Ridiculous shipping costs

[oxtail01]

Why does eBay allow sellers to post ridiculous shipping costs such as a $100 computer tablet with a shipping cost of $55? One would think eBay would be more progressive in regulating such abuses as Amazon is. You would think the days of cheap Chinese sellers selling **bleep** for $1 with $10 shipping  and such would be long gone. How hard is it for eBay to cap shipping costs depending on type of item? 

[buyselljack2016]

does not do this.

You as a buyer put a cap on how much you want to pay in total for something.

[zanadoo_56]

eBay loves ridiculous shipping costs.  They take a cut for the shipping as well as the item selling price.  That's also why they created the Global Shipping Program.

[pjcdn2005]

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@zanadoo_56 wrote:

eBay loves ridiculous shipping costs.  They take a cut for the shipping as well as the item selling price.  That's also why they created the Global Shipping Program.

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eBay does not receive fees on the international shipping portion of a gsp transaction.  

[lja440]

Actually, very hard. I deal in media. Media has a cap, OK it is not difficult to get around it but it is there. and that cap makes no distinction between a thin Harlequin Romance (about 4 ounces) and a hardback coffee table book that may well be in the area of 5 pounds. 

Easiest fix is to always shop total price and don't worry about the breakdown of costs.

[tol-de-rol]

You're kidding. Of course they do.

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eBay does not receive fees on the international shipping portion of a gsp transaction.  

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[green-night]

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@tol-de-rol wrote:

You're kidding. Of course they do.

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eBay does not receive fees on the international shipping portion of a gsp transaction.  

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From who?  Because it's not from the seller. 

[tol-de-rol]

The seller never sees (receives) the amount paid by the buyer under the Global Shipping Program. It goes to ebay, who gives a tiny part to the seller to ship the item to the GSP centre, and who gives another part to Pitney Bowes to ship the item. ebay handles the money and takes a healthy cut, of course. Why else would they be doing this? It's more expensive and less convenient. They're railroading everyone into using a system that profits them. See the comment by tofu107 under my post "The Global Shpping Program Scam": http://community.ebay.com/t5/Shipping-Returns/The-Global-Shipping-Program-Scam/m-p/27163053#M194325

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@green-night wrote:

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@tol-de-rol wrote:

You're kidding. Of course they do.

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eBay does not receive fees on the international shipping portion of a gsp transaction.  

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From who?  Because it's not from the seller. 

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[partial*eclipse]

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@lja440 wrote:

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 ... Media has a cap.. and that cap makes no distinction between a thin Harlequin Romance (about 4 ounces) and a hardback coffee table book that may well be in the area of 5 pounds. ...

The policy is still in place, but the chart that shows the maximum allowed flat rate shipping price has been  revised so that every category's maximum is now at least $20. So the whole point is moot.  Even your 5-pound book can be mailed to Zone 8 for $20.41.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/maximum_shipping.html

[missjen831]

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@tol-de-rol wrote:

The seller never sees (receives) the amount paid by the buyer under the Global Shipping Program. It goes to ebay, who gives a tiny part to the seller to ship the item to the GSP centre, and who gives another part to Pitney Bowes to ship the item. ebay handles the money and takes a healthy cut, of course. Why else would they be doing this? It's more expensive and less convenient. They're railroading everyone into using a system that profits them. See the comment by tofu107 under my post "The Global Shpping Program Scam": http://community.ebay.com/t5/Shipping-Returns/The-Global-Shipping-Program-Scam/m-p/27163053#M194325

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@green-night wrote:

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@tol-de-rol wrote:

You're kidding. Of course they do.

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eBay does not receive fees on the international shipping portion of a gsp transaction.  

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From who?  Because it's not from the seller. 

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@tol-de-rol Wrong. You don't know how the GSP works. The buyer makes 2 separate payments--one to the seller (item price plus whatever domestic shipping cost is on the listing) and one to Pitney Bowes (international shipping cost plus import fees). Ebay doesn't "give" anybody any part of any money, ever. Payments don't go TO eBay or through eBay. Payments go straight to the seller via PayPal. Same with the GSP, straight to the GSP via PayPal. 

[tol-de-rol]

You're confusing the issue. Pitney-Bowes pays back a portion of its amount to ebay.

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@tol-de-rol Wrong. You don't know how the GSP works. The buyer makes 2 separate payments--one to the seller (item price plus whatever domestic shipping cost is on the listing) and one to Pitney Bowes (international shipping cost plus import fees). Ebay doesn't "give" anybody any part of any money, ever. Payments don't go TO eBay or through eBay. Payments go straight to the seller via PayPal. Same with the GSP, straight to the GSP via PayPal. 

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[tol-de-rol]

and you can't say "wrong", as you enjoy doing, because unless you are privy to ebay's contract with Pitney Bowes you just don't know. But why would they go to all the trouble of setting this up if they weren't making money? Do you think they just said one day "oh, let's give a huge contract to a company like PB for the heck of it, we won't take anything"?

[imakesugar]

Well, that's too bad they don't, seems like Pitney-Bowes Is raking in the money! maybe the fees for Sellers could go down and their Stocks would go up!  :smileylol:  

[annadryl]

The seller always pays fees on the total sum, however they think they are strategizing, and ebay gets that fee, whether it's item or shipping (it's both). The buyer must have that total price in mind wherever they are shopping, be it ebay, online wherever, the local grocerie etc.

In other words it's up to you what you spend. If you don't like it, don't buy it.

[pjcdn2005]

We were referring to seller final value fees and the seller does not pay fvf on the international portion of shipping for gsp or otherwise. (some exceptions with multiple purchases)

eBay may very well receive some sort of payment from PB, I would be surprised if they didn't. However, I do believe that the main reason for introducing the gsp was to increase the fees overall....which has nothing to do with the cost of international shipping.   Many US sellers are uncomfortable shipping outside of the US so eBay started the program to encourage those sellers to ship to other countries. If there are more items available to international buyers, there should be more total sales on the site and therefore more sales.