You're entirely correct, however Ebay is spinning it as their 'tax' will
help control shipping costs, because that's what buyers are complaining
about. There's a bit of a disconnect here. My experience has been when
you tax something, the price goes up, not down!?! Buyers complain about
shipping because the cost of shipping via UPS/USPS/FedEX is too
expensive, especially for the little guys. The little guys support the
massive discounts that the big sellers get. UPS has a 'special deal' on
shipping and it's based on quantity. If you ship like I do, you get a
massive 5% off, which still makes them 25% higher than Media Mail. If
your shipping costs are $1000/week, you get 20% off. Needless to say,
it doesn't help me one bit.
On ebay, CD's are limited to a max $3.00 shipping, and LP's a max $4.00
shipping. So I'd have to roll the increase into the price. This
results in two things, less sales and now my listing fees are 250%
higher because I'm now over a buck, so I have to jack the price up again
to make up for that. It seems like Ebay is trying to squeeze out the
little guy.
Steve
On 3/19/2011 10:12 AM, Christopher Fisk wrote:
Shipping costs are going to go up, not down, the shippers will just
build the fee into the shipping. Your new shipping cost went from $4
to $4.50
Christopher Fisk
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:09 AM, FORC5<[email protected]> wrote:
sounds like greed to me but who am I to judge, they may just be trying to stay
a float. In California that is no easy task.
good luck with that, business is rough.
fp
At 03:24 AM 3/19/2011, Steve Tomporowski Poked the stick with:
The current update is that they are lowering the Final value fee by a whopping
1 percentage point, then killing the whole deal by charging the FVF on shipping
as well as the final selling cost. Since my LPs generally sell for 99 cents
and I have to charge $4 for shipping ($3.84 actual), I save 1 cent and get
socked for 40 cents more on each deal.
Ebay says they are doing this to lower shipping costs.
Steve
On 3/18/2011 8:54 PM, FORC5 wrote:
what update ?
Have not sold in years, their attitude towards gun stuff riled me up. Take my
selling elsewhere but I still buy there, that does not cost the buyer.
fp
At 02:59 PM 3/18/2011, Steve Tomporowski Poked the stick with:
I've been selling on Ebay for about 2 years and the new update is going to wipe
out any hope of making any money. What alternatives are out there for online
auctions? I usually sell books and LPs.
Thanks...Steve
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