Ebay screwing us again

arfur said:
I fail to see your argument here,
1 - who pays £5 -£7 for a DVD + postage ? you'd probably nip to Zavvi or somewhere for free and pay the same amount
2 - you didnt deduct the £1.40 postage (average)
3 - I still to see why we should loose out on postage
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Read my post again....The postage price is included in the £7....

The average postage price on ebay for a DVD seems to be £1.99
 
I think the simple solution is just to use members market, we are talking about tiny amounts of money here. For a dvd costing £1.50 why on earth would you spend an extra 72p on recorded delivery in the first place when you only stand to lose such a small amount if it goes missing?
 
Energize said:
I think the simple solution is just to use members market, we are talking about tiny amounts of money here. For a dvd costing £1.50 why on earth would you spend an extra 72p on recorded delivery in the first place when you only stand to lose such a small amount if it goes missing?
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Members market can be a real pain when trying to sell quiet a few items in one go..with all the questions ,offers ,waiting for replys etc...
 
It really wont make much of a difference execpt it will help out the dozy buyers who buy it thinking its a good price and not including the delivery charge.
 
Why oh Why doesn't google or someone launch a competing online auction site? eBay is horrible and the only way it will get better is if there is some competent competition.
 
In theory this should make ebay a more attractive marketplace for buyers, whilst stopping the usual sellers who break the rules from doing so.
Theres plenty of auction sites out there, using ebay isnt a right, they are a business.
 
I'll just bypass the usual anti EBay posts - go away then, find somewhere else that gives you access to hundreds of thousands of potential buyers for the same kind of charge that EBay make.

This change is extremely welcome - nice one EBay on cracking down on yet another thing on their site.
The reason so many people have a problem with EBay is that there is always somebody trying one on.
Item £1 and then £40 delivery - the idea so that their listing gets priority being cheaper.
They also hope people won't read the high delivery charges and be stuck with them.

The EBay system works really well if you do it properly.
That is - I charge for an item and for delivery I put how much it will cost me to send it via the carriage system of my choice (RM Special Delivery is still one of the best as it offers the tracking demanded).
The price for that delivery service is available on the RM website.
Simply round it up, so using the £4.30 service I'll charge people £5.

As for the free delivery cats - again, it makes sense as these are low cost items to send - amny being sendable for the price of a stamp (unless of course it is an extremely valuable comic for example, but this is a rare transaction).
As the rule of free delivery will apply to all, you simply factor in the cost when you sell the item.
So I sell a DVD for £1 now with say £1 delivery.
Come the changes I'll sell it for £2.
I'll either be competing with people in the same position as me or people selling at stupid prices, either way once their copy has sold then mine will.

*Claps EBay on sensible decision*
 
stoofa said:
I'll just bypass the usual anti EBay posts - go away then, find somewhere else that gives you access to hundreds of thousands of potential buyers for the same kind of charge that EBay make.

This change is extremely welcome - nice one EBay on cracking down on yet another thing on their site.
The reason so many people have a problem with EBay is that there is always somebody trying one on.
Item £1 and then £40 delivery - the idea so that their listing gets priority being cheaper.
They also hope people won't read the high delivery charges and be stuck with them.

The EBay system works really well if you do it properly.
That is - I charge for an item and for delivery I put how much it will cost me to send it via the carriage system of my choice (RM Special Delivery is still one of the best as it offers the tracking demanded).
The price for that delivery service is available on the RM website.
Simply round it up, so using the £4.30 service I'll charge people £5.

As for the free delivery cats - again, it makes sense as these are low cost items to send - amny being sendable for the price of a stamp (unless of course it is an extremely valuable comic for example, but this is a rare transaction).
As the rule of free delivery will apply to all, you simply factor in the cost when you sell the item.
So I sell a DVD for £1 now with say £1 delivery.
Come the changes I'll sell it for £2.
I'll either be competing with people in the same position as me or people selling at stupid prices, either way once their copy has sold then mine will.

*Claps EBay on sensible decision*
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you are of course assuming that you CAN sell it for £2, what makes you think people will buy items in an auction for more than they do now?

Again I reiterate, why should we be forced to pay by paypal and offer free delivery just to line the pockets of ebay.

I've seen craigslist and wasnt too impressed with it, from memory it was very low budget and difficult to navigate, this may have changed now though
 
arfur said:
you are of course assuming that you CAN sell it for £2, what makes you think people will buy items in an auction for more than they do now?

Again I reiterate, why should we be forced to pay by paypal and offer free delivery just to line the pockets of ebay.

I've seen craigslist and wasnt too impressed with it, from memory it was very low budget and difficult to navigate, this may have changed now though
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Well itll bite ebay in the backside if they cant sell it as less people will list stuff etc and less will be bought, therefore less paypal money.
People pay the going rate dont they.

So now you're saying you dont like craigslists, well thats one of the reasons why ebay can do this, theres nobody else who can compete because nobody offers an interface etc as good as ebay.
This also has benefits, looking at 2 prices was a real pain.
 
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