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NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

iksacraft — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 00:16:10 GMT

I will never sell on ebay again. How dare you take 1/3 of my money. I was sucked in with your free fee for selling to only find out you took 1/3 of the seeling price. NEVER AGAIN WILL I SELL ON EBAY. Not only that using Paypal costs me money, my $600 camera that sold for $400 is now only worth $325, that rubbish!

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

*sparklz* — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 00:27:51 GMT

It is NOT free to sell on ebay

All the costs are there for you too read BEFORE you chose to sell here by doing the research.

It can be misinterpreted with the free to list BUT you told of the % fees IF the item sells

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 00:43:29 GMT

Nobody here offered you anything for free and nobody here took your money

How dare you come here and falsely accuse volunteer members who are buyers and sellers like yourself of doing so

We have nothing to do with what ebay charges, or that you choose not to read how ebay works in all the time you have been a member

By the way, ebay staff never even read here, let alone do they care if you use ebay or not

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

shoppingbag* — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 00:51:16 GMT

If eBay had taken a third, you would have received $267 after selling at $400. Why would you think that eBay would provide a free service to you? This would be totally illogical for anyone in business to be doing it for nothing. If you use any service then you have to pay. You have obviously misunderstood, or didn't read or understand the conditions, for which you can hardly blame eBay. At the end of the day it is your choice whether to use a service or not. There is no such thing as a "free Lunch", this is a very common and true saying. As for Paypal, their fees are quite low, once again providing a service for which there is a fee. Ebay is still the best way to sell items in Australia, others do not have as many customers or get the same exposure.

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

*sparklz* — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 01:10:30 GMT

@iksacraft wrote:
I will never sell on ebay again. How dare you take 1/3 of my money. I was sucked in with your free fee for selling to only find out you took 1/3 of the seeling price. NEVER AGAIN WILL I SELL ON EBAY. Not only that using Paypal costs me money, my $600 camera that sold for $400 is now only worth $325, that rubbish!

In the end ANYTHING is only worth what people are willing to pay for it not matter what you think it is worth.

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

shoppingbag* — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 08:15:13 GMT

Extremely well put sparklz.

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

kopenhagen5 — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 08:54:59 GMT

I think english is not your first language so you have misunderstood.

eBay say free to list an item but if it sells then you pay the sell fee.

Not fair to blame eBay on a public forum for your error.

You need to read the info on selling in site map on the bottom of the page.

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

shoppingbag* — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 08:58:23 GMT

Second hand items are usually only worth half the original purchase cost, you got a little more than that, so you are probably lucky.

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

chameleon54 — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 21:49:55 GMT

You spelt the brand Canon wrong in the item title. You where lucky to get any bids for your camera. As can be seen on the box in your photo. Canon is spelt with one "N" in the middle. You spelt it as Ca "NN' on. You cant blame ebay if you title the item incorrectly so that it does not show in most peoples searches.

That important little nugget aside. The camera is available new on ebay for $689.00. You received $400 for a used item. Considering your typo, that is a pretty good result. And yes you paid a fee for the services you used, but none of us work for free do we ?.

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

performance_parts_clearance_centre — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 22:19:15 GMT

Summary:

1) Seller lists used item for half of new retail price.

2) Item sells at 2/3 of new retail price.

3) Seller furious that item didn't sell for full new retail price.

4) Seller even more furious at having to pay Final Value Fee, and falsely claims it to be 1/3 of the selling price.

At some point, perhaps seller will explain how they came to the conclusion that the Final Value Fee on a $400 item is $75.

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

aussie_two — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 13:38:38 GMT

Sorry, i'm confused, why would ebay charge you (1/3 rd of $400 for a selling fee) when the actual ebay charge for selling your camera item was 10.9% or $43.60, if they charged you 1/3rd of $400, that is aprox $133.33, so either ebay made a big mistake or you did?

Are you sure that you did not owe ebay previous selling fees from items sold already that had not been paid and these fees were added to the final value fee on this sale?

