According to a little banner I saw on eBay:

Earn DOUBLE eBay Bucks! 10 days only: June 20th - 29th. Boost your balance!

I posted this in the 35% off thread as well, but it may get lost. If you're about to make a purchase, you may want to wait a day. Some of us are getting 4 and 5% rewards already, so this becomes 8 and 10%. Factor in another 10% from Microsoft for BIN and this is still fairly hot, assuming you haven't made your 3 purchases yet.

eBay Rewards appears to be by invite only...

What are eBay rewards?

Claymore said:It's gonna take something pretty dramatic to bring buyers and sellers together again after the current feedback debacle somehow is resolved. I'm on the sidelines there until eBay management gets their heads straight. Too much risk being a seller now, and sellers that remain now are falling into a "nothing to lose" mentality. Bad business....

Not to sound like a dumbass but huh?

I know they have the new system where you rate people in different criteria but I had not heard anything real bad about it....

Can someone explain/link this?

thanks

I earn 3% back and now it is triple (that is 9% back).

fatluncher said:Not to sound like a dumbass but huh?

I know they have the new system where you rate people in different criteria but I had not heard anything real bad about it....

Can someone explain/link this?

thanks

The new issue is that only buyers are going ot be able to leave feedback on the transaction, because of the fact that sellers did not give feedback until they received feedback, aka feedback hostage. Buyers were afraid to give sellers negative or neutral because of retaliatory feedbacks, so they're transitioning to the buyers feedback being the only one that matters.

Participation is currently limited to invitation only, but may expand in the future.

LAME!!!!

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Bosom said:
The new issue is that only buyers are going ot be able to leave feedback on the transaction, because of the fact that sellers did not give feedback until they received feedback, aka feedback hostage. Buyers were afraid to give sellers negative or neutral because of retaliatory feedbacks, so they're transitioning to the buyers feedback being the only one that matters.

It's still feedback hostage land. For every transaction, sellers wait until they got positive feedback to consider giving positive feedback to buyer, even if buyer paid promptly and communicated well with seller. Seller is going "I'm not leaving you pos. feedback until I'm sure you're not gonna leave me neg. feedback" but then once seller has gotten pos. feedback, what's their incentive to leave pos. feedback to buyer.

I'm mostly a buyer with about 100 positive feedbacks from 1998 (100% pos.) but it's become near impossible to have seller leave you pos. feedback now. And I honestly don't blame them either, the system is too stacked against the sellers IMO. I've sold about a dozen items over the years but at this point with higher fees, it's extremely unlikely that I'll use eBay for selling stuff. Cheaper and easier to go with Craigslist. No shipping hassle, no fees, you get cash directly from buyer so no hassle with paying or not paying bidders, no worries about feedback, and since it's local the whole transaction usually happens faster.

I used the 35% Live search CashBack promo to get something I had waited for a good price to buy. I'll probably continue to look at buying on eBay if I can't find it on Craigslist cheaper but as far as selling, eBay's no longer an option for me. Partly due to the increased fees but also in large part because of their treatment of sellers. (and that's coming from a 90% buyer)

epdpatrolman said:eBay failed to factor in one KEY factor when starting all of this: the millions of small sellers are also the buyers. Soon, they will have what they wanted...a streamlined number of sellers that list thousands of products each. But when you run off the small time seller, you run off the buyer base at the same time. No product will be moving because the buyers will be gone.
Shandril is right 100% precisely where I am, and epdpatrolman, you clearly have thought it though to the end result. eBay management on the other hand....

wait, people are getting 4-5% for eBay bucks?!? I get 2%, member for over 10 years.

Update: in my account it says "triple eBay bucks" so 6% on those dates