Former Employee - Biz Dev eBay Employee Review

2.0
Oct 11, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers are pleasant enough. Pay satisfactory. Nice campus. Convenient location. Managers tend to be a bit distant from lower-level workers, but not abusive; just aloof. Recent changes have seemed to confuse and dishearten some managers. Offers of better ways to get things done are usually listened to, but seldom acted upon. There are definite cliques of workers who have been employed for longer periods, but the individuals in the cliques are nice when they are operating solo. The pay is ok, and requests for time-off are never refused. All things considered, if I had not been riffed, I would have stayed at least another year.

Cons

EBAY gives no opportunity for customer service workers to actually "help" anybody. Knowing that customers are almost never staisfied with outcomes is demoralizing.

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5.0
Jun 2, 2026
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Pros

It is equivalent to winning the lottery for a dream job.

Cons

Sunday work can be challenging- due to daycare challenges, but ebay supports work/life balance so its not really a con

4.0
May 9, 2026
Recommend
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Business outlook

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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