mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
Regards,
@coffeebean832 wrote:
@mam98031 wrote:One benefit is the coupon for Ebay branded shipping supplies. If a seller uses these supplies, the coupon goes a long ways to offsetting the store fee.
Since the quality of product has gone severely downhill, the quantity for the price has drastically changed since launch, and the prices are really inflated compared to other places that offer better qualify supplies- I will respectfully disagree that the shipping supply coupon goes a "long way" towards offsetting the store fee. It's more like 2 feet on a mile long track. 😜
The experience will not ever be the same for all. There are still plenty of sellers that get good benefit from the shipping supplies. I use the padded envelopes and the tissue paper. I find them to work very well for me and have since the beginning.
The prices are however to high IMHO. And I've been trying to get Ebay to increase the coupons for store owners for YEARS now. They keep saying it is a good idea yet nothing is ever done. The product prices continue to go up and up but not the coupons. They are the same as they were when this program was introduced. We can't even get a cost of living raise.
@selsa84 wrote:It's to pay for the 329% increase in Ebay's CEo salary. Keep cheerleading though
Except the fees did not even get close to that percentage, so a bit of an overstatement.
@coffeebean832 wrote:
Since the quality of product has gone severely downhill, the quantity for the price has drastically changed since launch, and the prices are really inflated compared to other places that offer better qualify supplies- I will respectfully disagree that the shipping supply coupon goes a "long way" towards offsetting the store fee. It's more like 2 feet on a mile long track. 😜
You hit on a very good point ... the eBay supply coupon sure doesn't go as far as it used to ...
Keep in mind that last year PayPal raised their rates pretty significantly. So what we use to pay of 2.9% to them now is as high as 3.49% and a 49 cent per transaction fee.
@mr_lincoln Most items are priced over $25 so I always pay more for my 'free' supplies. The price to purchase these supplies has gone up, but our allotted amount on the coupon does not go up.
@evry1nositswindy wrote:@mr_lincoln Most items are priced over $25 so I always pay more for my 'free' supplies. The price to purchase these supplies has gone up, but our allotted amount on the coupon does not go up.
@evry1nositswindy When the coupons first came out and depending on what one purchased there could actually be some left over $$ ... comparing last year to this month I can say I only was paying the sales tax over the coupon value ... I just purchased similar supplies using the coupon and not only the sales tax but additional out of pocket money for about the same things.
Now, we're talking boxes here and I know for a fact that corrugated costs have gone up drastically due to supply chain issues. Two weeks ago I was talking to a business associate in the corrugated industry, they are running into 2 issues right now trying to meet demand ... 1) availability of corrugated material and 2) quality of the material when they find it.
