Listen Steve, they don't need American business anymore. They have
business overseas and can squeeze Americans as much as they like. Has
anybodies income increased as rapidly as costs over the last decade? I
didn't think so..
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:36:55 -0500, Steve Tomporowski <[email protected]>
wrote:
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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