topic Re: EBAY RIP OFF ON POSTAGE COMMISSION in Selling

EBAY RIP OFF ON POSTAGE COMMISSION

tweed_heads_gold_coast_mobile_computer_repairs — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 22:35:47 GMT

I have 5 ebay selling accounts and pay ebay handsomely every month when monthly invoices roll around.

This latest B/S is a joke and will simply mean the buyers are going to pay more. When buyers pay more, they buy less.

I have already noticed stand alone web sites are selling products cheaper than a lot of items on ebay, because they are not coughing up more than 10% of the sale price in fees, a turn around from a few years ago.

I'm hoping this rip off move motivates a number of sellers to make the move to Quicksales.com.au and raise its profile.

They charge 0% on sales- that 0% totally free and are a subsidiary of the 2.3 billion dollar carsales.com.au. so it's not like

they are ameteurs or new to selling platforms.

Ebay are way to big for their boots and it seems that we just keep taking the **bleep** they dish out to the very people that got them to where they are.

FEEBAY do not pay for my packaging materials, they don't wrap my parcels, they don't book couriers and they don't deal with my customers that have freight/ shipping issues when a parcel is late or lost, so why the hell should they be getting 10% of the postage cost. Can I refer inquiring customers to ebay if they have a freight issue, even if it's only 10% of the customers?

So they will now be double dipping when they also charge the 2.4% on item price AND postage when a customer pays via paypal which is 99% of them + 30 cents per transaction.

Who gives a stuff about the Auspost discount - I don't use them because the prices are way too high compared to couriers.

I paid a courier $53 dollars to send a heavy parcel to WA last week, the Auspost quote was $91. How does a 10% on postage help me? The joke being of course that Auspost will deliver items that have come from overseas for $1 as per the international postal agreement.

I may be complaining like an ass but I will be offering an alternative to Paypal (Paymate) and I will start selling my wares in other places, but this needs to be enmasse to make any impact on feebay.

EBAY SUCKS (you dry)

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extra-keen — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 22:39:15 GMT

Done - already on 3 other places plus my own website!!! Will stay here as well, but not happy!!!

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hecklebird01 — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:49:20 GMT

I've been selling for 10 years on eBay. The total fees including PayPal once this new eBay fee structure is implemented will be over 20%. It's nothing but greed from a billion dollar company with Swiss bank accounts. I don't know of any other auction room that charges fees on postage and to be honest I'm over it and will be looking at other sites like Ruby Lane, Quicksales etc that have the volume of buyers and look after sellers. After all it's the sellers who provide eBay's massive profits, something eBay needs to remember.

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joann3751 — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:49:35 GMT

Yep....no more ebay for me either! One item on there right now and that's the very last!!!

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asporty — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:53:57 GMT

Exactly. My domestics average postage costs are $15 because I sell biggish items, and overseas postage costs are $35, some more, some less.
Scares me that I will now be paying $3-5 to ebay on just the postage costs. Bye bye sales is what I am thinking.

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diecastcarsvicki — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:12:40 GMT

I agree Quicksales.com.au is free from fees and i did & still do OK over there.

problem is the many glitches on the site makes working so frustrating. if the admins over there worked on fixing them ill return there in a heart beat. my listings expire here in two days & i wont be doing any new listings. with these new fees plus on top aussie post is due in the next few days to raise there postage its only going to slow if not stop people buying on line. i wouldn't mind the extra fvf if we all got to play on a equal playing feild but we get so flooded with chiness **bleep** (which you can buy most of it at the local $2.00 shop) pushes our listings so far away many of buyer have to spend hours searching to find it.

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billexploited — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 01:32:21 GMT

I've started selling on quicksales but I doesn't have enough market penetration its a David vs Goliath situation. Given ebay's recent postage fee fisaco it may encourge users to jump aboard.

