mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@hermione08 wrote:That's a false economy. Printing labels = printer ink being used up = printer ink costs £££, which I save by penning the sellers' address on the envelope. The idea that printing something instead of writing it saves money is ludicrous. Let's put it this way: Ebay is saving money and so they don't care what we think. People are entitled to switch platform if they don't like it and there's plenty who can pick up the slack.
Let's face it: having to wait days to process money in 2021 is pathetic. I know it's the norm, not just Ebay's time-frame, but it doesn't make it any less ridiculous in the digital era.
I can't answer for the country you are in, but here in the US it is absolutely LESS expensive to print online labels.
Online USPS rates are a whole lot cheaper than full retail you have to pay if you hand write your labels and use stamps or go to the post office to purchase your postage.
As to the actual cost of printing labels, that can be controlled too. For sellers that ship quite a few packages a year, a thermal printer is a good investment. NO INK required. Just some electricity and labels. These printers aren't very expensive and typically will pay themselves off with the money you save in just a few months if not less.
While MP's reports could certainly improve, they do have the information we need for tax purposes. You are assuming something that you haven't yet had the opportunity to even use.
And lets remember, Ebay reports should be supporting documentation that you use to check your books against. Meaning you should be keeping your OWN records. The reports from Ebay and PP should be ones you use to cross check your books to make sure you are accurate, not the other way around.
If you want to sell on Ebay you now need to be signed up to use Managed Payments. Ebay is phasing out PayPal for sellers on Ebay and hope to have every seller in MP by year's end. Here is some information that will help you make your decision as to whether to stay or go. They are short and easy to read.
@**cosmic-guitars** wrote:This was a move that purely benefits eBay shareholders. There seems to be a lot of support for this new MP scheme, by many on here. Some folk just can't see the wood for the trees.
Yes it would benefit the shareholders. Ebay exist to benefit it's shareholders, after all they are a for profit corporation, not a charity. So I'm unsure why you think this is something that others don't realize. Ebay isn't here just to give us a place to sell on, they are here to make money, just as the sellers are.
MP isn't a "scheme". It is a program that Ebay has developed that is much like the money processing programs on other similar sites. Ebay in fact is the LAST of the bigger sites to bring their own money processing program site wide.
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