any ebay sellers out there?

I use inkfrog for some of my ebay listing. I would never use a ebay listing service again. They were totally a pain to work with. You can work on inkfrog and set the time and days that you want to list and they host photos for the auctions or buy it now listing. Price in marginal and very easy to use.. I agree with Jason, look into a faster internet connection as well.. Mike

Thanks Scott. yeah, I can do that. And I do. But you still have to fill in those ebay specific fields like type, when, how, etc. Description is the easy part. It's after I get all that done that ebay has a problem. And I have found out what the hang up is... Doesn't matter if you have plenty of money in their paypal account to cover costs and fees, unless you allow them open and full access to your bank account or credit/debit card, you're evidently out. So... I guess I need to get one of those throw away debit cards to link them to, they sure aren't getting free access to my regular bank account or card!
Thanks!
Phil

Not sure how a debit gift card will work for you, I think you need a card number and a bank acct. number for a seller account on ebay. Opening an account specifically for ebay is how we did it, since we are registered in our state as a business we got a free biz acct. at a credit union. We don't sell on ebay anymore, fees are too high, but we still do paypal so the acct is still open.

good or bad Phil..ebay gets the most traffic and sales..none of the others are even close at this time (I wish there was one). If you want to judge how some of the other sites do, look at the sellers feedback-a nice way to see if they are selling..I not sure what your selling. I sell one of a kind collectables and also have a web store hosted by Highwire (no advertisement intended). I hope to migrate all from ebay some day soon but that appears to be in the future. Ebays fees are high but I still make money selling there..but then sell something in an live auction and compare the fees. The internet is a neat and exciting menu to sell on. In 1998 I sold an item from the middle of our almond farm in California to a buyer in Asia. It was a McDonalls Happy meal tooth bush. I was hooked..My opinion and my opinion only..to date, for all the hoops one has to jump through-ebay is the best online auction site for sales--and I look forward to weaning myself some day from ebay. just ain't going to happen soon if I want to continue selling items on the net.. just my humble feelings and I look so forward to the day that someone comes up with the next ebay.. Mike

With ebay and paypal conflict resolution it's innocent even when proven guilty for buyers and
Guilty as sin even when proven innocent for sellers.

I first started selling on eBay in 1997. The first few years were great! I had very good sales numbers back then, and got some good deals too. All at reasonable fees and with courteous U.S. and Canadian eBayers. But after eBay went public and sold stock they became a different creature that in my opinion has evolved into a monster. It was bad enough when eBay changed focus from being an auction site for antiques and collectibles to promoting themselves as an "Online Flea Market" which drew in the junk dealer's and riff raft importers. But then they went International and allowed Chinese Crooks to soil the nest of the very sellers who helped eBay to become successful in the first place. (I've got a shoe box of fake Chinese turquoise bought from Chinese eBayers to prove it).
Also I'm astonished at some of the things the Feds have let eBay get away with. Especially as it pertains to Pay Pal. I don't think any Bank or Credit Card Company could have gotten away with the unjustness and bullying that eBay/Pay Pal seems to. For several years after going public, eBay treated their seller's with absolute disrespect and contempt. Not until their profit numbers have started taking a hit more recently have they again started pretending to give a crap about the sellers. But yet that still didn't stop eBay from starting to charge 10% final value fees on shipping costs too. So when a seller sells and item and only charges the actual shipping costs, then that seller automatically loses 14% (including the 4% Pay Pal fees) of shipping costs out-of-pocket. If the seller ads the 14% onto the shipping costs then the customer feels like they are getting gouged and the seller risks taking a hit on their customer satisfaction rating for S&H on eBay's Dash Board star rating system. Which can then cause the seller to lose his/her seller rating which results in the seller having to pay eBay even higher fees.
Ebay has gotten so huge that it would take someone with endless resources to ever start-up an online auction site to compete. Not counting advertising costs, imagine the legal costs to avoid getting crushed in the barrage of legal infringement claims eBay's legal team would stack on them. But if a company like Microsoft, Amazon or Yahoo were to open an internet auction site tomorrow. I believe seller's would leave eBay in droves. I'd also bet eBay's stock would drop 25% the first week.
I despise what eBay as a company has become. But unfortunately for now, they are the only real game in town.

I didn't remember Amazon having an auction site, but I do remember Yahoo trying one. But that was all before eBay went rogue. Most of the older eBay sellers feel very differently about eBay today than they did in 1999.

yeah, I used to have a separate bank account that I kept a low balance in so if ebay decided to screw around, it wouldn't hurt too bad... Maybe I'll do that again.
If I knew how to write the code that would compare with ebay's when it first started, I'd probably take a shot at it. Ebay started small, there's no reason someone else couldn't. I think if ebay's sellers knew/saw a site that works the way ebay used to before it became too big for it's britches, they'd swarm there in droves. And if they moved over, so would the buyers.
But, that's not gonna happen. I have no idea how to write the code required, so we'll just have to wait till the next college student or group of students decide to take ebay down.

Thanks! Still think I'll try Amazon....

By Amazon, I mean selling on www.amazon.com

yeah, but as you say, there are other auction sites out there, so ebay doesn't own a total patent. just the specifics for their site. Could be done.... just won't be me, dangit.