Quote Originally Posted by Zthun View Post
Why is it that the seller has to pay the fees, yet they get NO protection against chargebacks and false claims? They buyer pays nothing to paypal and they get all the protection. Now unless I've misread something, can somebody please EXPLAIN that to me.
The buyer is the customer; the customer gets the "deal." I know that's overly simplistic, but that's the reasoning. If I as a buyer had a pay a $2.50 fee to send a $50 payment every time, I would make sure I used Paypal as little as possible. The reason Paypal got huge many years ago is its simplicity and low/no cost to the buyer. If the buyer had to pay the fee, Paypal would be no larger than Western Union money transfers today.

Quote Originally Posted by brykasch View Post
But you have to understand Ebay now is ONLY about the buyers, the sellers have become an afterthought.
This is definitely true, but unfortunately for sellers, this is the way to go. Sellers like myself have proven over the years to put up with anything to gain access to the MASSIVE user base of potential buyers. I wonder what the point is where sellers seriously start saying "Fuck it, I'm out." I'm certain it's already happening.

I have gone to Amazon to sell books, music, and dvd's. The profit there and ease is much better than on Ebay, I can list it and forget it, when it sells it sells.
Amazon is generally great, but the profit is all over the place I've noticed. Some items sell for far higher, some sell for far less. I love the fact you can post something, put it back in storage, forget about it, and it sells months later. I don't like how you can't use your own photos, you can't always list something as New-Factory Sealed (your account has to be at a certain "level"), you can't create your own listings unless you pay $40/m for Amazon Prime or whatever it's called, and that buyers can't formally make offers to sellers.