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typingdead · 2025-06-02T10:18:50.525000Z

Like so many others, 3 years ago I was drawn in by the well-known app that starts with the letter V, where private sellers have no selling fees and the buying and selling process is really simple and intuitive, paying just a few coffee's worth in commission and at most a brioche. Last month I went back to Ebay, where I had never stopped buying, but the few things I was selling I put on that same platform from before. Aside from the miserable views and the general interest in items I sold in a few days elsewhere while here half the views were mine, they closed an auction of a modified console from 30 years ago almost immediately. I file a complaint, I write, I attach photos of other people's auctions, but nothing, they decided that despite there being 200 listings of Gameboy with the screen mod, mine wasn't okay (probably reported by some asshole on duty who maybe knows me). But aside from that I asked myself, does it even make sense to keep at it, if on top of that I have to take off the 5% for the fees, so if something on V costs 10, here it has to cost 11/12 if I want to pocket those 10 in full? Is it possible that from America it still takes 30 DAYS to ship, in 2025, when on V I receive packages from France and Spain 2 days later? Of course the distance is VERY different, I know that, but.. 30 DAYS?? With all the contracts shippers can have, are they still using that crappy international program that is slow and often the package gets lost? I’m really disappointed by how things are going, as a registered user since 2003 it breaks my heart to see one of the best buying and selling platforms that existed fall apart, and it will force me to pull down the shutter on my side too.

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