eBid UK - www.ebid.net

This company is the very reason you should never take out a lifetime subscription.

They emailed me saying i answered a Q/A wrongly, they continued to email me 6 more times for the same issue that i could not even understand. Then i get an email the 7th saying they are doing random security checks and that i need to upload my sensitive documents to them and my ebid is suspended for now. Never will i Buy or Sell in a corrupted system like ebid.

After Paid for Seller lifetime membership - them suspended my account 3 days ago without any explanation and refund - only received a vague e-mail say: "you account dont accepted" ?

Until today no any refund or compensation - we open a legal claim in the Court about this discrimination, criminal company! Save you time and money and avoid the Ebid.net at all cost!

So, you have seen the offer of free listing - no fees? The 'No Fees' hooks many people in only to leave them disillusioned when they are charged for including a thumbnail picture on their listings. Well, if you want to sell, you do, don't you?

Where is the 'sold' column? There isn't one. This has been requested time and time again over the years - yes YEARS, this isn't a site in its infancy - but one has to wonder why this has not been forthcoming. Not rocket science.

Yes, there are sales, but take a look at those with high feedback numbers and they will most likely have transported them from eBay - which you are allowed to do. Another ploy to make it look as though the sales are good. Stamp sellers will also do well with items costing very little. But the biggest feedback tallies are from the 'worthies' of the forums. This is a clique who buy from one another each month in a charity listing. Not knocking that - they raise money for good causes. But I do feel that this feedback should be kept separate from that accumulated from sales.

Would I recommend eBid? NO! Until the owners of the site put some money into advertising, it will never be an alternative site to eBay.

DO NOT PART WITH YOUR CASH.

The Newsletter,Introductory E-Mail I received from E-Bid sounded promising,Lower Fees than E-Bay,Hundreds of Happy customers and Sellers.I was getting fed up with E-Bay since they Introduced Higher Fees for Private Sellers.I was duped by E-Bid and feel I have been Misled by their False Advertising. I blame Myself,I should Have been more vigilant and my common sense should have kicked in.we all learn from our Mistakes,I certainly Have.

I paid the £49.99 Fee for Life time Membership around 5 Months ago and have not sold one single Item.All of my Items are New,Low cost,I had a lot of Craft Items on the Site.Reasonably Priced.I have had no Messages,No Interest from anyone.I actually sold more Items on E-Bay UK.Looks like I will Have to go back to E-Bay £49.99 Poorer.

E-Bid should be Investigated and Shut down.I have spoken to Many sellers on the Site and they all report the same Problems,we cant all be wrong.

Customer Service on E-Bid is non existent and if you are one of the Lucky ones that do get a reply back,it is an E-Mail offering their Membership Terms even though you are already a full Member.They do not respond to any complaints,Concerns,Enquiries.It is a disgrace.

On my first (and only) purchase at eBid, the seller sends the wrong item.

If this were eBay or Amazon, returns would be very easy to sort out. Not at eBid - there is no return option anywhere! Apparently I have to contact the seller and sort it out with him/her.

Once I have sorted this mess out, I will be deleting my eBid account.

I used to sell used books for a low margin on eBay until last year when they reduced the number of free listings and at the same time increased their fees, so it was no longer viable for me. I want to continue selling and I was seriously considering using eBid, but I really have my doubts about them.

Firstly, as others have pointed out before me, there are no listing fees, so once sellers have paid their £49.99 where is eBid's further income coming from? I'm no economist, but there must come a point when most of the sellers who want to try eBid have paid up, and the number of new applicants diminishes to little more than a trickle. So I ask again, where does eBid get any more money from? It gives me the impression that once they have your money they just sit back and put their feet up.

Secondly, no eBid items come up in online searches. If you want to buy something, what's the next thing you do after looking on Amazon and Ebay? Some people have not even heard of eBid, while if you did know of it, it might not be the first thing you would think of. It's much easier to simply google what you are looking for, isn't it? Fine, but you won't see anything from eBid. Try it for yourself. As an example, if I do a search for the title of an out of print book, I'll get results for Amazon, Abebooks, eBay and others, but not eBid. So what use is a site where potential buyers don't know the items are there?

Taking used books as an example again, another worry is the lack of items for sale. There is a long-running series of titles called New Naturalists, these are highly collectable and prices run from quite low up to hundreds of pounds per book. I've just looked on eBay, where there are uncountable numbers of them, possibly running into four figures. How many are there on eBid? Just five titles, and I'm pretty sure they're the same ones I saw there last year. From a seller's point of view, people aren't going to bother to look where there is less chance of them finding what they want.

I suspect it means that sellers are simply not willing to pay £49.99 to eBid when there is little chance of recouping it. To me there is little doubt that I would simply be chucking my money away.

I started selling on US eBid a couple year ago and today I decided to shut my store down and move my products to a few other productive sites. eBid has several steps to make before I consider it worth the time to list on there. I paid for a lifetime membership and fortunately I made that fee back. For sellers, price comparison for sold items is joke and the ratio of sales to non sales is down right sad. The business expects the customers and sellers to do their leg work for getting the word out which is ludicrous. If they can't push their site into the real world on their own and are willing to still charge sellers to pay for the service, (which the seller would make eBid money on the sales final value fee), then this site is no more than a cash hog and will slowly go the way of the Dodo bird. I hope they make the need improvements

I used to sell on Ebid Whilst it's cheap you get what you pay for because they refuse to market themselves to increase the traffic, so in the main sales are sluggish. If only they would do that it would be a more viable alternative to Ebay. Ebid seem to care more about the number of listings on the site than anything else.

The run to sold option is not as good as it appears. Many sellers have their items on this option but because of sluggish sales they easily forget their listings and they stay up there for months. You have to contact seller before bidding/buying just to ensure that they are still around.

Customer service is appalling. Listings are removed without any reason given. Someone only has to report(Usually malicious reporting related to competition) & your listings vanish.

I would not recommend this site.

eBid does not vet sellers or offer any assistance if you have a problem.

In the event you have a dispute they suggest you contact the payment provider or report the seller to the authorities !!

As normal you register then it makes a life time offer of selling for £49.

A few hours later it blocks me and asks for ID and address and this is after I paid using paypal !!!

BEWARE THAT SOME OF THE REVIEWS WHICH ARE POSITIVE REGARDING EBID ARE FAKE.

STAY AWAY FROM THESE GUYS.