Clamshell's weekly journal

[Shannon]

I used to sell on eBay. That's where this company got started actually. I worked hard to make sure my customers were happy and well treated just as I do now. But over time, competition became unreasonable and so did the prices they were charging sellers and the way they were treating sellers. I shut down my store there because I painted myself into a corner and because I could not have the business and my relationship be at the top of my list of priorities. I painted myself into a corner because I was doing all the manufacturing, printing, packaging and mailing, and eventually the products became so popular that I couldn't keep up. As for the relationship... well... I decided to focus on it, and the business died.

But I digress. The point is, as eBay treated sellers with less and less consideration, the better ones left eBay - including me. That's why we have this store and forum. Since then, what I have purchased on eBay has left me by and large disappointed. It seems to have become a haven for Chinese sellers, many of whom are seemingly not terribly worried about keeping or satisfying their customers. That's not true for all of them, of course - but I have been made to feel "taken" more than once dealing with them. I used to be happy and proud to sell on eBay; now, I don't even shop there anymore. So I prefer not to have them getting more traffic because of a link from us. Otherwise I wouldn't mind.