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ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

vertico_au — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 06:14:10 GMT

Hi guys,

eBay plus whats the product criteria for ebay to cover the shipping cost for the item?

I recently signed up to the ebay plus to make a purchase because of the following

Product 1

Seller 1 = $25

Seller 2 = $17 + 9.95 shipping

If i signed up to ebay plus "Seller 2", shipping is free. This means eBay paid for the shipping. The Buyer saves and the seller can sell it cheaper making it more attractive to ebay plus members.

Now i tried this on multiple products on my listing and it doesnt work

Offer 1
Item Price (incudes free shipping), Shipping cost is incoperated into the item price

Offer 2

Item Price excluding shipping, Shipping cost is seperate to the item

When I provide "offer 1" = eBay plus badge appears

When i provide "offer 2" = eBay plus badge is removed and the buyer still has to pay for shipping

What this testing shows is that the eBay plus is just a glorified ebay top rated seller. However, from the purchase I made above I was enticed into signing up and save on the shipping which means ebay does actually cover the cost of shipping on certain items.
There must be some criteria that eBay will cover the shipping cost for certain items. Does anyone out there know?

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

brerrabbit585 — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 07:29:20 GMT

What do you mean 'when I provide"? Do you mean when you buy, when you put it in your cart, or something else?

You said you signed up to it to make a purchase but further down you talk about "my listing" as though you're a seller.

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

vertico_au — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 07:41:55 GMT

As a buyer i signed up to make the purchase to get the shipping cost omitted when you have a eBay Plus account.
As a seller I tested the eBay Plus on my listing.

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

brerrabbit585 — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 08:17:45 GMT

Lots of sellers do have plus showing on their listings with postage. In another thread either yesterday or today I think someone said they seem to put it on smaller items that have separate postage, but I wouldn't trust that to be true and would have to check it out for myself.

I did check one seller's listings last week and they had it on listings with separate postage but the majority of their listings had free postage (maybe around 90%, at least of the ones I looked at, which wasn't all that many). Maybe if most of a seller's listings have free postage they'll put it on a few of their 'separate postage' listings as well.

Only time will tell and you might just have to keep an eye on it for a while.

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

hurricanekick2theface — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:08:18 GMT

i'm pretty disgusted by ebay, as a veteran ebayer and bought and sold heaps of stuff of ebay i have not seen any good changes or evolutions of ebay accept that. buyers no longer give negative feedback and you must have 'paypal' option. Which is good because i've bought items never arrived and NO communication, gave the seller negative feedback and their revenge was to give ME a strike

ebay plus is total rip off of amazons 'amazon prime', if you're going to rip something off amazon do its "no time limited feedback" and you can alter feedback anytime you want, for amazon your profile will even remember purchaes you made YEARS ago, if you have problems their good customer service (through email) is super fast even from AMERICAS amazon, quick help. If you make a wrong purchase it can INSANTLY be recantered incase you purchased it by mistake.

eg. a seller sold me a severely scratched smart watch (gear2) i know description it said light scratches, but i assumed it was underneath the watch, I've still got child like eyes seeing the world too naively and think "nah no one would sell a watch with scratches ON the face of the watch"

they did, paypal is useless and i've only won one cases out of tons i've filed EVEN with pictures and and evidence, this 180day guarantee is B.S

it makes me fume and hope i can at least go back to a sale (old or not) and at least screw up their positive feedback rating, that sale no longer exists, you can't find the original feedback and alter it, you can't vote down the seller....absolution GARBAGE

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

lyndal1838 — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 05:38:04 GMT

While you cannot alter the original feedback you can add an followup comment at any time. I have seen it doen as long as 5 years after the original feedback was left.

If the original feedback has disappeared it means that ebay has probably removed the item/sale entirely.....the item could have been fake.

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

davewil1964 — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 08:47:59 GMT

I'm not sure what you having 'not as described' problems has to do with eBay Plus. That sounds more like a lack of knowledge about how to screw sellers.

As far as ~~recanting~~ reneging on a sale, it is a 2 stage process to buy, so the purchase can hardly be classified as accidental. The time to decide whether or nor you want something is BEFORE you buy. You are buying from individual sellers here, unlike a lot of Amazon purchases, which are from Amazon, which can better absorb buyers' games than small, private sellers.

As you expect eBay plus to be the equivalent to Amazon Prime, which TV station do you think they will subscribe you to?

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

swapwaregames — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:28:35 GMT

Its changed folks ebay have clamped down on sellers selling items in bulk, to stop sellers using the postage cost as their profit margin, and getting reimbursed by ebay and can still send stuff letter mail for $10 and make money, I had a feeling ebay were going to act because some sellers were actually selling under trade prices we buy it for. Some sellers were charging $17-$25 postage lol. I had to submit a invoice to ebay indicating how much logistics cost for me so it qualifies me for ebay plus, For powersellers to qualify for plus now have to provide proof of logistics and costs of sending an item. cheers 🙂

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

parachuter2006 — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 22:48:08 GMT

Sadly disappearing (negative) feedback is a common thing now.
Buyer protection also means seller protection as the seller makes the money for Ebay.
A scammer will not get any negative feedback once you got a refund, he just keeps going.
Even if you left feedback before the case was over it disappears and makes the seller look perfect by all means.
Mony, money, always funny, in a rich man's world....

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

kobr1215 — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 08:28:03 GMT

I'm dissolving this ebay plus it's a dam rip off a lot of sellers dont use it waste of time

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

lyndal1838 — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 09:49:50 GMT

Don't b;ame the sellers......they have no say in it. Ebay decides which listings will be eligible for it and put it on whether the seller wants it or not.

I decided not to use it as a buyer as soon as it was announced......I could not see any real benefit for me.

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

pickle_2007 — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 22:32:59 GMT

Horrible experience with eBay support charging me the yearly amount every month for eBay plus.
Additional to that I've gotten no value from it and sellers that don't have eBay plus often sell for cheaper and sellers that are part of eBay plus and use the 20% off codes often price jack their product 20% so you don't save anything.
It's cheaper to shop on Amazon since price jacking is so common

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

hellycat15 — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 21:18:21 GMT

I have had the exact same experience, I have a few sale items that have qualified with the postage added but most of them don't unless I have free postage. I have found it better to just offer postage discounts for mulitple purchases.

I have saved a little on postage when buying and got the subscription for half price or something but I don't think I will renew it unless they offer a better deal for selling. It doesn't seem to matter what I do on some listings, they don't qualify for Plus sellling

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

catmilko — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 05:45:22 GMT

It is a con for sure.

Im livid about it

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

imastawka — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:13:29 GMT

Not a con, but it is useless in a lot of respects.

Were you buying or selling?

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

brf.au.710fo57h — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 12:35:45 GMT

How do i cancel

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

brf.au.710fo57h — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 12:36:00 GMT

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

padi*0409 — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:15:21 GMT

@brf.au.710fo57h wrote:
How do i cancel

Click on the link below and scroll down the page to the cancellation link.

https://pages2.ebay.com.au/plus/faq

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

stick.it.good — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:31:31 GMT

the shipping has to be under a certain amount, i've found that it works under $11 for me

When i use an "auspost 500g prepaid bag". it always gets ebay plus added to my listings when the other criteria is met as well

Re: ebay plus works but mostly a scam?

brerrabbit585 — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 02:40:55 GMT

The items also have to be over a certain price if they have separate postage, otherwise they won't have plus on them. I'm pretty sure the magic figure is $15, so if your items are priced at less than that they won't have Plus applied to them unless they have free postage.