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While leaving a feedback on an item I purchased, I noticed a new feedback system in place. Luckily, I took a screenshot image of it, because it seems to be gone now. It only happened for me on 1 item, and the stars weren’t working (I couldn’t fill-in the stars). Here is the image below, I’m not sure when they’ll put it in place permanently. (Click the image for a larger view)

John Donahoe is legitimately an idiot for what he has done to eBay…and I’m talking about as a whole, not just the “My Ebay” pages, which are what annoys me most at this minute. Thanks to the garbage new pages, I just left positive feedback for someone who has yet to pay for an item. I also had their item packaged up and put into another customers shipment, because the “Items I Sold” page is a piece of crap that runs together. Is it my fault for making this mistake? Sure it is, but it wouldn’t have happened if the idiots who are running eBay were more in touch with their customers (buyers AND sellers) and would quit changing what doesn’t need to be changed.

John Donahoe should really know that he is a miserable failure with his current company. Every idea he has implemented, from buyers not allowed to leave NEG feedback, to the new design of the website, have been some of the worst ideas known to the modern world and are all contributors to what will be the demise of his company.

eBay continues to make really ignorant decisions. John Donahoe is an idiot. Yes, I know he went to Dartmouth and Stanford, but he must not have ever learned the saying “don’t fix what isn’t broke.” John Donahoe, you are an idiot. Starting in October, eBay will begin limiting what a seller can charge for Shipping & Handling. They will start in the “media” categories. The most a seller will be able to charge is $4.00 for shipping an item.

I often sell vintage record albums. The albums measure 12″x12″ inches in size. I buy specially cut-out cardboard to use as packaging material. I buy oversized bubble mailers to ship most record albums, or even specially sized cardboard boxes for more expensive record albums. Plus my postage and time, I will lose money by shipping these record albums for $4.00.

The US Postal Service allows for “media mail” to weigh as much as 70lbs! I also often sell large collections of books which weigh nearly 50lbs. These CANNOT be shipped for only $4.00 as eBay insists. So what are we supposed to do? eBay tells us to use the shipping calculator to charge actual shipping costs. Ridiculous. So sellers aren’t supposed to be compensated for their time and packing materials? Only shipping costs?

I know, I know, eBay says to raise my starting price. Are you kidding? I start all my auctions at 99 cents. If I start my auctions higher, eBay charges more. This is all a ploy by eBay to capture more of our money, and they think sellers are too stupid to realize it.

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