04-30-2013 09:58 AM
Am I the only one that is concerned with ebay's recent increase in final value fees? Ebay is making it hard to make even a small profit off items sold!
02-16-2014 10:50 AM
02-20-2014 10:30 PM
03-09-2014 06:26 PM
ebay is a goliath. eventually a competitor will kill it. it won't happen this year but it WILL happen. no one stays # 1 forever.
if not one of the lesser competitiors than a new start up will take them down.
the good x's will last for a while until they like ebay before them begin increasing fees & the cycle will continue.
ebay relys on stupidty. there are 100's of 1000s of sellers who don't have a clue how badly they get burned.
03-09-2014 06:50 PM
I haven't sold for many years. Sold a video card for $299. I was excited till I saw the fee of $30. Plus $10 Paypal Fee. Plus $15 to ship. My happy face turned to frowny face. $55 total. So about 17% off whatever you sell. How do sellers make money on here? I bet most people who sell don't realize that it's that high. Well my selling career is over as fast as it started.
03-10-2014 01:41 AM
Not even gonna try to explain how the above post is an epic mathematics fail.
To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes, "This topic is lowering the IQ of the entire board."
03-10-2014 03:36 AM
@sirwindmill wrote:I haven't sold for many years. Sold a video card for $299. I was excited till I saw the fee of $30. Plus $10 Paypal Fee. Plus $15 to ship. My happy face turned to frowny face. $55 total. So about 17% off whatever you sell. How do sellers make money on here? I bet most people who sell don't realize that it's that high. Well my selling career is over as fast as it started.
Who twisted your arm to offer free shipping?
03-12-2014 05:35 PM
03-12-2014 05:35 PM
03-16-2014 01:27 AM
03-19-2014 10:16 AM
Soon Alibaba will be starting up, and I heard their fees will be much lower.
03-20-2014 04:05 PM
That is how the world operates. How to get the max amount of $ from your pocket to theirs. First Timothy 6:10.
03-20-2014 04:28 PM
I'm limiting my selling on ebay now to just items requiring such wide exposure. With commissions (ebay+PayPal) on price & shipping for what I sell running typically 15% to 26% of price, ebay is no longer competitive with special interest classifieds & consignment with dealers. For an automated system with no useful human involvement, it must cost them a tiny fraction of what they charge. Clearly, they need some healthy competition. It's outrageous to charge a commission on shipping cost!
03-30-2014 11:28 PM
I cant believe that Ebay are now going to charge 9.9% on the item and the postage !
There reasoning is that sellers are lowering price of goods and charging higher postage. And from my return correspondence these sellers are all bad sellers.
What a load of rubbish ! I can see postage cost and make my own mind up whether I want to bid
I, as a seller show postage and half the time the seller picks the item up. But that means that I am gonna be paying 9.9% of postage cost that never happened to Ebay.
This is only an advantage to Ebay and none at all for buyers or sellers
But I must be wrong as they tell me have done research on this
YEAR RIGHT
03-31-2014 07:40 AM
I have sold a fair amount of things on ebay through the years and just used the fee calculator on a few random items out of a pile of things I have to sell. I will not be selling a single item on ebay. The final value fee ends up being about 10% of the sale.
when CL's is zero, its a pretty easy choice. Done selling on ebay.
03-31-2014 07:54 AM - edited 03-31-2014 07:56 AM
@iam-speed wrote:I have sold a fair amount of things on ebay through the years and just used the fee calculator on a few random items out of a pile of things I have to sell. I will not be selling a single item on ebay. The final value fee ends up being about 10% of the sale.
when CL's is zero, its a pretty easy choice. Done selling on ebay.
The FVF is exactly 10% of the sale. And you pay PayPal too.
If you can get the same prices for your items on CL, or close to it, you'd be crazy not to sell them there. I probably wouldn't get more than 20% of my eBay prices on CL, so I sell here. It's just business.