@ashleyshobbies wrote:
I closed my auction because my item was out of stock. Therefore they put that against me for closing the auction early. I didn't have an issue with a buyer who purchased a product on an active listing and i told him or her that this item is out of stock. Basically they are trying to nickel and dime sellers for every little thing based on there made up policies. It's a strategy that everytime Ebay comes up with a new policy every month or so and it's always against the sellers. I don't mind paying 10% fees at all. But when you start adding other percentages for other ridicouls reasons...I call it fraud. The biggest scam Ebay pulls off is charging fees on top of your shipping fees. That's your money for shipping purposes..not there's. Ebays stock value has fallen big time and will continue to fall in the next few years if they continue this practice. Good luck to you
With all due respect, let me explain here as there are some misconceptions.
It's not a fee for a ridiculous reason. Buyers hate when a seller is out of stock, and so does Ebay. You let down a buyer who bought your item, and that causes buyers to leave Ebay. If they wanted a refund, they wouldn't have bought your item. Not having the item the buyer bought is fraud. You said it was available, then you told them it wasn't. Before Ebay just booted the seller, now they have them pay a higher fee and give them a chance to work themselves out of the hole to being an acceptable seller.
Sellers were listing items that were say, $25.00 with $15.00 shipping as say, $3.00 with $37.00 shipping, to avoid paying fees. They moved most of the item cost to the shipping and cheated Ebay of fees; this was known as fee avoidance. So to eliminate this, Ebay went to charging fees on shipping, too.
