O/T Ebay to start collecting final value fees on shipping!

[celoknob]

I'm not usually the first one to get on the ebay-bashing bandwagon, but this is absurd. It is completely unfair for ebay to collect fees on shipping costs. In fact, they already do by taking in the paypal fees.

Unless they have a way of putting a ceiling on shipping, this would just make everyone raise shipping costs to cover the new fee---but I guess they are going to put a ceiling on shipping costs, probably so much so that the seller will lose money on shipping and get nothing for handing and shipping materials. To me, this is the most annoying thing ebay has done yet.

[glchen]

I don't think it's a big deal, but it will impact small cost items. For example, if you sell a beater for 0.99 with a reasonable $2 shipping, your final value fee just went up three times. Sellers won't be able to raise shipping costs. You'd get dinged on the shipping cost DSR, and the Top Rated 20% fee is too big to give up. What I do is to recycle the bubble envelopes that I get when I buy cards. I haven't gotten dinged on this yet...

[D. Bergin]

Just seems like more shoddy logic from Ebay to me.

Lower your fees by raising your shipping expenses.


Also checked on the new Final Value "savings". 0 to $50 is going down from 8.75% to 7.5% but anything over $50 is actually being raised from 4% to 4.5%.

This certainly doesn't seem like it will even come close to covering the full value fee tack-on to the S&H costs.

Not that I should be surprised. Their numbers never actually ever come close to matching up with their pitch.

It's another rate hike, plain and simple.

[deadballera]

in return...they are offering free Auction style listings with any start price (50 per month)

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by deadballera

in return...they are offering free Auction style listings with any start price (50 per month)

Doesn't apply to those with stores, and they more then made up for that free listing offer by exponentially raising final value fees if you didn't purchase an Ebay store and actually sold any of those items............which I assume is the purpose of listing in the first place.

[slidekellyslide]

I've been getting 100 free listings per month if I start the item at 99 cents...I use all of them up selling relic cards for a pal of mine who cuts me in on it...occasionally over the last year they've also been giving me 100 free listings per month at any start price...that's not a bad deal. One thing I wish ebay would do is make all the categories like the collectibles category and let you have gallery and 12 pictures for free...I don't get why it's always free in Collectibles but nowhere else.

I also believe in packing well and shipping the next day...I live close to the post office so this is not a problem...I think anyone can achieve the 20% discount if they just do those two things...and for the squeaky wheels who are always trying to get something for nothing I immediately let them know they can return the item no questions asked for a full refund...Never give partial refunds...that only encourages the something for nothing crowd.

[ctownboy]

Total BS. These idiots with MBA's are cutting off their nose to spite their face.

I recently sold a toy truck for $7.05 dollars and was charged a Final Value Fee of $.63 cents (9%). The buyer was from Australia and postage was $17.80 dollars. Under the new rules starting April 19, I would have been charged a FVF of $2.24 for this same transaction if the FVF remains at 9%.

So, because of a rule change and an accounting trick, eBay management has their stock value increase without actually doing anything to deserve it.

Fraud still happens, shill bidding still goes on and yet these guys get a boost in their net worth. Even worse, every time the Post Office, UPS or Fed Ex raises their rates, eBay management will see an increase in fees generated from sales.

Oh yea, the cost to ship the toy truck to Australia was for First Class. If I used Priority Mail International, then shipping would have been a little over $26 dollars.

David