Fees on Shipping

[dietaryconsultant]

Hello,

I understand why fees began on shipping costs some time ago. Now that managed payments are being implemented it seems like the perfect time to correct the fees on shipping.  I think if you buy your shipping label on ebay that amount should be deducted before the fee is applied. Now that fees are deducted from the item cost and not billed it could easily be implemented.  I'm sure this would encourage more buyers to buy their labels on ebay.  It doesn't make sense to me how they can justify charging a fee on the cost of the label.  I think this would help ease the transition into managed payments better and restore some faith in ebay.  What do you think? 

[dietaryconsultant]

***more sellers to buy their labels on ebay. Sorry for the typo!

[corvettestainless]

The price of final value fees is the price paid for an item to be purchased, tax, shipping and the item. That will never change for 1 very good reason;

Free Shipping- should I get charged on a $15 sale when another seller get's charged on a $10 sale while charging $5 shipping? Remember, free shipping is the preferred ebay way. 

[nobody*s_perfect]

I agree that eBay's insistence that buyers prefer free shipping is the main reason that they won't change the current fee structure.

Another reason is that if only sellers who purchased their postage elsewhere were charged a FVF on the entire payment as they are now, there would be a huge outcry about the unfairness of it.  The sellers who purchase postage elsewhere range from the very smallest, who go to the PO and pay retail, to the large sellers who sell on multiple venues and thus have consolidated their shipping process under one non-eBay postage provider. They would justifiably feel coerced into purchasing postage through eBay.

[bigge123]

Agreed, they LITERALLY claim the reason was that people were overcharging shipping to avoid fees.  Now that they sell shipping the KNOW for a fact, that is not the case on the labels we purchase and use, which they can verify.  So they added a fee for one reason, the reason went away, and they kept the fee.

This is a classic example of bait and switch.  Giant corporations going to corpo though I suppose.  eBay/shipping companies are the real winners of online retail, it sucks.

Then, these punks have the audacity to give me a popup as I'm typing right now, asking if I'm done with my feedback.  Seriously, if I had any other choice I'd use it, but eBay is basically a monopoly that was gained by bait and switch tactics.

[orangehound]

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@dietaryconsultant wrote:

It doesn't make sense to me how they can justify charging a fee on the cost of the label.  I think this would help ease the transition into managed payments better and restore some faith in ebay.  What do you think? 

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eBay is a corporation.

The goal of a corporation is to show increasing profits.

eBay's is not a growing company, so the only way to increase profits is cut costs and/or increase fees.

They are not cutting costs, and thus they are not going to eliminate fees

Buckle up.  Fees are going to increase ... not decrease.

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@bigge123 wrote:

Agreed, they LITERALLY claim the reason was that people were overcharging shipping to avoid fees.  Now that they sell shipping ...  So they added a fee for one reason, the reason went away...

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eBay was already selling postage in 2011 when they instituted the FVF on shipping.  They cannot have separate fee policies for sellers who purchase postage through eBay versus sellers who do not.

[kh-laura]

Hi everyone,

Due to the age of this thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread if you wish to continue to discuss this topic.

Thank you for understanding.