There's a reason Amazon is better - Anonymous employee eBay Employee Review

1.0
29 Sept 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Close to home, free food and I have a few friends here

Cons

The upper management is not transparent. They are very cliquish. The same executives have been here a while. They make all the decisions in closed-door meetings with very limited input from employees. Hence why eBay's stock is so low and Amazon's are so high the same people are making the wrong decisions. They have frequent organization changes moving the same people UP or Around. They have ideas and instead of taking accountability blame the employee. Employees can not give their opinion or they will be viewed as not being a team player. There's a reason Amazon is better. eBay is organized chaos. It looks a whole lot better from the outside.

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5.0
17 June 2026
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Pros

Excellent benefits and nice office

Cons

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4.0
9 May 2026
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Pros

-easy to start and list items -cheaper shipping than retail -high demand items sell quick -make extra income

Cons

-customers / buyers that put in Cart but never buy. eBay does not survive on window shoppers and neither do I -low demand items can wait for years -need a ton of inventory, but high demand as possible, otherwise you will probably fail like me -buyer fraud - trying to get your items for free -competition where some sellers have items selling way under what you are selling for and they do not seem to care about profit at all based on how low the price is (ie: books) -buyers don't leave feedback especially if you are new, so it makes it really hard to get going -scammers but not a whole lot, definitely if you're new tho

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