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unknownparticle:
Once any any internet company becomes dominant in their market the greed motive kicks in, because they have no competition.  Paypal is nothing but an online bank, and we all know the track record banks have for exploiting their customers.  Paypal was started by Elon Musk by the way, for those that didn't know, and we all know what a sham artist he is!  Tesla won't last long though, when Chinese EV manufacturers really start producing!!

ECarr1985:
It would be normal to have the "Other" choice where you could describe why your product is not in a specific category. But the customers should always read the description because it's not in vain there. I have never had issues with PayPal though, but I also have a Skrill account from https://baxity.com/skrill-vs-paypal because it's much more convenient for some transactions. This is a weird policy I think, because if a detail or a piece it's missing, it doesn't mean the object is used, and I think many customers are misled by this.

Bassman59:

--- Quote from: unknownparticle on January 07, 2020, 06:22:50 pm --- Paypal was started by Elon Musk by the way, for those that didn't know, and we all know what a sham artist he is!  Tesla won't last long though, when Chinese EV manufacturers really start producing!!

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Actually, Musk was not a PayPal founder. He took the proceeds from the sale of his previous software com-any (Compaq was the buyer) and started an online payments company. That company was bought by PayPal.

tom66:
I really don't like eBay...  not only are they are dickish company and treat their sellers like crap, the whole experience is terrible.

Amazon offers next day or same day delivery.
I can trust the quality of ~most of the items on Amazon.
I can trust the quality of ~most of the reviews on Amazon.

eBay:
Is full of dropshippers who lie about location.
With shipping charges is generally more expensive.
Is rarely next day.
Is full of items that lie about price (99p - £9.99 and the 99p item is completely different to the other items in the list, making sorting impractical.)
Got a problem and it takes a week to resolve whereas Amazon will refund or returns accepted immediately.

I very rarely buy from eBay now.  Only use it for auctions from private sellers or very infrequently when Amazon does not have the item needed.

NorthGuy:

--- Quote from: tom66 on August 02, 2020, 10:46:52 am ---Amazon offers next day or same day delivery.

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I liked Amazon when they were selling books.

I don't like them now. Descriptions are often misleading, if not totally wrong. Reviews are lumped together. Say, you want to buy a 4K monitor, but you get lots of reviews, many of them may be for similar 1080p monitors. For many things, they work just a portal for the seller, and the item gets shipped from China - same drop-shipping as everywhere else. So, you can really buy a small subset of what you see. And even from this subset, something is no longer available, others don't ship to my address etc. Prices constantly change. A while back I wanted to buy a WiFi router, add one for $100 to my shopping cart, then had to go to lunch before checkout. Guess what. I come back and the router is $120 already. Do they really expect me to buy it in such situation?

It is a long way for Amazon to go to match the level of electronic suppliers, such as DigiKey. But guess what, Amazon doesn't get any better, but DigiKey is devolving towards Amozon - they now have products listed which are not shipped by DigiKey ... just as Amazon.

AliExpress is getting better. They descriptions, and feedback/rating systems are much better now than they were 5-10 years ago. Shipping options are much better. The quality of merchants improved. If they add parametric search, they will be very hard to beat. They don't accept PayPal though.

eBay, on the other hand, hasn't improved over last 20 years ago. I rarely use them now, if at all.

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