Shipping charges

[mickybruce]

eBay sellers have some great items to sell, but when they include shipping charges on items, many times I can purchase it cheaper on My Prime Amazon account.  Sorry people but that’s what makes you loose watchers, and buyers.

[bonjourami]

"eBay sellers have some great items to sell, but when they include shipping charges on items, many times I can purchase it cheaper on My Prime Amazon account.  Sorry people but that’s what makes you loose watchers, and buyers."

Sounds like you have fallen for their 'free shipping' ads..never mind the Premium fee you are paying every year.

[mickybruce]

If you are concerned about things other people contribute, what do they think of your contribution? Won’t waste your time anymore. 

[luckythewinner]

---

@dbfolks166mt wrote:

@mickybruce wrote:

many times I can purchase it cheaper on My Prime Amazon account

Whether or not the seller has a shipping charge, if it is cheaper on Amazon then it is cheaper on Amazon.

Most sellers here are not interested in taking a loss just to get a sale.

Also ... are you factoring in the cost of Amazon Prime? If prices on Amazon are 10% cheaper than eBay, you would need to buy $1400 worth of stuff there before you came out ahead after the $139 cost of Amazon Prime. 

     It's not always just the cost of the items it is some of the other perks that come with Prime like streaming and other discounts. It is also sometimes about speed. A lot of things I can order off Amazon before 10:00 A.M. are delivered to my house the same day before 7:00 P.M. even on the weekends and holidays. 

---

The OP only mentioned the cost, not speed or streaming services.

Therefore I focused on cost, not speed or streaming services.

[myfrugalboutique]

@mickybruce 

Just leave all of us stupid eBay sellers alone. Don’t you have something better to do. Troll over to Amazon and buy some more polyester clothing and other garbage from them.  They are full of it. 

[mickybruce]

Wow, I think EBay sellers need attitude adjustments.

[bonjourami]

"Wow, I think EBay sellers need attitude adjustments."

Ditto.

[inhawaii]

You don't have to have the lowest priced item for someone to buy it.

I sell stuff all the time where I am the most expensive seller of a particular item and yet people are still buying it from me.

I've even posted here about it "Why are they buying this from me?"

[dbfolks166mt]

"eBay sellers have some great items to sell, but when they include shipping charges on items, many times I can purchase it cheaper on My Prime Amazon account.  Sorry people but that’s what makes you loose watchers, and buyers."

Sounds like you have fallen for their 'free shipping' ads..never mind the Premium fee you are paying every year.

     I have Prime mainly for the streaming services. Generally I find the item cheaper on another site or a B&M store, not always Amazon. However when I find it on Amazon and the price is the same or less the shipping is free. So if I purchase 20 items a year off Amazon at the same price I could have bought if for on eBay but the eBay shipping would have been $7.00 a package, which is a cheap estimate, the $140 in shipping savings covers the Prime cost.

    Sometimes price is not the only consideration. On occasion the free shipping on stuff I purchase is a bonus but the fact that I can get most items in less than a day, sometimes 24 hours, max of 2 days is the reason I made the purchase.  

[myfrugalboutique]

@inhawaii 

That’s correct..because eBay sellers are real people and many customers will pay a bit more for good, dependable service. Additionally the ability to contact a seller and not a robot has something to add that Amazon cannot offer. 

[brightlightbookseller]

Actually, sometimes you can contact the seller on Amazon when an item is being sold by a third-party seller (I should know, we sell there too). It depends on how you initiate the contact.  It's definitely more limited and less likely that you'll be talking to a real person when you need help in general, though.

[myfrugalboutique]

@brightlightbookseller 

It did used to be easier, and now (I cancelled prime) they do their best to make it extremely difficult..especially for those people who aren’t familiar with procedure. 

[dbfolks166mt]

@dbfolks166mt wrote:

@mickybruce wrote:

many times I can purchase it cheaper on My Prime Amazon account

Whether or not the seller has a shipping charge, if it is cheaper on Amazon then it is cheaper on Amazon.

Most sellers here are not interested in taking a loss just to get a sale.

Also ... are you factoring in the cost of Amazon Prime? If prices on Amazon are 10% cheaper than eBay, you would need to buy $1400 worth of stuff there before you came out ahead after the $139 cost of Amazon Prime. 

     It's not always just the cost of the items it is some of the other perks that come with Prime like streaming and other discounts. It is also sometimes about speed. A lot of things I can order off Amazon before 10:00 A.M. are delivered to my house the same day before 7:00 P.M. even on the weekends and holidays. 

The OP only mentioned the cost, not speed or streaming services.

Therefore I focused on cost, not speed or streaming services.

     Understand. I however tend to look at the bigger picture (Good, Quick or Cheap). Even if the price was the same on Amazon and eBay but Amazon has free shipping and the added shipping cost on the eBay item was $7 I would only have to buy 20 or so items in a year to pay for the Prime membership plus I get all the added benefits of Prime. 

[winterpalace25]

I buy toothpaste on Amazon and car parts on eBay.  I might buy specific books on Amazon, but browse by topic on eBay.

I sell used, niche books on both platforms and dishes on eBay.  My books are not FBA on Amazon, and if Amazon has a bunch of $5.00/free shipping copies, I don't sell that book.

In my markets, I don't need to lower my prices or offer free shipping to compete with Amazon. If you sell toothpaste or  source from Temu, you probably do.

[bonjourami]

"Check out my 5 digit feedback. I am hardly rude to my customers. Frankly you are contributing absolutely nothing to this board and there are people here who have legitimate questions"

This thread was meant to bait..and thats what it did.

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

@bonjourami 

😆 🤣 Bon, it's your signature line again!