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I am increasingly switching from eBay to Amazon
I use eBay to dispose of my old electronics and photo gear, typically when I upgrade, and have sold thousands of dollars of gear there. eBay's strategy of turning into a marketplace rather than an auction site is turning off people like me, while failing to attract normal merchants because, well, the eBay shopping experience just plain sucks.

I find myself increasingly using Amazon to sell off my stuff (e.g. a $200 pair of binoculars). You can list your inventory indefinitely, unlike eBay where auctions, even fixed-price ones, expire after a maximum of 10 days. An added bonus is sticking it to eBay and its gouging of sellers with constant price increases.

The only situations when I will sell on eBay is for relatively exotic stuff that isn't in Amazon's catalog.
Posted by: fazalmajid   Posted on: 08/20/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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I'll stick with Amazon...  BitTwiddler | 08/20/08
RE: eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricing  aeiownu | 08/20/08
Ebay is already one big store with pricing right along with retail.  Been_Done_Before | 08/20/08
Shipping is the KILLER  Enorton42@... | 08/21/08
I am increasingly switching from eBay to Amazon  fazalmajid | 08/20/08
RE: eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricing  Glenn Mandelkern | 08/20/08
eBay is what it is because there are no fixed prices  CyberMe | 08/21/08
RE: eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricing  JamesCho | 08/21/08
RE: eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricing  JamesCho | 08/21/08
RE: eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricing  The Rog | 08/21/08
eBay needs to be exposed  LegendsOfBatman | 08/21/08
I & thousands of others agree - ebay needs to be exposed!  formercanadianpowerseller | 08/22/08
We can't  LegendsOfBatman | 08/22/08
No one should trust ebay/Paypal anymore  formercanadianpowerseller | 08/22/08
RE: eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricing. Yeah, right!  LegendsOfBatman | 08/21/08
RE: eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricing  formercanadianpowerseller | 08/21/08
Amazon aids 3rd-party rip-off's  nfordzdn | 08/21/08
sellerz on both sites .....  cammobus@... | 08/22/08
If you want cheap cables...  hermes_vb | 08/23/08
RE: eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricing  jobert48@... | 08/24/08
RE: eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricing  atari8bit@... | 08/24/08
Ebay sucks because of lack of consumer protection  turbohawk | 10/06/08
RE: eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricing  letu27 | 10/06/08
eBay has blown it  Keeping Current | 10/06/08
God Bye and Good Riddence!  celestialbodi6 | 10/06/08
RE: eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricing  hqconverter | 04/14/09

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