In my opinion the 10 percent fee for shipping & handling only seems to hurt the consumer. No doubt most if not all sellers here on e-Bay must have increased their fees with this in mind. Am I wrong? But then again I am only new here so my opinion is probably moot. But then again as a new buyer I will be more careful in buying from e-Bay knowing there are fees they charge that are passed on for the consumer to pay such as this 10 percent S&H fee on the sellers.
Shame on e-Bay
@onanysunday711 wrote:
@theguitarpartsguy wrote:
@onanysunday711 wrote:
@theguitarpartsguy wrote:
@onanysunday711 wrote:yes but they lied about why they were doing it
they simply want more money if they would have said so it would have been better plan but they lie
they are no better than obama,and the rest of the politicians in washington, they lie
They did not lie about it. Sellers used to list an item for a penny and then jack up the shipping price to something near what the selling price of the item ought to be, so that they could get around paying fees on the entire sale and instead only pay fees on the 1-cent selling price. It used to be common practice here in the old days. Ebay plainly stated that was the reasoning behind the charge on shipping when they put the fee in place, no lying about it.
yes they lied, they also said it was to imrove the buyers experience my buyers pay more now
they did nothing to stop what they said they were stopping, sellers can still way overcharge on shipping
in fact they are incouraging it
they sure have you fooled tho
As a seller who used to sell bigger ticket guitars that were supposed to have MAP (minimum advertised price) policies attached to them, I used to see all sorts of trickery used by sellers to get around both dealership rules of the guitar manufacturers and methods used to get ahead. In fact, I got angry at one company I used to sell for and listed 10 inexpensive acoustic guitars in a dutch auction listing once at a penny each with shipping at a hundred bucks, because the MAP policies were not being policed on eBay. I got phone calls from the rep about it, but they started policing eBay sales after that, so I got my point across. The uniform eBay charge of 10% across the board (including shipping) stopped a lot of games like that and evened the playing field. I haven't been "fooled" by anyone, but I've been around this place for quite a while and have seen a LOT of changes over the years. Frankly, the best way I have found to sell items is to include the shipping in the price of the item and charge no shipping on top of the item price.
Again, there was no lying, it was stated plainly that the charges were in order to put a stop to sellers selling items on the cheap and marking up the shipping to get around eBay fees. I'm sorry if you feel otherwise, but you're simply mistaken.
like i said they lied and the crooked carnival barking clowns that set ebay policy have got you totally fooled
soory about yer luck
by the way i know quite a few ebay sellers and they all agree, ebay lies and lied about this policy.period
you are of the very few naive enuff to buy into their
You are fooling yourself if you think you have any clue of what I know and don't know, and you have no need to tell me "soory" about my luck. It matters not how many sellers you know or whatever, first, this is eBay's court, you have to play by their rules if you want to be here, and second, I know for a fact that eBay changed the rules to level the shipping playing field, there were hundreds, maybe thousands, of sellers breaking the rules before the change. You can say you "think" they were lying, but you no more know that as a fact than you know me in person. I am far from naive, I have been here on eBay since 1999, so I have been around the eBay block a few times myself. It has changed a lot since the early days, and not all that change has been for the better in my opinion, but it is what it is. I don't buy into anything they feed us, necessarily, but I do adapt and change as needed to stay within the rules and do my best as a seller.
@billy_biggle_fan wrote:With hundreds of thousands of different items listed here, each with different weights and sizes, and each carrier having different rates, classes of service, discount levels, and requirements for mailing, and including a seller's actual handling expenses such as tape, boxes, and so on, with all of those being priced differently, exactly what software could eBay use to determine whether or not shipping is excessive? Even if such software existed, who would determine what is reasonable and what is excessive?
I frequently sell video game consoles with free shipping, on my TRS selling ID. They aren't light. They don't fit into any flat rate box. And my international customers can all see the shipping charges to their country. It isn't hard to list free domestic shipping, while charging for international.
Whether or not you believe that eBay lied when they changed the fee structure is irrelevant. The fee has been in place for 3 years; and isn't going away. Get over it.
eBay has never issued partial fee credits. It's all or nothing. If you look here, http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/credits.html , you'll see that there are only 3 reasons eBay will issue a final value fee credit. None of those include giving the buyer a partial refund.
When they started the TRS program and the fee discounts, they were very clear that these discounts would only apply to the item price portion of the final value fee.
Belive whatever you want to. The choice to continue selling here or not, is yours.
@widget14 Hi, widget...the next time you are unsure of what to do as a seller, come here to the Part Time eBay Sellers Group and ask for advice. Since you didn't know that the buyer wanted to pick the item up until after the auction ended, how do you expect eBay to know that you didn't ship your item ~ that is why you have been charged. If you had set your listing up to include "local pickup" and the buyer had selected that option, there would have been no FVFs, and btw, for the exposure that eBay provides, the selling fees are really quite reasonable.
