that is likely only one part of it Phil
if a buyer is willing to pay $30 for a poster, and shipping is $8,
the bidder rightly lowers his top bid to $22. to account for the
shipping cost on which fleaBay makes nothing
however if shipping is "free" and the bidder pays $30.. fleaBay
makes a higher commission
do that 20 million times and all of a sudden fleaBay has gotten a
decent windfall.. while the seller gets one more knife in the gut
because even if the seller gets $30, fleaBay has even gotten those
few extra cents from your $8
I'd like to see a chasm open up in San Jose right under fleaBay's
office & see the Earth swallow the building whole as it falls down to Hell
At 02:34 PM 8/21/2008, Phil Edwards wrote:
Of course the FREE POSTAGE thing is obvious - if you as a seller
have to fit a "one size fits all" postage cost into the BIN cost of
your item and "free postage" is going to be seeing people listing
auctions that start at anything less than the cost to ship it to
somewhere, it means higher listing fees and higher FVFs for Fleabay.
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cory glaberson
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:50 PM
Subject: [MOPO] Ebay is doing to us what the Airlines did to Travel Agents
My wife worked in travel for the last 25 years and I have witnessed
how the airlines slowly squeezed the profit out of booking travel.
Ebay's squeeze on us seems very similar.
Like the airlines eBay controls the system we sell in
Like the airlines eBay is forcing us to accept more and more of the
cost of doing business - at first paypal was free. Now we can't take
checks and money order, soon ONLY paypal will be allowed
The slow push for free postage is the same idea. Most of us will
just have to eat the extra costs because ebay "says" that what our
customers want.
Nonsense. THEY want it.
The Airlines said the changes were only to improve customer service
and bring people back to flying. Ebay says the reason for the
changes is to bring back customer that have left eBay.
The Airlines were also pretty strict with travel agencies that broke
or avoided the rules. Slowly they weeded them out of the systems and
then the airline cut deals with the larger agencies that survived.
Expect something similar from Ebay
The major difference is that ebay does not actually sell anything in
the marketplace they have created.
I would not be surprised, however, if they buy some large wholesaler
and begin selling things themselves.
It seems like EBay is playing from the same playbook used by many
big companies faced with a lot of little competitors.
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