I have just joined ebid after thinking about it for some time. Nothing listed yet, but I will soon. Have been on the 'bay for many years and their fees and percecution of good, UK based sellers is only getting worse. Keep in mind that I am a top rated seller on the 'bay with over 2600 postive feedbacks and 100% score. So you would hope that the 'bay customer service would want to help. Not a bid of it. Some chap purchased a DVD. Then got in touch 5 weeks later to say he wanted a return and refund. Why? Because the original recording wasnt up to his expectations. Nothing wrong with the DVD or my service. He used the 'bays buyer protection scheme and after contacting the 'bay for advice, they simply told me to accept the return and issue a refund. Not even large corporations are obliged to accept refunda and returns after 28 days, but the little guy in the box-room at home has to do so according to the 'bay. I am no business but the 'bay website tricked me some years ago into changing into a business seller (I am definately not) in order to be allowed to list more items which I wanted to do at the time. They will not allow me to revert to private seller status even though I obviously am not a business. Ebid is now much better and it just needs a higher profile to attract buyers. I dont want to list 500 items and sell one or two now and then. I want to know that if I list at the right price, there is a good chance of something selling.
Adding insult in injury the 'bay are based in Dublin for tax purposes and pay next to no tax on profits made in the UK. Plus the amount of overseas sellers or overseas sellers pretending to be based in the UK is insane. The 'bay is basically trying to become another alibaba or something like that would guess. They pounce on UK sellers for minor issues but there are so many overseas sellers with many negative feedbacks that seem to have no sanction. Plus the 'bay is very quick to take its fees but turns a blind eye to all the VAT and Customs Duty avoidance it facilitates. Just another big corporation percecuiting decent hard working people. Its like the EU and Westminster and the globalists in microcosm. Its not a good place to be anymore so I hope ebid pans out because there is nothing UK centric otherwise.
One other thing. The 'bay claim to offer seller protection as well as buyer protection. The 'seller protection' turns out to be the 'buyer protection' weasily worded to claim that buy protecting buyers, the 'bay is protecting sellers. Its Orwellian doublespeak. The highly paid staffers have to justify their existance with penalising tweaks and adding to the already burdonsome Orwellian regime over there.