The death of Ebay. What about foreign sellers?
eBay has been slowly peeling it's skin off for almost two decades now. There was that brief time after they started that it embodied the culture of the web's immense reach, then they started fucking with the system.
I gave up being a seller in 2006.
Yea 98 to about 2002 were good years to be an ebay seller
That's when I made most of my sales. Used to sell surplus electronic components, but things started to get weird about the time you say.
I bailed in 2006 also
I bought a lot on ebay, but after selling a used guitar one time I gave up.
eBay still is decent enough for buyers. For me, at least, it's the easiest way to get allotments of odd electronics components that wouldn't otherwise be on the market, or would be there at high prices. It's also a great place to get things like OEM branded laptop chargers and other parts that would cost a lot through a retail distributor.
Unless you're a high volume seller these days, eBay doesn't need you.
Every thing for sale! Only 5 easy payments of $599.00
No trusted sellers or buyers as everyone will use burner accounts.
I recently bought things on eBay. Whether I trust someone or not is based on where they live. So far, so good.
This would be a good time for a third party website to allow reviews of buyers and sellers. You could also integrate product reviews with it. Amazon reviews have gone to shit since everyone knows how to game the system. You could then differentiate between the ebay seller and the product ebay was selling. Make it work with amazon, ebay, newegg, sears, walmart, and other large third party seller websites. Could eventually add in functionality like camelcamelcamel for price history. Then burner accounts across multiple sites could all be associated to one master account.
The IRS likes to call that structuring, and they require businesses to report that sort of thing.
"Uh oh, the deposits I'm doing might look like structuring. I had better structure them to not look like structuring. Oh shit, now this is real structuring."
They get you either way.
You would have to spread those payments out over years to never go above $600 / yr.
No it’s selling over $600 of product in total.
$2 for this $10 for that $3 for those
If the total is more than $600 they freeze your account.
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