topic Re: Rising fees in Selling

Rising fees

rob_cas — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 23:50:55 GMT

In the name of " protecting our buyers" Ebay is raking up more moolah by raising fees for sellers below standard.

What a joke! How greedy can you get? Bunch of @#$% mongrels!!!

Shame on you ebay

Re: Rising fees

whiznumber6 — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 00:11:25 GMT

You realise that this a "community" forum made of members just like yourself, and not eBay staff, yeah?

Re: Rising fees

lyndal1838 — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 00:11:52 GMT

Please explain?

What fees have been increased?

Re: Rising fees

twyngwyn — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 00:25:30 GMT

see this thread:

https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/eBay-Announcements-and-Seller/Autumn-2018-Seller-Update/m-p/2134550

Re: Rising fees

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 00:54:26 GMT

Have you told this to ebay

I am guessing no ?

Re: Rising fees

lyndal1838 — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 01:35:35 GMT

@twyngwynwrote:
see this thread:

https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/eBay-Announcements-and-Seller/Autumn-2018-Seller-Update/m-p/2134550

Thanks twyngwyn....I obviously looked before it was showing up as did stawks and kopes.

Re: Rising fees

davewil1964 — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 06:22:18 GMT

I got 3 emails about it.

I'm not going to worry about it too much - I have 2 TRS accounts and this one is above standard, because of the low volume.

Re: Rising fees

brerrabbit585 — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 01:13:01 GMT

I love the way people complain about dodgy sellers but when ebay do something that might actually bring a few people into line everyone complains about that too.

Yes, I know for some things we're at the buyer's mercy but a lot of sellers could help themselves a lot by improving their listings and either giving more detail or being more accurate.

2% isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things (20c out of $10) and I'd much rather pay that than get the boot. If 20c makes the difference between my items being viable and not viable then I'm selling the wrong product.

As for the guaranteed delivery dates, I doubt a lot of people will opt in to it. If a person has good products that people actually want and they give good service I doubt they'll lose too many sales if they don't guarantee delivery dates. I'm certainly not going to lose sleep over it and wear myself out by worrying about things that may never happen or affect me.

The new options for offering returns (or not) seem to be encouraging a lot of sellers to go back to having separate postage, so at least they're not trying to push us into offering free postage like they were.

Re: Rising fees

kizacks — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 02:34:49 GMT

"2% isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things (20c out of $10) and I'd much rather pay that than get the boot. If 20c makes the difference between my items being viable and not viable then I'm selling the wrong product."

I'm not really sure that's the point.

I'm sure Ebay has done their due diligence, but out of curiosity I may confer with my solicitor friend to see what his thoughts on it are. To charge a higher fee for "underperforming" - based on an arbitrary and seriously flawed rating system appears to be pushing the boundary

Re: Rising fees

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 03:01:30 GMT

Ebay is only for protecting the buyer, always, No matter how much of scamming,pants on fire con artist they are

Protect the scammers, cane the sellers and if the buyer is a scammer, cane the seller even harder

Not a popular opinion with some, but that is the reality of ebay

Re: Rising fees

digital*ghost — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 09:32:16 GMT

@brerrabbit585wrote:
I love the way people complain about dodgy sellers but when ebay do something that might actually bring a few people into line everyone complains about that too.

There's also the fact that eBay has a history of deliberately undermining sellers for their own financial gain.

Sellers who fall below standard can only do so by canceling orders for being out of stock, or for having 'case closed without seller resolution' defects (the late shipment rate does not affect a seller's standing).

How many sellers, knowing what it does, atually choose 'out of stock' when they cancel a transaction - my guess is very few.

This leaves cases closed without seller resolution as the primary contender to push a seller 'below standard' - most sellers are allowed 2 of these in an assessment period before hitting 'below standard'.

That means if a seller tries to fight a bogus SNAD claim or two, they risk their eBay fees going up for the privilege.

Protecting buyers, my foot (that is directed squarely at eBay).

Re: Rising fees

aysel.r — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:41:37 GMT

It is not about the fees, eBay wants you gone and will do anything they can to get rid of you if you are not in China peddling garbage off a warehouse floor, if you are stupid enough to keep selling outside of China they will increase the fees to point where they take 100% of what you make, you will pay for postage and the item will need to arive to the buyer before you even send it with FREE postage. they will then charge you for the privlage on top.

ebay has been systematically pushing out sellers outside of China all over the world for many years.

they started with the one sided feedback years ago and just kept going, eBay are only as good as what they can get away with and we are the ones who let them get away with going this far.

try to complain to the bottom of the food chain staff the have in the philipines and see how you go. they could not care less and dont even know how they got to work or why they are there no matter who you talk to.

if all this is not bad enough, just do a goodle search for ebay sales throteling. it is a criminal act and they do it every single day.

they want to protect their buyers and train them to be as cheap as you can possibly imagine and to expect the world for nothing and then all they have to do is complain and they can have the item for free with free postage.