Can you imagine if eBay had some kind of voting/feedback system whereby all sellers and buyers could leave comments and score their feelings and views on how eBay conduct business and communicate with their so called community ! one of our clients today received a listing violation notification that a couple of their items had been pulled due to them having ‘inappropriate links’ !! as far as we can see the links in question were either a ’skype us’ button, which allows buyers to contact us direct and instantly, which eBay recommends (also owning skype you may think would be favourable to eBay!) and possibly the fact that we had ‘cross promotion’ links to our other items on the eBay platform !!
How dare they just cancel our listings without prior notification, warning and without advising us beforehand, which in turn has now decreased our normally impeccable DSR ratings to ‘fair’. All that hard work and determination just to be tilted by eBay’s lack of respect and communication!!
We will continue, for the time being, to list our products on the platform, but can promise that we will from now on look further into up and coming marketplaces that will be, in no time at all, offering our products to the same or if not more buyers than eBay !
And one more thing
if you view chat rooms and discussion boards and listen to what buyers and sellers are saying about ALL selling platforms (Amazon, included) you’ll probably find most of the negatives are targeted at eBay !! I would be really worried !!