I have to see what Ebay does about the fixed maximum shipping like there
is on CD's and LP's...and books. If they allow me to increase that for
their tax, well, it still sucks to the buyer. My experience has been
that charging the shipping as part of the price and offering 'free
shipping' doesn't work. I was more successful in showing buyers what
the real cost of shipping was and asking a low price. In fact, IIRC, I
never sold anything with 'free shipping'.
Ebay seems to be trying all sorts of gimmicks to increase revenue.
Rather than try to address the problems of high carrier charges for
shipping and low buyer turnout, which would take effort, they dink
around with everything else that takes little effort.
On 3/19/2011 4:15 PM, Greg Sevart wrote:
For a long time, ebay only sorted on item price. The practice of charging
$0.99 with $65 shipping ensured that those items were sorted on top. For
that reason, I intentionally refuse to buy from sellers that still use it.
Now that they sort on total (shipped) price, the practice has declined
somewhat, but it's still a dishonest practice and I still avoid those
sellers. FWIW, there's a difference between increasing your shipping price
to recoup legit fees and what those scumbags were/are doing--circumventing
FVF.
-----Original Message-----
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[email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 12:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Alternative Selling Sites
Yes, you do come across that on Ebay, but virtually nobody falls for
it. Then again, if the total price is about right for the item, what's
the big deal?
EXCEPT to Ebay who loose on fees. It's there ball and trying to work
around
their fees is going to result in these sorts of changes.
