eBay criticism, or From where did I get my dolls?
Where did I get my dolls from? eBay, of course. It's quite the marketplace for My Twinn dolls. For many years, I did not think much about it. I was happy to look through the unique inventory, pay for my items and the shipping, and gladly open the packages once they arrived. Eventually though, I grew out of it. It started with my growing sympathy for post office workers. Another doll in my collection became just another doll, and I could no longer justify what I perceived as the large effort to coordinate the shipping of a doll from the seller doorstep to my own. For a while I considered selling things on eBay, but when I learned of the selling fees, which are 10% of the total sale, I was shocked. Exactly how does the company get away with taking 10% of the total sale price? They must think highly of their platform, but yeah? Then I did some digging and learned that eBay makes about $10 billion dollars per year, and that the cost to run their web...