eBay

mdf_jersey · ‎05-16-2019

So, I got suspended yesterday for 7 days, due to transactions out of Ebay. Fair enough . Ebay makes the rules. I sell higher end sport jerseys ranging in price of $300 to 6-8-$1000. Before you think, Wow I wish I can make money like that, let me say its not like I sell one everyday, especially today, and I have my cost into these items as well. When I sell a jersey for lets say $400 , ebay takes there 15-20% , and Pay Pal takes there ( whatever it is ) cut, which would work out to around $80 after all is done. To me that is a lot of money. Consider a seller who sells an item for $10 . His / her cost would be $2 to sell that item. If I sold an item for $1000 , my cost would be $200.

There is something wrong here. For both sellers we get the exact same service and tools to sell. There should be a cap somewhere.

I have been suspended for selling outside of Ebay. Did I learn anything?Your **bleep** right I will do it again, and will be smarter about it. If Ebay would give me a better percentage on my sold costs , then sure I am all about giving them their fair cut, and would have to look at ways of saving ton their absorbent fees..

Iknow , some of you are going to say, well why not leave Ebay, or that's the deal you signed up for. Which is fine. I get it. I guess I am just a rebel...Thanks for reading my rant.

mdf_jersey · ‎05-16-2019

@mdf_jersey wrote:
So, I got suspended yesterday for 7 days, due to transactions out of Ebay. Fair enough . Ebay makes the rules. I sell higher end sport jerseys ranging in price of $300 to 6-8-$1000. Before you think, Wow I wish I can make money like that, let me say its not like I sell one everyday, especially today, and I have my cost into these items as well. When I sell a jersey for lets say $400 , ebay takes there 15-20% , and Pay Pal takes there ( whatever it is ) cut, which would work out to around $80 after all is done. To me that is a lot of money. Consider a seller who sells an item for $10 . His / her cost would be $2 to sell that item. If I sold an item for $1000 , my cost would be $200.
There is something wrong here. For both sellers we get the exact same service and tools to sell. There should be a cap somewhere.
I have been suspended for selling outside of Ebay. Did I learn anything?Your **bleep** right I will do it again, and will be smarter about it. If Ebay would give me a better percentage on my sold costs , then sure I am all about giving them their fair cut, and would have to look at ways of saving ton their absorbent fees..

Iknow , some of you are going to say, well why not leave Ebay, or that's the deal you signed up for. Which is fine. I get it. I guess I am just a rebel...Thanks for reading my rant.

Oh, just so you know this is not my suspended account Im using to write this

rock.star · ‎05-16-2019

Ebays fee is 10 % not 15/20 % PayPal fee is 2.9 % + 30 cents.
And yes if you can't make money here then yes you may need to go elsewhere.
But it is best to know your cost before hand so you won't feel the need to rant .

dhbookds · ‎05-16-2019

Which is fine. I get it. I guess I am just a rebel.

In my opinion you flatter yourself and if you plan on doing it again.....and getting away with it....you'll probably end up out on your ear...... just my thoughts

bonjourami · ‎05-16-2019

yikes..probably not too smart to post that in a public forum, which Ebay owns.

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orangehound · ‎05-16-2019

@mdf_jersey wrote:
When I sell a jersey for lets say $400 , ebay takes there 15-20%

Are you tipping eBay?

The rest of us pay 10% (9.15% with a store) to eBay.

monster-deals · ‎05-16-2019

@mdf_jersey wrote:
So, I got suspended yesterday for 7 days, due to transactions out of Ebay. Fair enough . Ebay makes the rules. I sell higher end sport jerseys ranging in price of $300 to 6-8-$1000. Before you think, Wow I wish I can make money like that, let me say its not like I sell one everyday, especially today, and I have my cost into these items as well. When I sell a jersey for lets say $400 , ebay takes there 15-20% , and Pay Pal takes there ( whatever it is ) cut, which would work out to around $80 after all is done. To me that is a lot of money. Consider a seller who sells an item for $10 . His / her cost would be $2 to sell that item. If I sold an item for $1000 , my cost would be $200.

You need to source better.

I buy things for a ROI of 10x or more.

So if I was selling a jersey every now and then, rather infrequently for $800...the absolute tops I would want to have into it is $75.

Otherwise I'd put my money into something that turns and burns better.

upgradedendmills · ‎05-16-2019

Wow!!!! Your fee was exactly what you agreed to when you signed up for eBay. Why do you think it is unfair now? Are you entitled to a discount for selling a high end item? I wouldn't buy anything from you, regardless of the price. You have nothing to rant about and when you get caught again, I hope you are permanently banned from the site.

treasure.hunter.d · ‎05-16-2019

One of the fatal mistakes that a lot of people make when they are considering Ebay's ability to root out rule breakers is equating how and under what circumstances they do it to their ability level for doing it.

Ebay does what it does for their own reasons but don't think for one second that there isn't a team there, that no matter how smart you think you are, at obfuscating what you are doing (how smart exactly after you announced it to the world here lol) they are smarter, and better at catching you. As much as I have many many issues with ebay I don't discount their ability in this respect one little bit. This isn't call center reps that are responsible for this trust me.

It might not be tomorrow or the next day but they will catch you so best you plan for that as I would assume the next one will be permanent. If you think hiding from them is tough, try and get back in after a permanent ban and actually do business and stay in for more than a heartbeat!

theleyline · ‎05-16-2019

But... if a seller sells 100 items at $10 each, then they're still paying that "$200"(?) in fees. Why should the fees be less because it was one sale versus several? You need to rethink some of this lol

theleyline · ‎05-16-2019

Also, there is a monthly cap. It's $750 I think normally, and if you have a store it's $350 a month that you owe and then you don't get any more fees for the rest of that month, unless I'm mistaken.