by that buyer.

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15 Oct 2015
09:32:00pm

re: Confusing Ebay Times

" ... which makes it hard when you run into those few dishonest buyers and they make it impossible for you to leave honest feedback to warn the next seller who may be targeted by that buyer. ..."

I stopped using eBay for anything more than someplace to fairly easily find a scan of some stamp I want to see or save for reference. At that time I had a 100% positive buyers feedback rating but I had discovered that sellers were refusing to add to the buyers positive, choosing to wait and use the feedback as a revenge rating long after the buyers prompt payment had occurred.
There was also their attempt to force people to use PayPal and the one thing I do not easily respond to is force, even force to do what I had originally intended to do.
So after about ten years using eBay I just sought other sources to fill my album pages.

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".... You may think you understood what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you think you heard is not what I thought I meant. .... "
michael78651

15 Oct 2015
11:43:47pm

re: Confusing Ebay Times

Ernie, eBay is moving into a store/fixed price environment. Competition from Amazon is driving the changes.

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Tom in Exton, PA
22 Oct 2015
09:44:29am

re: Confusing Ebay Times

I've been on eBay since the beginning and it was exciting back then to "buy something from my computer". A lot of people bought things just for that novelty. Back around 1998, there were few sellers and items. You could browse entire categories. In fact at first a lot of items didn't have photos because few people had digital cameras. Coming from buying things from classified ads, that wasn't a problem back then!

In those early times you could sell things for a fair amount of money. There were spirited bidding wars on nearly every collectible. I started out by selling old car dealer brochures. There was no bulk lister then, so I'd spend a Saturday putting up listings one at a time. Every so often I'd hit "refresh" and see that the stuff I had listed in the last hour already had bids! Most everything sold, and at sometimes amazing prices! The good ole days.

Eventually the market got crowded and there were too many sellers peddling the same things. Then the sell through rate fell greatly, and things started to sell for the opening bid. That killed selling for me.

eBay reached the end of it's growth with collectibles and went after the mass market and the peddling of consumer junk. As mentioned above they've been chasing Amazon, but I don't think the'll ever catch it. With this growth and to persuade the buyers of such things, they became that same "the consumer is always right" place that Amazon is, fashioned after brick and mortar stores that would cheerfully take things back with no question. That whole Walmart experience.

I read a blog on the online sales sites, and recently there was an Amazon seller complaining about how those liberal return policies are killing small sellers. That seller was ordered to replace a valuable poster for a buyer who wrote Amazon explaining that their dog ripped the poster and they wanted it replaced for free. Amazon ordered the seller to do so! Frickin Amazing!

So I am not about to start selling on either eBay or Amazon. But in fairness, I buy things from eBay every week. The fact that there's so much stuff, has led me to find most of my Ben Franklin collection there. I'd say 70% of what I have came from eBay, and 30% from the previous 25 years of collecting! In those days I went to the big shows, bought through Linn's ads and even had some dealers looking out for items for me. Back then I had never even seen a Scott 300b booklet pane, and through eBay I now own six of them! So I do comb eBay for old covers, unusual usage and such weekly. I even have a bunch of search agents that send me emails daily.

I hate to say I also buy a lot of the consumer junk on eBay. It's just so darn easy to click and order. And the stuff shows up in a day or two. This year I bought new headlights for my Dodge Caravan, a camera, a new soft top for my Jeep and parts for my pool accessories. For instance Leslies Pool Supply wanted $15 for a single plastic screw that holds the wheel on my Polaris pool bottom cleaner robot. On eBay I got a pack of four screws for $6 postpaid. Same exact ones in a Polaris brand bag! Can't beat that.



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