Ebay limits sellers and is kicking sellers off site

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

I wonder why their doing that as they make a percentage of every sale. Kind of like cutting your nose off to spite your face,,,

Or we're making too much money so we'll just get rid of 50,000 or so sellers.

While that would seem to be true, my knee jerk reaction to the message is that they are NOT getting rid of sellers because of they money they are making but because of the money they are LOSING.

In a world full of identity theft, how hard would it be for a criminal to open a bank account, open an ebay account, list 5000 items for 20.00, then just run off with 100,000.00?

Ebay would still be on the hook with the buyers, they would have to refund the money, but would not have any way to get the money back.



Because they only invoice every 30 days, there is more than enough time to sell thousands of dollars of stuff, withdraw the money, then be long gone.

It would seem to me, Ebay would NOT want to publicly say this was a growing problem, they would rather internally find a way to curb the problem by putting more scrutiny on sellers.

Just an idea.