Ebay seller charges gone up?
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This is why monopoly's are bad!
We really need Google, Amazon or Ebid to come along and stick one to them!
Ebay have become a Chinese flea market and an outlet to big names to sell there returns.
We really need Google, Amazon or Ebid to come along and stick one to them!
Ebay have become a Chinese flea market and an outlet to big names to sell there returns.
Nope, all of it went up. They increased the fees, and reeuced the powerseller discounts at the same time.
Technology is 5%, almost everything else is 10%.
eBid, I tried selling on there, out of my 350 buy it nows, I sold around 25 per day on eBay. On eBid, I sold 3 in 2 months.
I took everything off and decided to just not bother, as it was far too much hassle having to constantly adjust all of my quantities to match my stock, as they have no way to allow a program to interface and keep everything updated (unlike every other marketplace).
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Let the buyer pay via paypal but make them pay the gift fee? It won't cost you anything because they've paid the fee.
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Just out of interest where is the 'Members Market' here?
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I thought anyone with 1000+ posts could go there
Rules changed, it's 10000 now.
kind of on topic
i listed 2 items my mum gave me last week. listed both at £4.99 with free p&p for 7 days. after 1 day, i was offered £25 for both (delivered) i agreed to this, they paid my via paypal and i cancelled the auction.
i got an email saying funds were being transferred (£25) when they had transferred, i went to withdraw but it said £24. did paypal and ebay automatically take £1 when i cancelled the auction?
i listed 2 items my mum gave me last week. listed both at £4.99 with free p&p for 7 days. after 1 day, i was offered £25 for both (delivered) i agreed to this, they paid my via paypal and i cancelled the auction.
i got an email saying funds were being transferred (£25) when they had transferred, i went to withdraw but it said £24. did paypal and ebay automatically take £1 when i cancelled the auction?
Paypal takes fees off the £25 so you'd only receive £24+
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Can't tell if joking or serious...
The guy who send the link 'only' has 2400 or so posts so how's he getting in (assuming he is).
I'm joking, just set up your trust account. Click on the trust link on this post and then register for it.
Then you'll have permission to access the area.
yeh that's what i thought. but as i'd cancelled the auction, i assumed it would just go down as a normal transfer? unless she did it through ebay somehow to protect herself?
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It doesn't matter Paypal will take off 3.4% + £0.20 for each payment you receive unless they send it as a Gift (from their Bank or pay the fees).
eBay would take £2.50 + listing fees.
I started a thread on this earlier this year after getting bummed by eBay's fees.
Looked into Amazon, they're even worse. 12% IIRC.
There's such a massive gap in the market here, someone like Branson or <insert generic entrepreneur> could make an absolute killing by halving the fees. People would flock to them in the droves, probably more businesses than individuals to start off with.
The problem is eBay own Paypal, so they have the distribution, publicity and payment all sewn up. They're all based in tax havens as well to maximise the profits, good business sense yes but the hallmark of a well oiled greedy machine in my mind.
Come on then OcUK, between a forum of us we must have the web creation, hosting, ePOS and publicity know-how to start a competing site in the UK? Maybe our new OcUK overlords would even take a punt on us getting it off the ground?
Crowd sourced business model anyone?
Looked into Amazon, they're even worse. 12% IIRC.
There's such a massive gap in the market here, someone like Branson or <insert generic entrepreneur> could make an absolute killing by halving the fees. People would flock to them in the droves, probably more businesses than individuals to start off with.
The problem is eBay own Paypal, so they have the distribution, publicity and payment all sewn up. They're all based in tax havens as well to maximise the profits, good business sense yes but the hallmark of a well oiled greedy machine in my mind.
Come on then OcUK, between a forum of us we must have the web creation, hosting, ePOS and publicity know-how to start a competing site in the UK? Maybe our new OcUK overlords would even take a punt on us getting it off the ground?
Crowd sourced business model anyone?
Nobody can compete with the the number of potential buyers you have with eBay though, regardless of whether a business sets up other auction sites with cheaper fees, they aren't going to change that. I think thats the main reason that a huge player like Google has not really seen it worthwhile.
As others have pointed out, the fees are very annoying for private sellers now, but with the number of people looking at your auction you can usually make far more money than you can on listing sites or newspapers, which offsets the fees.
For one you have the fact that many people go to ebay or find the product through searches without even looking at online shops. Thus you often get people paying more than where they can buy something online, plus people can get caught up in wanting to win the auction.
The important thing though as a private seller is to work out if what you are selling is going to work and when to sell it. If you want £400 for something, a phone lets say. If you list it when there are also tons of them available, including ones from businesses sellers, you are going to struggle and are unlikely going to get the price you want from a private listing site.
If you sell something though which isn't being sold in droves, you will likely fare much better than you would anywhere else.
As others have pointed out, the fees are very annoying for private sellers now, but with the number of people looking at your auction you can usually make far more money than you can on listing sites or newspapers, which offsets the fees.
For one you have the fact that many people go to ebay or find the product through searches without even looking at online shops. Thus you often get people paying more than where they can buy something online, plus people can get caught up in wanting to win the auction.
The important thing though as a private seller is to work out if what you are selling is going to work and when to sell it. If you want £400 for something, a phone lets say. If you list it when there are also tons of them available, including ones from businesses sellers, you are going to struggle and are unlikely going to get the price you want from a private listing site.
If you sell something though which isn't being sold in droves, you will likely fare much better than you would anywhere else.