Ebay seller charges gone up?

I'm in two minds about eBay. Nowhere else can get you so many potential buyers, for just about anything, all over the world or whatever country you wish to sell to. On the other hand, they really stick the arm in on fees, as many sellers have no other choice aside from giving up their eBay revenue stream completely. I'll echo what someone else said earlier in the thread, I really wish Google would put together a competing marketplace and trash them on price.
 
I kinda stopped using ebay when they went to 10% fee's and then the forced to accept paypal for even more of a sting, plus it's really gone downhill the last couple of years, it seems mainly for shops to offload there goods now, it used to be more personal with a lot of personal items that were actual auctions, now it's like looking at an online store.
 
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hyperst said:
I kinda stopped using ebay when they went to 10% fee's and then the forced to accept paypal for even more of a sting, plus it's really gone downhill the last couple of years, it seems mainly for shops to offload there goods now, it used to be more personal with a lot of personal items that were actual auctions, now it's like looking at an online store.
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Agree completely. Been using it for around 10 years now. At first you could find anything on there but it's becoming harder and harder. In the past when i've sold large value items, i've requested a transaction cancellation which, when the buyer agrees, you get refunded whole final value fee, insertion fee and everything else. Saved me a lot in the past but it is classed as circumventing fees but ebay still allow it so i continued to abuse it. The last thing i sold was one of those crappy electronic body toners for £16 + £6 postage. Royal mail also take the biscuit with their recorded delivery service. £12 to send a 2kg parcel 40x30x10cm. I can send a complete gearbox to scotland for £14 ffs.
 
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I thought pay pal charge 6%?
What also winds me up is they charge you the full amount even tho eBay take 10%
 
I do hate the fees but I tend to get more money on eBay then I would do selling elsewhere most of the time after the fees are taken off. For expensive items I tend to do collection only then request to cancel the transaction if its ok with the buyer for a small discount :)
 
Ebay's fees are extortionate, by using bank transfer you can avoid paypal fees, but that is at the buyers discretion. I now sell mainly on private forums accepting payment by bank transfer, it offers much better seller protection than paypal and is free! The service ebay offer is not worth 15% of the sale.
 
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I sell a lot of stuff on eBay, the fee's make me rage but I get a lot of people asking me for X or Y item and if they can have this many, normally do direct sales through BT or Paypal avoiding eBay all together.

But eBay is like Google in the search engine world.
 
I've never sold on eBay and it looks like I won't be starting. I always sell things through forums such as this and try to buy there too. One annoying trend on other forums recently is that a lot of people still want to use paypal and ask the seller to send as a gift (so it costs me more money). I think I'm going to start refusing to use paypal again.

I must admit I never knew gumtree was owned by eBay.

I'd probably use a google marketplace if they had one. Also whatever happened to google payments?
 
try EBID no listing fees and just 3% charge on a sale.
They have nowhere the same customer base as Feepay ( I think i saw somewhere they are 2nd in the charts) but their listings still get seen on Google, as long as you sell an item as "buy it now"
 
phil-k said:
try EBID no listing fees and just 3% charge on a sale.
They have nowhere the same customer base as Feepay ( I think i saw somewhere they are 2nd in the charts) but their listings still get seen on Google, as long as you sell an item as "buy it now"
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ebid +1

its quiet there but if I need any tat that it the first place I look - ebay is the last
 
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