Determining Price Gouging

[holisticyouhealth]

Who is determining what amount an item is selling for is price gouging? And who determines the products that are essential? I've just had kids multi vitamins listings, elderberry, and vitamin C listings taken down due to a price gouging policy? I've sold many and have all positive feedbacks from buyers.  Besides competitors and random users using the price gouging report option, who sits determining what is too much to sell an item for? Sellers are selling the same items for double the amount.. I just dont agree with this. I sell on Ebay to try and make extra money. I dont sell on ebay to lose m ok ney or break even.. 

[mam98031]

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@rock.star wrote:
This is about ebay policy not any law .

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It's both.

[mam98031]

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@holisticyouhealth wrote:
I agree. You can just report anyone for price gouging and there listing gets removed.. it's ridiculous. Is there some kinda guide to tell me what price I can have my item. How am I going to research what 10% profit from each item would be?

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I don't think that is true.  If that were to be correct, competitors of things not related to the health crisis could significantly damage other competitors. 

brian@ebay 

tyler@ebay 

[mam98031]

I can see where some of the stuff you have sold has reasonable prices and others not so much.   Especially 2 packs of 4 rolls of TP for $33 + 21.75 shipping.  That is a total of 54.75 for 8 rolls of TP.  That is beyond outrageous.  And there are others.

@sas3177 

[sas3177]

I agree and that's why I refunded most of his shipping cost. I have refunded several items like this. Again I was going off of eBays SRP. But now I am being completely transparent about it all. I want ppl to see that it isn't the sellers that are doing ALL the bad stuff. eBay has some wrong doings as well but no one thinks on those lines just the sellers are evil ppl. Again eBay is going to profit every dime of the over priced items that have already sold. I just wanted maybe some ppl could see it from a different perspective. Thank you for your reply. 🙂

[inhawaii]

It's too hard if not impossible for anyone (man or machine) to determine what is and what isn't price gouging.

I think that's why ebay decided to just ban all listings of pandemic-related items.

[mam98031]

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@sas3177 wrote:

I agree and that's why I refunded most of his shipping cost. I have refunded several items like this. Again I was going off of eBays SRP. But now I am being completely transparent about it all. I want ppl to see that it isn't the sellers that are doing ALL the bad stuff. eBay has some wrong doings as well but no one thinks on those lines just the sellers are evil ppl. Again eBay is going to profit every dime of the over priced items that have already sold. I just wanted maybe some ppl could see it from a different perspective. Thank you for your reply. 🙂

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Sorry, I personally don't think there is any defense for selling 8 rolls of toilet paper to someone for $33 before shipping.  I have no idea why anyone would do this to another person who is likely very scared and just trying to survive the best they can.  You took advantage of them IMHO.  I'm not trying to come across self righteous or anything like that.  What you are doing is wrong on many levels not to mention it is illegal.

If you are not a preapproved seller by Ebay for these products, you are risking sanctions against your selling account.  

[earlyant-77]

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@mam98031 wrote:

I can see where some of the stuff you have sold has reasonable prices and others not so much.   Especially 2 packs of 4 rolls of TP for $33 + 21.75 shipping.  That is a total of 54.75 for 8 rolls of TP.  That is beyond outrageous.  And there are others.

@sas3177 

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You mean the 8 MEGA rolls(= 32 regular rolls)? That would also have dimensional shipping charges?

Hoe about if people who sell cleaning supplies, TP, etc., at a reasonable price, get their fees lowered to 1 or 2 percent by ebay so that the price could be lowered even more?

Shipping shows as 15.00 to me. So the actual to the seller price is not 48.00, it's actually 43.20 with shipping. That would be 1.32 per regular roll, which is less than you would pay in a convenience store per roll, except that this is delivered to your door.

[mam98031]

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@earlyant-77 wrote:

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@mam98031 wrote:

I can see where some of the stuff you have sold has reasonable prices and others not so much.   Especially 2 packs of 4 rolls of TP for $33 + 21.75 shipping.  That is a total of 54.75 for 8 rolls of TP.  That is beyond outrageous.  And there are others.

@sas3177 

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You mean the 8 MEGA rolls(= 32 regular rolls)? That would also have dimensional shipping charges?

Hoe about if people who sell cleaning supplies, TP, etc., at a reasonable price, get their fees lowered to 1 or 2 percent by ebay so that the price could be lowered even more?

Shipping shows as 15.00 to me. So the actual to the seller price is not 48.00, it's actually 43.20 with shipping. That would be 1.32 per regular roll, which is less than you would pay in a convenience store per roll, except that this is delivered to your door.

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The seller says they refunded part of the shipping fees they charged.  Which was a nice thing for the seller to do.  But still $33 for 8 rolls [mega or not] is a whole lot of money.    In my area, when in stock of course, that is about $12 worth of TP.  

I'm unsure about your numbers, you may have been looking at a different one of their sold listings.

[brian@ebay]

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@mam98031 wrote:

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@holisticyouhealth wrote:
I agree. You can just report anyone for price gouging and there listing gets removed.. it's ridiculous. Is there some kinda guide to tell me what price I can have my item. How am I going to research what 10% profit from each item would be?

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I don't think that is true.  If that were to be correct, competitors of things not related to the health crisis could significantly damage other competitors. 

brian@ebay 

tyler@ebay 

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Hi @mam98031, I can confirm that reporting an item for price gouging does not automatically mean it will be removed. Thanks!

[bdszelda]

It's getting ridiculous.  That post about the guy selling a video game and eBay saying they are price gouging.  Like....  how in the heck is a video game an essential product and how can it even fall under "price gouging" for an epidemic?  A family member sells beauty products on ebay and just had someone message her saying they will report for price gouging when she's only making $2 profit after all costs, shipping, ebay fees, paypal fees, etc.  It's almost enough to make you shut down all your listings until this mess is done but then we have no income coming in.  

If video games can be fall under price gouging, I guess those PSA graded Pokemon cards selling for $5k to $10k are price gouging as well even though they have sold for that for years so suddenly everyone has to lower their prices so low that they have to take a loss on their products otherwise it's price gouging.

[pkaszuba10]

It doesn’t matter if you list your item for a penny nowadays weirdos are reporting everything they see and putting price gouging as a reason. I’m sure soon eBay will see the flaws in adding a price gouging button and remove it since people have nothing else to do and are taking advantage of it. You could have a necklace listed and someone screams price gouging! 

[pkaszuba10]

Everyone says 10% and assumes everything comes from the dollar store or Walmart and forgets there are fees. It really doesn’t matter it seems the only joy some people get out of life lately is pretending they work for eBay by doing the policing that they think eBay wants them to do! But like I said regardless of price these kind of people dont look at that. They just literally have nothing else to do.

[supplies65]

You cant make any money after paying for ink, packageing ebdy and pay pal fees. 10 % is a joke. Driving to po. Sourceing the products. Your clueless

[frosty-pepper]

I just had  listing for 4 Funko Pops removed due to "price gouging" .  This is absolutely ridiculous.  They weren't even particularly high priced ($60 for 4) and they're certainly not essential.

[epowerbargains]

That is a toy right? There needs to be a better review of what is being removed. When a seller has an item removed they also get a strongly worded warning from eBay regarding violations and what could happen to their account.