I’ll say. Being forced to offer PayPal is a non-starter. Stripe makes it easy to have multiple accounts at the same e-mail address, which was what I planned to do until I saw Bonanza’s stupidity. Just another bunch of idiotic hipsters that they think know better than everybody else.

“All sellers must offer Paypal in order to offer stripe. The seller must be a Gold member as well. Later this year Stripe will be available but not at this time. However Paypal will still be a required online payment provider too. All sellers are required to offer Paypal as well.

The booth cannot go online without an active valid Paypal account. ”

Definately something wrong with this picture…..

Well, guess I won’t be selling my invention there……

Also, any artisan or maker who is (or considering) selling on multiple channels should look into a Stripe account (a Shopify store should probably also be in your consideration set).

We’ve advocated for independent Bonanza many times over the past few years here on ECB and elsewhere, but Bonanza seems to have chosen as their position a servile alternative/augmentation to eBay sellers (possibly hoping to be picked up as an acquisition?) often stating they’re “politely tolerated” (by eBay and others), when we’d love to see Bonanza taking a stance as a more assertive, scrappy contender, not an obsequious beta to eBay (especially considering Bonanza, in many instances, seems to have better development / engineering capabilities than bloated eBay).

That said, one of Bonanza’s key features for eBay sellers is their import tool, allowing eBay sellers to (relatively) easily replicate their eBay listings on Bonanza.

Unfortunately, Bonanza has had significant problems with syncing eBay store listings, particularly multi-variation listings (and photos). Multi-variation listings have many problems with pictures and listings (and reliably syncing/decrementing eBay item counts after Bonanza sales).

If there were *one* initiative we feel Bonanza would be well-served in pursuing with focus and rigor, it’s ensuring the Bonanza import tool from eBay stores correctly and reliably maintains parity with eBay stores, (and multi-variation listings/photos, in particular). This tool working even 98% is not good enough, it needs to work correctly, every time, maintaining parity with the synced eBay store without requiring time-consuming manual work around defeating the purpose.

On a side note, eBay also this week announced a photo background eraser in the eBay app, a tool Bonanza has long-offered in its “background burner” offering.