Here is a link to selling fee PDF of all ebay fees for all to see clearly available on the website for all to see.

https://sellercentre.ebay.com.au/sites/default/files/complete_fee_table_AU.pdf

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

kopenhagen5 — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 22:51:22 GMT

I think OP meant it sold for a third less. Wanted 600 and only got 400.

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

springyzone — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:40:16 GMT

@iksacraftwrote:
I will never sell on ebay again. How dare you take 1/3 of my money. I was sucked in with your free fee for selling to only find out you took 1/3 of the seeling price. NEVER AGAIN WILL I SELL ON EBAY. Not only that using Paypal costs me money, my $600 camera that sold for $400 is now only worth $325, that rubbish!

It would be interesting to see what the promotion said. Your average person gets access to some free listings every month on ebay anyway. Every now and again, with special promotions, they may get access to more. But while it is free to make the listing, it isn't free from fees, so you would have been up for ebay plus paypal fees and while they may not come to a third of the price, still make up a fairly hefty chunk.

I can understand you are disappointed as you may have paid $600 for your camera and you say it is new, never used.

But there are some things you never mentioned in your listing.

-when & where you bought the camera (so people know how old it is)

-why you are selling it

As a buyer, I would want to know those details & want to know if it had any warranty left-in Australia.

When you tick that box that says new, never used, the ebay system defines that as maybe a factory second, although if so, I would expect it to be mentioned in the actual listing.

Plus people don't know how much you paid for it originally.

If you showed the original receipt I think people would be more inclined to take it as genuine.

Put it this way, I am surprised you got bids without people asking a lot of questions first.

So all in all, without improving your ad, you were unlikely to get more than the 300s I would have thought. The only way it may have got more is if someone could come round and actually look at it before you sold it to them but ebay doesn't really allow that exchange of addresses etc any more.

You are right, you possibly would have been better advertising on a different place-gumtree or facebook marketplace, no fees at all with them but possibly not as big an audience either.

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

dazzledayz — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 23:53:55 GMT

@iksacraftwrote:
I will never sell on ebay again. How dare you take 1/3 of my money. I was sucked in with your free fee for selling to only find out you took 1/3 of the seeling price. NEVER AGAIN WILL I SELL ON EBAY. Not only that using Paypal costs me money, my $600 camera that sold for $400 is now only worth $325, that rubbish!

Probably not a bad idea lol.

The OP most likely took up one of the free to sell promotions and never read the fine print.

(like it has to sell between specific dates to qualify for 0% FVF)

I'm also a bit puzzled by the unusual maths employed.

I suspect the OP may also be a rather difficult buyer.

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

*tippy*toes* — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:04:10 GMT

I would say it was like the old 100 free listings we used to get. For the unintiated, it was easy to get caught if you didn't read the fine print say it covered insertion fees only.

If the OP did list with a completely fee free promotion, then they need to contact eBay and get a fee refund. There have been plenty of glitches where people have listed using a completely fee free offer and getting charged. A phone call sees it right.

I also wondered if they had listed with completely fee free, it might have rolled over, which then eliminates the offer, but I could only see one completed item for the item sold.

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

mj_v2.0 — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 08:10:34 GMT

cant delete posts, only edit

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davewil1964 — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:57:35 GMT

@mj_v2.0wrote:
cant delete posts, only edit

And this is relevant to what sparklz posted how? Or this thread for that matter.

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

furnhouse1 — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 02:06:54 GMT

Is there any market place which offer you free selling service?

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

dazzledayz — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 02:11:58 GMT

Gumtree is pretty popular but it IS owned by eBay so may not be free for ever.

Alternatively the FB buy/sell groups may work for you.

There are no free venues, that I'm aware of, which offer wide geographical reach though.

Re: NEVER SELLING ON EBAY AGAIN

*tippy*toes* — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 02:25:44 GMT

@furnhouse1wrote:
Is there any market place which offer you free selling service?

Would you give your product away for free? I thought so. Why then would you expect an advertising company to give their product away for free? You're in business to make a profit. So are they. Why should you be the only one to profit from business?