I know, in the past three or four years I have looked at some very interesting technologies. Sure, I have opportunities to look at a lot of things, but the reality is I don’t always continue to use many things. Some of the things that appear, slowly move their way to eBay or friends. It is the evolution of the tech I need. For example for a long time, I had a home theater ceiling mounted the projector. I no longer have a ceiling mounted projector. I have one that is on the table in my theater. It is easier to move it around and connect other things to it. I had a bunch of friends over about two months ago to discuss some ideas, and we used the projector. It has built-in Harmon Kardon speakers, so the sound and the image were great!
That said I do have more projectors than I need right now. I have one that is the portable projector that I haven’t used in awhile. But, honestly, the aftermarket for projects is bad. You lose 90% of the value of the projector when you try to sell it after a year. Sad but I refuse to sell something in that mode. I will wait and donate it to a place that needs a projector and take the real value off my taxes. I have slowly over the past two months finally decided on the 360-degree cameras that I am keeping (Bubl and insta360. I suspect I will probably consider some of the other 360 cameras on the market, but for now, those are the two I am going to keep and use. The rest have been appearing on eBay over the past months.
eBay is my primary auction site and has been for a long time. I have a long time relationship that is more bad than good at this point. They, eBay continue to make it harder to harder to continue my relationship with them. Customer service is a two-way street. While there are bad people that sell online, there are also bad people that buy online. I get frustrated with eBay frequently. I vow to stop selling there and explore options, but when you have a great selling reputation, it is really hard to walk away. Customer service is so critical, eBay is a little better than Indiegogo, but since IndieGoGo is so horrific, honestly it really isn’t hard for eBay to be better. The bar is slow…
Again I see that business, in general, is just a way to profit while so many jargons are used to make us believe that they are customer-oriented and always do the best for the customer, even for humans.
I think you’ve reached the truth of business. Business is neither good nor bad. Business is simply the transaction between two entities with the outcome focused on value. If both sides value (win-win) than we are happy. If one side values the transaction less, then they are unhappy.
It is a difficult cycle.
Well, business is an actor or coin in life with those both side of duality.
Yes it is, always fun when chasing a dream!
I am still a loyal eBay customer, just to buy and never sell or auction any. So it’s hard enough for me to judge.
I only sell and the experience is getting worse. If I did have a good seller rating I would move on.
I have heard a lot of people complain about dealing with Ebay.
Yeah, they have gone down hill in terms of customer service. Oh well.