[DeTomaso] Ebay fees a lot higher now?

[Ken Green]

A while back I put in an extra charge if the buyer paid with paypal and they pulled the auction.  Sure looks like an antitrust issue.
 
The officers are making all the $s they can before ebay collapses.  The new American way.
 
Ken

--- On Sat, 6/25/11, boyd casey <boyd411 at gmail.com> wrote:


From: boyd casey <boyd411 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Ebay fees a lot higher now?
To: "Julian Kift" <julian_kift at hotmail.com>
Cc: kenn_green at yahoo.com, "De Tomaso List" <detomaso at realbig.com>
Date: Saturday, June 25, 2011, 11:47 AM


I wonder what e-bay would do if a seller listed a 10% buyers premium
(similar to what many "real " auction houses do. I haven't checked but they
probably prohibit it!
Boyd

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> That's the way it used to be, but Ebay has caught on now you pay 9% on the
> total cost to buyer i.e. 9% on the final sales price and 9% on the shipping,
> so a seller cannot cheat Ebay out of anything! The seller needs to jack up
> shipping costs to cover the 9% he is being charegd by Ebay on the shipping.
>
> Julian
>
>
> > CC: wdemelo at cogeco.ca; kenn_green at yahoo.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> > From: cmccann1972 at gmail.com
> > Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Ebay fees a lot higher now?
> > Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:08:49 -0500
> > To: julian_kift at hotmail.com
>  >
> > Which is precisely why you will see many successful sellers have the
> lowest price of the item compared to others selling the same thing, but a
> higher shipping cost. The out of pocket to the buyer turns out to be a wash,
> same cost no matter what. But since the majority of fees are calculated on
> final sale price and not shipping, a seller can save money by making the
> item cheaper and jacking the shipping cost up beyond the real shipping
> cost.. Buyers tend to complain about high shipping costs... IMHO, they
> should think carefully. Most of the time the buyer is spending the same
> amount if money or less on the item he is buying, and the seller is cheating
> eBay out of fees, not the buyer into more cost. It's just the seller trying
> to recoup some loss on the sale due to the extreme high fees.
> >
> > Cullen
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Jun 25, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I was planing to list some items and this thread caused me to go check
> Ebay's fees and fine print;
> > >
> > > Yes it is 9% final sales fee, but that is now calculated on the total
> cost to the buyer i.e. item sales price plus handling & shipping fees! So if
> you ship an item at your true cost to buyer, you are on a loser from the
> start.
> > >
> > > But wait that's not all, as depending on how many items you list a
> month, if you want a reserve or But it Now there's more fees to pay! A
> reserve price auction for an item over $200 is now charged at 1% of reserve
> price up to a maximum $50 in fees.
> > >
> > > I'll be thinking carefully before I list too much on Ebay.
> > >
> > > Julian
> > >
> > >
> > >> From: wdemelo at cogeco.ca
> > >> To: kenn_green at yahoo.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> > >> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:47:12 -0400
> > >> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Ebay fees a lot higher now?
> > >>
> > >> I just paid almost $50 for selling a few small items
> > >> Will
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:
> detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
> > >> Behalf Of Ken Green
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 3:47 PM
> > >> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> > >> Subject: [DeTomaso] Ebay fees a lot higher now?
> > >>
> > >> I sold some parts on ebay and should have looked at their final fees.
> I
> > >> thought they were about 3%, but they are 9%. Did they have a big fee
> > >> increase at some point?
> > >>
> > >> Ken
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