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sewells_of_victoria — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 02:19:22 GMT

I also listed one item on Quicksales just to see how it compares. Unfortunately have only had one click/view since Friday in comparison to ebay where I would have had at least 1 view within 5 mins of listing. Going to leave the listing up there and see how it goes as ebay has also been slow for me this weekend. I am a small seller and sell low value items so don't want to offer free postage on everything as I like to offer combined postage. Postage doubles the price of an item if not combined. It is also bad timing with Postage costs going up in April and then this new ebay charge in May. It is no good the sellers moving to another auction site if the buyers don't move with them and since the only communication you have with them (outside of ebay) is when sending their goods......

Ah well moan over, have a good weekend everyone

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Anonymous — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 09:36:21 GMT

I am moving to Quicksales too - this commission on postage will be the death of my small business (which I adore doing).

All Ebay cares about is making money. Profits for 2013 where $2.86 billion.

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davewil1964 — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 10:33:08 GMT

I have 1300 listings on QS and 1000 here. Unfortunately my QS sales, at a lower price to allow for the lack of fees, over the last 12 months are 10. Versus about 600 here, for more.

I am happy for other sellers to list on QS, but be aware that the traffic there is a lot less than here. And we need buyers more than sellers, so bring your buyers.

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knewdoors — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 03:47:28 GMT

unbelievably

grubby cash greedy move by ebay

they want their fingers in every pie...

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4myson2003 — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 04:11:31 GMT

they want to eat it too

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knewdoors — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 04:26:00 GMT

told ebay that it was a grubby cash grab..they told me

this

"These fees have actually been checked based on the needs in the maintenance of the site which is why we had this increase as well"

what about maintaining their sellers..

having a serious "Metallica time to stop holding hands and stand alone" moment aka Some Kind of Monster! and they tell the group shrink time to go....maybe it's time to set up own website and stick the fingers up at ebay..

understand how prices go up but this latest fee gauge sucks..

what a joke eaby is when it comes to fees..

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tausara2009 — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 05:49:44 GMT

Thanks for your ire...I am a buyer looking to sell, and take offense at paying for something which I don't benefit from...don't mind them taking a commission on what I sell, but I don't see how with postage when that money is for exactly that...and depending on the particular item free postage is not feasible...a packet of seeds, i'd say free postage...but other bulky items start at $7.20 for up to 500gm...I am not going to outlay that...and those who do offer free postage, factor it into the asking price in a similar listing so what is the point...Australia Post does pretty well consideraing snail mail has reduced but online sales have increased...anyway I am having seconds thoughts selling on Ebay...I am sure I'll be up for more fees...paypal and so on, but getting back it is the principle I'll be getting less for my product because of the extra charge incurred through the mechanism of postage... MOST UNFAIR!

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tausara2009 — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 05:56:51 GMT

PS.I have never heard of Quick Sales or Ruby Lane...so thanks...I suppose that is because when you google only EBay comes up along with Etsy.

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duck---dodgers — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 06:15:57 GMT

I had a customer in Singapore who wanted four items totaling $20, postage was $38 AP, ebay's cut on postage $3.80 and paypal charges on top, He wanted to go ahead with the sale, I told him the postage component of the sale was ridiculous and talked him out of it.

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onleme — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 08:36:35 GMT

Thanks for the heads up I am going to give quicksales a go.

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harley_babes_hoard — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 10:37:19 GMT

why do people drag up 9 months old threads?????

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i-love-my-sheep — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 11:15:41 GMT

@harley_babes_hoard wrote:
why do people drag up 9 months old threads?????

At least it's not as bad as the ones that drag up 2yo threads!

I find it interesting that most of the people above who said they weren't listing here any more 9 months ago have items listed. Obviously Slow Sales was too slow for them.

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carouselfetish — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:49:19 GMT

Thank you for posting alternative sites to me.

I've been buying from many many eBay sellers and the postage commission sickens me!! I've been posting about it and complaining about it to eBay. The postage calculator on this site always gets the postage way too high; then the poor seller has to refund to me. But they don't get a refund on that extra commission from eBay. It makes me furious!! It's unfair practice. The ACCC should act if the issue is presented to them by enough sellers.

But thanks for the alternatives, as you're right, the postage is way too high. Couriers are far better, and getting more competitive all the time. To heck with eBay!