I have yet to become a seller on eCrater, but I am going to set up a store. I am very new to online sales and have stores on Storenvy, Bonanza and Blujay, all selling different lines of items. I don't have a lot listed on any one store, 50 items or so. While searching for venues outside of eBay, I checked reviews on every selling site and they all say there are scammers and eBay has the worst feedback of any of the venues. Maybe it's because they are the largest, but their star rating is the worst of any venue.
Now as I said, I am not yet a seller on eCrater, but I am on the sites above. I am a retired older person who truly wants to provide a good product for a decent price. I only sell new items, nothing used. I have no stars, because I've never had a single sale in the 3 weeks I have had a site on these other venues.
Just remember, not everyone is a scam artist. And as far as google reviews goes, the biggest seller has the worst rating, so there are scammers on every selling platform, probably more so on the biggest of them all. I don't like eBay because of a buyer experience I had with them. I bought an antique item from a seller with a 97% approval rating. It was an expensive piece of Lladro. I have collected Lladro for years and had the same piece that one of my grandchildren had accidently broken and I had tried to glue back together, but without good results. But I still had it. When I received the item, it wasn't Lladro, nor was it even the same picture of the item I had bought. It was a plastic figurine of a porpoise, and some gravel in the box, not the large, Lladro woman with doves, I thought I was purchasing. I took pictures of the contents of the box and contacted the seller sending the pictures. I launched a complain with eBay. I checked the weight on the box because I figured that shipping plastic would be less weight than shipping a large piece of porcelain. That's why the gravel, to make the package weigh in at about what the Lladro piece would have. I lost $980 on gravel and plastic. EBay sided with the buyer; Paypal, which is owned by eBay, never refunded my money.
So I think the bigger the platform, the more likely you have of running into more scammers. There are honest and dishonest people everywhere and a 97% approval rating means nothing, or it didn't in my case. I think the best way is to buy something less expensive from a seller, and see how they perform before trusting them with that kind of money. It was a lesson to me.
Don't judge every seller by a few.
