eBay Promoting extortion fee Scam

[acroman]

Hey eBay, You're getting paid pretty well to advertise our products overseas. And This is the reason you get paid to start with.  Why would there be an extra fee for you to do the job you're paid to do to start with?

charging us to translate Languages overseas and calling it promoting? This is nothing more than an extortion plot..... 

we've all been running along ok for some years now even with your excessively high Fees.  But now you won't sell our stuff unless we succumb to your Promoting extortion?  the only thing This will promote is the decline of eBay....

I have already been forced to list my items on other sites now.  Which obviously with any quanity of people following suite, Will make your site weaker And their site's stronger.... This is very disrespectful behavior eBay....

I certainly hope you rethink your direction here....

[luckythewinner]

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@rainbowcolorz wrote:

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 Or maybe that's something on the other E I'm thinking about? 

 As far as your average selling prices being $12 ... that's great but wow ... $23.50 to ship 9 ounces is unbelievable.   <wiping brow>

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$23.50 is the USPS retail price for 9 ounces by First Class International to UK/Europe.  The reason people overseas pay that is because I try very hard to sell things that no one else has, or that would otherwise cost them even more from another seller. 

The $12 average price works because I have 10,000 items in inventory that cost me about 30 cents each. They don't move fast, but when they do it is free money because they have long since paid themselves off. 

[rainbowcolorz]

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@luckythewinner wrote:

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@rainbowcolorz wrote:

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 Or maybe that's something on the other E I'm thinking about? 

 As far as your average selling prices being $12 ... that's great but wow ... $23.50 to ship 9 ounces is unbelievable.   <wiping brow>

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$23.50 is the USPS retail price for 9 ounces by First Class International to UK/Europe.  The reason people overseas pay that is because I try very hard to sell things that no one else has, or that would otherwise cost them even more from another seller. 

The $12 average price works because I have 10,000 items in inventory that cost me about 30 cents each. They don't move fast, but when they do it is free money because they have long since paid themselves off. 

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Wow.   This is the time I would love to be able to see your listings.  

[luckythewinner]

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@rainbowcolorz@rainbowcolorz@@rainbowcolorz wrote:

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Wow.   This is the time I would love to be able to see your listings.  

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I can give you an idea. Imagine a seller with items along these lines:

• a french concert flyer for Chubby Checker
• a promotional counter display for Travis Tritt
• candid backstage photos of The Verve Pipe
• a Spanish 45 rpm single by The Hudson Brothers
• a promotional CD single by Aerosmith
• a cassette tape insert signed by Dobie Gray
• a promotional photo of Tom Petty

Nothing expensive. Fairly slow moving merchandise. But if that one Travis Tritt or Chubby Checker fan in Belgium really really wants it, he'll pay the $39.50 to get it.