Ebay must be the champions, the Number One winners of Corporate Greed. Their latest move is to stop sending payouts for stuff you sell on ebay and depositing the money in their own ebay “bank”. Then they tell you how wonderful this is for you because NOW you can spend what you just made right there in ebay out of your earnings that they have so conveniently held onto for you instead of depositing them in your bank like they used to do.
You can change this back to bank deposit, I did, all I had to do was search for the way to do it on Google and then click on 5 different links to find the opt-out page, opt out, and click on a few more links. That’s all. If you search on your own for the link to change this back to the way it’s supposed to be before they made this grab for your cash, you might find it, who knows? Anything is possible with perseverance. Better use Google AI.
I’d noticed something else, that my ebay sales had died to nothing and I was getting steadily prompted that I needed to “boost” each item. They charge for this, of course, in various ways, an extra charge when someone just looks at the item, an extra “boost” charge if it sells, over the regular charges. So once again I consulted Google AI, which told me what they’re doing is blocking my listings that have aged a few weeks, to force people to pay for “boosting”. So while they can be seen in my ebay store that almost no one ever looks at, they no longer appear in ebay searches. This is a RIPOFF because ebay charges me a monthly fee to have that store. What the Fuck good is it if the listings in it don’t show in people’s searches? Why even have it?
The Fix for this is to Cancel all the listings and then go to the Canceled list and List Similar for each one, you can do this en mass by clicking the Action box first. Then the listings appear as New Listings. Every two weeks, rinse and repeat. I did this night before last and my sales are jumping again. Ebay, you fucking idiots, how do you expect to make a commission off my sales if you block my listings from showing up in searches? You stupid asses.
Ebay, you greedy motherfuckers, I would go to Etsy or one of the others but they’re all just as bad as you. But hear this: You suck.