Going only by feedback you made 350 sales last year (that you left FB for) and got 10 return (requests?).
That is higher than the average of under one percent.
EBay expects sellers to settle disputes promptly.
Even if you have a No Returns policy you are allowed to demand the return of the disputed product before shipping, although you might (well, probably) will be required to send return postage.
Were you refusing the returns and therefore losing the disputes?
The $100 coverage for insurance for USPS changes to $50,
Talk to Post Master General Louis DeJoy about that.
EBay has no control over USPS charges.
And for the record there are several third party insurers who do one-off or annual insurance.
We use Hugh Wood International which is the insurer for the American Philatelic Society and our policy also covers shows, shoptheft, fire and water damage, loss and damage in transit. HWI specializes in collectibles both for dealers and for collectors. They have an office in New York City.
no more global shipping allowed
Do you mean International Shipping? Or do you mean you are no longer allowed to use the Global Shipping Program?
Even a rank newbie can ship internationally and get a discount on the cost of shipping with very little research.
the new 30 cent per item plus 13 percent taken away
Both Paypal and the new Managed Payments include a 30c non-refundable fee. PP has required the fee for several years, although it only became non-refundable (when there was a refund) about two years ago.
Fees on sales started being set by category a few years ago too.
Here is the fee schedule-- you have to scroll down a bit. The fees range from 0% to 14.55%.
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/store-selling-fees?id=4809
Most Collectibles and Antiques are 11.7%.
another 6 percent, with a note that says, you are below standard.
Yes.
A Top Rated Seller gets discounts on FVF, plus some other perks.
Losing TRS status returns you to the rates paid by the basic sellers including newbies and occasional sellers.
I am just supposed to understand that that is their "billing cycle."
Yes.
When you lost your TRS, the higher fees started with the new billing cycle and when you got it back, the lower fees did the same.
Nothing ever happens to these scammers.
You don't explain what scams your customers were running.
Were they returning boxes of rocks?
Were they complaining about damage in transit, but refusing to return even when you sent a shipping label?
We do occasionally see a complaint from a buyer that he cannot use the Money Back Guarantee because he has had "too many" disputes- won or lost.
Or do you regard all customer complaints as scams?
running the prices of collectibles into the ground for the last ten years.
There was a rush on Collectibles around the turn of the millennium because collectors learned that they could find online what they could not find in nearby shops.
Then two things happened.
First, collectors learned that a lot of "rare" items were in fact not all that rare, causing prices to drop.
And collectors got older.
We Boomers are now from 56 to 75 years old. We are starting to downsize and even die off. Our children are not collecting the same things. First edition Hemingway? No. Silver Age comic books? Yes.
Chatting with friends (ages 88, 75, and 63) at the coffee shop this afternoon, we found our kids did not want the figurines, fine china, silverplate cutlery, that we had accumulated. (They did want the kitchen ware- good pots and pans are still in demand by younger buyers.)
Anyway.
Times change.
Either we do or we don't.
