I bid in the US only. Ebay is what it is, untamed. I just bid on an item and found out my counter bid was rated at:
Total bids: 897
Items bid on: 162
Bid activity (%) with this seller: 99% (100% when I first looked at the info)
Wow! I emailed ebay and I emailed ebay. No response. I called and the ebay teller and he hung up on me? Now I have an unpaid item violation. Will I pay for this? You tell me the anwser to this question?
The seller sent unkindly emails (powerlineman104) Perhaps 104 times in the rounds.
This is ebay problem. The system allows seller with resulting statistics. It is in their database and they could control it, but it looks like it does not happen. Wow! Perhaps they can not tend with all of the data?, Cases?, Sellers? They sure know how to collect however.

I am fed up with Ebay and PayPal not supporting their sellers, and where would they be without us??? In the last few years Ebay has changed their rules and now takes money from all angles...even a tax from the shipping that the seller charges the buyers to recieve their items!!! What business do they have to take part of the shipping...this is none of their business and should keep their greedy fingers out!! The reason, they say, they do this is because sellers would charge a ridiculous amount of shipping to a buyer, but if the buyer is willing to pay it, it is none of ebay's business...surely the buyers are smart enough to make their own decisions on weather to buy the item or not! Ebay instructed me to charge more for the item to cover the shipping charge that they take...WHAT? So now everyone looses except Ebay.
Ebay also has a judging form that buyers fill out about sellers, and if they are not 100% happy about everything or are just having a bad day, the seller gets a bad rap. Ebay gives advice on how to get your grade up...Sell the item cheaper(how can we, when we have to cover the postage taxes they take), charge less for shipping, ( how can we...we have to charge more now, because ebay charges shipping taxes), offer paypal for payment, ( how can we, when paypal charges the buyer a certain % of the cost of the item so that they get their cut for the convenience of the buyer, because the buyer is not stupid enouth to pay it), and ship within a certain amount of days. If you do all of this, Ebay, Paypal and the buyer will be happy and you might get a good grade...If the buyer even bothers to give you feedback! (I only get feedback from about 50% of my buyers). By this time, you have lost your butt in the item, and you would be better off giving it to a good cause in your area. I have sold over 1022 items and have 100% feedback, but ebay gives me a below normal grade. and if I would continue to selll thru them, as of June, they will hold my payments from the buyers for 21 days until the buyer is totally satisfied!!! Buyers work so hard, taking pictures of the item, describing them accuratlely, packaging them well, and then going to the post office 4 times a week, so the buyer will recieve them in a timely manner. It use to be fun, but ebay has made it a full time job! I have even sold items that has come up in a negative monetary value for me, because of all of the charges...the buyer is getting a great deal, but the seller is being robbed! Before I knew that ebay was taking a tax off of the postage that I charge the buyer, I was even sending some of the postage back to the buyer, because I accidently charged them too much...Ha, What a joke. I am honest and the Ebay and Paypal is a scam. Oh Paypal...let's talk about that...I went thru hoops for a buyer in France to repackage his item, to cut down on his postage three times, I repackaged and ended up making a box small enough to make his postage where he thought it was cheap enough...He ended up saying he did not get it, and filed a greivance against me...even tho I had the reciept of mailing the item, and told my story, PayPal took his side, and actually went into my Paypal account and took out the amount of the item that was paid to me!!! I am not usually an angry person, and try to look to the good of everything, but there is no more good about ebay or paypal...I QUIT...I hope this note helps you also make a decision. I will sell on other sites. Thanks for reading and Good Luck!!

I have sold on ebay for many years. Never again. It was always a rip off the fees they charged. But now they are charging Final Value Fee on Shipping. Shipping???? They already get a final value fee on the sale price. Now they are charing on shipping fees. The money it takes you to ship an item. So many times, it has cost me money in the long run to sell an item.

Ebay is a scam. They rip you off. Use Etsy, the fees are very low and you get more time to sell your item. Forget ebay, hopefully they will go out of business. They certainly lost my business.

This is a total rip off and I need any assistance that can be provided.

I purchased a 150 alarm from a seller in hong kong. The item was defective. I contacted the seller and after much delay i escalated a claim. ebay decided in my favor. ebay said ship the item back for a refund. Well low and behold it cost at least 150 or more through every shipping service to send it back with a tracking number. I contacted ebay and they said too bad, its my responsibility to ship it back at my own expense. Because it was a bank draft my bank can not do any thing about it. So to clarify the only way I can get my original 150 back is to pay 150+ to ship it back and not be reimburse for my shipping cost. As a so called courtesy ebay offered me a 10 dollar coupon to help offset the shipping cost. And after spending two hours on the phone with their customer support they took even that away. So how is this buyer protection?

I listed an Apple iPhone 4 on ebay, item sold as a typical auction style sale. After the winning bidder won, payment was made. Buyer then was very aggressive about shipping and handling procedure. Buyer insisted that I use USPS with delivery confirmation. So I followed all the steps given from ebay and then after I was rerouted to USPS for postage and payment. After approximately 10 days I was contacted by the buyer and he insisted that I didn’t send the item and then opened an ebay buyer protection case against me. I gave all the information that was provided to me by ebay and USPS. After much frustration and long hours of research, I found several others that this buyer has done the exact same SCAM to. We all have contacted ebay in hope to stop this unethical SCAMMING practices but ebay sides with this buyer every time because he found a loophole in eBay’s system. Ebay refuses to take responsibility for their mistake and allows foreign individuals in other countries to abuse the ebay buyer protection program. So, they receive the item, claim they didn’t get it and then get issued a refund. Ebay then takes the funds back from seller and if they cant recover, collections, harassing phone calls and of course, account suspension. To add insult to injury, this SCAMMER only had his account open for less than 3 months and had already SCAMMED 4 honest sellers. Ebay allows it to happen and returns the funds to them every time. Even after ALL the complaints!