Regrettably, my days of selling my artwork on eBay are over. It was an absolute blast while it lasted, but eBay's myriad modernizations aren't my cup of tea. I preferred the days when sellers and buyers were allowed to communicate freely, when sellers were allowed to leave honest feedback about buyers, to send personally generated invoices instead of an automated checkout system with communication and payment restrictions, when we weren't forced to only accept PayPal, when umpteen infuriating bells and whistles didn't interfere with our listing and management pages, and, of course, when fees were much lower.
As a buyer, I still find eBay unique, but I shop with more caution than before as I've been stiffed by sellers who never even see the mass produced merchandise that they list, some of which isn't even warehoused in America. This has caused me to pay for items that were never actually available, and for fragile goods that were poorly packaged by a foreign manufacturer and arrived broken.
In short, eBay has expanded beyond belief and remains an amazing marketplace, but it no longer allows the personal touch of the small seller that I used to love about the site. So, with thanks to all of my loyal customers from a kinder, simpler, friendlier eBay age, and to eBay itself for providing me the time of my artistic life, I bid you adieu as a seller.
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