Anybody bought your bike on Ebay?

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I bought my Blue on eBay and have absolutely LOVED it! I have been buying and selling on eBay for over 10 years and am entirely comfortable with it. In fact, I am considering another bike on there.

Please let me know the look & feel of e-bay today in comparison to what it was even 6 month ago. they've been tweaking it a lot during the last 6 month so and it has become terribly unfriendly to small sellers and to buyers too.

1. As a seller, you can no longer leave a negative feedback to the buyer.
2. Paypal will automatically refund the money to the buyer if the buyer claims broken, not delivered etc. In one instance, they accessed a personal bank account and withdrew the money from a bank account to refund a fradulant buyer. Refund not from paypal account but from a personal bank account not directly tied to paypal nor to e-bay. I have been told that there are several well known fradulant buyers who use upwards of dozen aliases. Their MO is to buy, pay, leave a glowing feedback, rack about $2,000 or more then claim three month down the road that they never received an item.
3. buyer are encouraged to leave a negative feedback.
4. if you are not a power seller and do not offer free shipping your item will not come up in a search.
5. They are planning to force everyone to use paypal only. It already has happened in Asutralia (lawsuits filed against e-bay in Austrarlia). Same has happened or will be happening in UK.
6. Paypal now has the descretion to hold your money for 3 weeks before allowing you to access YOUR money.
7. Their revised business plan calls for turning e-bay into wal mart of internet commerce.

Anyway, I just would like to get your experience on e-bay for buying and selling.

thanks
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