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Mercari: Buying & Selling App vs eBay online shopping & selling

An honest comparison based on real user reviews. Both are popular Marketplace apps — but which one do users complain about less?

Mercari: Buying & Selling App

Main Weakness

No protection against inactive sellers and unhelpful support system that takes too long to respond

"they do not filter sellers correctly so you will get inactive sellers and it's up to you to find out if they are active or not. Mercari does very little to protect you from inactive sellers"
"Mercari health center and support system needs a lot of work their employees don't know what they're doing. They take super long to review help request."

eBay online shopping & selling

Main Weakness

Arbitrary permanent bans with no recourse and failure to enforce their own authenticity guarantees

"This afternoon I got an email from eBay stating that my account was permanently suspended, 'because of recent accounts activity that had raised security concerns.' So I contacted an assistant to see why my account was suspended and what I did to get"
"when attempting to have eBay resolve the issue and adhere to THEIR OWN guarantee (Authenticity Guarantee) they're nowhere to be found. I've tried mu"

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