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I wouldn't ... but ... If you insist.
Keep your price under 10% over retail price (the price it was before the National Emergency) ... otherwise it is illegal price gouging.
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@atikovi wrote:
@penguins_dont_fly wrote:
Keep your price under 10% over retail price (the price it was before the National Emergency) ... otherwise it is illegal price gouging.
So if you list it in an auction and it's bid over that 10% threshold, what happens?
What is the Seller's INTENT???
If a seller is just trying to "help" get product to people during the crisis ... why not just list it as Fixed price with a reasonable BIN?
If the seller is counting on profiting from the fear, misery and need of the buyer by auctioning the item .... that INTENT is clearly something else 😞
@atikovi wrote:
@penguins_dont_fly wrote:
@atikovi wrote:
@penguins_dont_fly wrote:
Keep your price under 10% over retail price (the price it was before the National Emergency) ... otherwise it is illegal price gouging.
So if you list it in an auction and it's bid over that 10% threshold, what happens?
What is the Seller's INTENT???
If a seller is just trying to "help" get product to people during the crisis ... why not just list it as Fixed price with a reasonable BIN?
If the seller is counting on profiting from the fear, misery and need of the buyer by auctioning the item .... that INTENT is clearly something else 😞
You usually list auction format when you don't know what the item is worth to other people. Intent is to sell. If the result is a large profit, that's not profiting from the fear, misery and need of the buyer. It's the buyer choice to pay what they paid.
That is horsepucky.
We aren't talking collectibles or one-of-a-kind items.
You DO know what the item is worth in a normal retail setting.
Auctions of commodities cause a false sense of scarcity if nobody is listing fixed price.
Playing to the fears about scarcity to a panicked public by running auctions and wiping your hands of it because "they bid it up" is just ... I don't have polite words for it ...
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@atikovi wrote:
@penguins_dont_fly wrote:
@atikovi wrote:
@penguins_dont_fly wrote:
@atikovi wrote:
@penguins_dont_fly wrote:
Keep your price under 10% over retail price (the price it was before the National Emergency) ... otherwise it is illegal price gouging.
So if you list it in an auction and it's bid over that 10% threshold, what happens?
What is the Seller's INTENT???
If a seller is just trying to "help" get product to people during the crisis ... why not just list it as Fixed price with a reasonable BIN?
If the seller is counting on profiting from the fear, misery and need of the buyer by auctioning the item .... that INTENT is clearly something else 😞
You usually list auction format when you don't know what the item is worth to other people. Intent is to sell. If the result is a large profit, that's not profiting from the fear, misery and need of the buyer. It's the buyer choice to pay what they paid.
That is horsepucky.
We aren't talking collectibles or one-of-a-kind items.
You DO know what the item is worth in a normal retail setting.
Auctions of commodities cause a false sense of scarcity if nobody is listing fixed price.
Playing to the fears about scarcity to a panicked public by running auctions and wiping your hands of it because "they bid it up" is just ... I don't have polite words for it ...
.
Now THAT'S horsepucky. It's not like selling insulin. Nobody NEEDS tp. It's not a necessity of life when there are alternatives. It's a nicety, even a luxury in some countries. If some rich person wants to spend $50 a roll instead of going to the supermarket and standing in line 20 minutes, that's his choice.
Wal-Mart, Amazon and other online venues have TP available online ... at normal prices.
eBay sellers seem to be the only ones perpetuating this ... do we really want that reputation?
Edit ... SOME eBay sellers. There are still honest sellers listing at normal prices.
@atikovi wrote:
@penguins_dont_fly wrote:
@atikovi wrote:
@penguins_dont_fly wrote:
@atikovi wrote:
@penguins_dont_fly wrote:
@atikovi wrote:
@penguins_dont_fly wrote:
Keep your price under 10% over retail price (the price it was before the National Emergency) ... otherwise it is illegal price gouging.
So if you list it in an auction and it's bid over that 10% threshold, what happens?
What is the Seller's INTENT???
If a seller is just trying to "help" get product to people during the crisis ... why not just list it as Fixed price with a reasonable BIN?
If the seller is counting on profiting from the fear, misery and need of the buyer by auctioning the item .... that INTENT is clearly something else 😞
You usually list auction format when you don't know what the item is worth to other people. Intent is to sell. If the result is a large profit, that's not profiting from the fear, misery and need of the buyer. It's the buyer choice to pay what they paid.
That is horsepucky.
We aren't talking collectibles or one-of-a-kind items.
You DO know what the item is worth in a normal retail setting.
Auctions of commodities cause a false sense of scarcity if nobody is listing fixed price.
Playing to the fears about scarcity to a panicked public by running auctions and wiping your hands of it because "they bid it up" is just ... I don't have polite words for it ...
.
Now THAT'S horsepucky. It's not like selling insulin. Nobody NEEDS tp. It's not a necessity of life when there are alternatives. It's a nicety, even a luxury in some countries. If some rich person wants to spend $50 a roll instead of going to the supermarket and standing in line 20 minutes, that's his choice.
Wal-Mart, Amazon and other online venues have TP available online ... at normal prices.
eBay sellers seem to be the only ones perpetuating this ... do we really want that reputation?
OK then, nobody will buy the $50 rolls here. No harm no fowl.
The only reputation I don't want perpetuated on Ebay is caused by sellers peddling cars needing unmentioned thousands of dollars in repairs, not nickel and dime sales. I hear on other forums how somebody bought a car here and the transmission or engine went out and now they would never buy a car on Ebay again. Makes it harder when I want to sell a car here.
Used car sales are a totally different kettle of fish ... any private, non-dealer used vehicle sale has always been caveat emptor ... the saying is "buying somebody else's headache".
This has nothing to do with price gouging.
eBay has always had a problem with being a low-bar to entry for any and all types of sellers. If you have a pulse and a computer, you can list here. That leads to the good, the bad and the ugly. The really bad and ugly usually get weeded out quickly ... they are the ones whinging about why they have been suspended because of metrics or other shenanigans.
What I am saddened (and angered) by are previously decent, good sellers losing their integrity and falling to the lure of greed in these scary times.
These sellers are just adding to the "eBay is full of scammers" mindset that has been growing ... and that hurts ALL of us.
I have been devoting a bit of time every day to reporting listings ... and will continue to do so ... because I want to protect my own sales ... and get rid of the truly ugly.
