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Good Bye Ebay

judew79 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:33:23 GMT

I am a single mum that tries to make a small amount of money selling things on ebay... but after my statment from October, I no longer find it beneficial for me.

My sales amount was $242 and then I had to pay 17.79% (43.50) in ebay fees..... gone are the days where we could make a decent sale and walk away with a good profit. All the charges for selling and the stupid pathetic money grabbing fees for postage, its not like it cheep to post items as it is, but now we are being charged for charging for postage.

Get real Ebay... I have been selling and buying for years, but you have lost me..... instead of sending my bloody surveys as a buyer, have the guts to send me one as a seller, actually send one to all sellers and give us a right to tell you what we think!!

Ebay, you are nothing but a money hungry, penny pinching piece of **bleep**.. Good Bye!

Re: Good Bye Ebay

kane1417 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:36:40 GMT

Well said !, I left this week as well (see posting - Power seller divorces ebay).

Can the last seller please turn the lights out before leaving,thank you !!

Re: Good Bye Ebay

judew79 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:39:34 GMT

I read that one..lol

I am currently joining up with an Australian auction site, hopefully I will do ok.... Its free listings and Quick sales 🙂

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kzb888 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:58:12 GMT

May I ask why your fees were so high?

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bettyboopsadaisy — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:59:01 GMT

I am almost exclusively a seller on ebay (for the last nearly 8 years) and I whole-heartedly agree with everything you are saying ! I am still selling but like all of us, have seen the sellers' position on this site eroded and eroded away until we are all fearful of some punitive measure or other that ebay has put in place, affecting us (often unfairly) not to mention the chipping away at our meagre profits by the 'big greedy giant'.

I DO often get sent surveys as a seller, and have got to the point where I just delete them (more often than not) because I don't believe, for all their fine words, ebay is in the least interested in sellers' views or issues. The surveys are merely a way of trying to convince us that they are interested and care (BS!!!!)

I do believe sellers are leaving ebay in droves now. I'm not saying that this is yet putting any sort of meaningful 'dent' in the seller base, as far as ebay is concerned. I think they might even be quite content to see small hobby sellers leaving and their new policies, many sellers believe, are aimed at getting rid of those very sellers. I've even noticed an increase in buyers leaving due to the rise in the cost of items on ebay (explained by the rise sellers have to cover in FVFs and charges on postage)

Good luck with your selling in the future, on whatever online site you choose !!

Re: Good Bye Ebay

judew79 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 01:12:33 GMT

wanted14 I have no idea why my fees are so high.... I dont have a shop, I use my 40 free listings and I dont over charge on postage.. yet I was charged a stupid amount.

If I werent being charged fees for postage I would most likely stay, but to pay 17% in fees, plus the paypal fees, it just work out.

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collect247 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 01:18:06 GMT

Ebay fees are 9.9% and PayPal are 2.4% + $0.30 so the most you should have paid is around 12.3% so I would be complaining as to why you were charged way more than you should have been.

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cmcoins2000 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 01:20:27 GMT

@collective05 wrote:
Ebay fees are 9.9% and PayPal are 2.4% + $0.30 so the most you should have paid is around 12.3% so I would be complaining as to why you were charged way more than you should have been.

They are probably using the same method of figuring for these fees as they are using for the big guys feedback.

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diecastcorner2014 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 01:28:16 GMT

last one to leave please swich off the lights

the high fees just dont match the market ebay has over priced there worth as a selling platform.

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judew79 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 01:38:30 GMT

I am talking to them now and apparently the can justify the 17.79% in fees.... seriously where the hell did that come from?

Good bye ebay.. you can be shoved where the sun doesnt shine!

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collect247 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 01:40:17 GMT

All I can think of is that you may have listed in more than one catergory or have a sub title, these would add an additional fee?

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judew79 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 01:45:02 GMT

No nothing at all. They are trying to say "9.9% is the percentage of Final value Fee. However Total monthly Fess may also contain other fees like insertion fees"

However I only ever use my 40 free insertion or the 100 free...

I dont have a sub heading, I dont sell the same thing in two categories.. I am very perticular that I wont be stung with extra fees.

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collect247 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 01:48:19 GMT

Well then as you only use free listings ebay needs to recalculate the fees as you have been ripped off

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judew79 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 01:53:31 GMT

nope not getting any answers, instead I am being handballed. The only place I am going to is the ombudsman and another auction site.

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cq_tech — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:00:24 GMT

I'm not surprised the OP's fees are so high. I've checked her sold listings and there are an awful lot of items that sold for $2, $4, & $5 with postage charges of between $9 - $13 so with the FVF on postage and the 30c Paypal flag-fall, of course the fees expressed as a percentage of income after expenditure are going to be considerably higher than normal. On a $2 item with $9 postage, the OP is making a nett 'profit' of less than 35 cents, and that's without even taking the item's cost price into consideration.

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jensmanchester-australia — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:07:35 GMT

Check your account details as all the fees you have been charged will be itemised.

Based on the percentage you have been charged you are being charged a $1.50 listing fee plus the FVF's.

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harley_babes_hoard — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:09:33 GMT

@judew79 wrote:
I read that one..lol

I am currently joining up with an Australian auction site, hopefully I will do ok.... Its free listings and Quick sales 🙂

good luck with that.....ebay sales are better than Nosales

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judew79 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:26:39 GMT

They dont like it when you show them the maths, I was hung up on: Here is the maths.... 9.9% of 243 is $24.07

Yet I was charged $43 in fees.

I use the free insertion, I don't use subtitles or anything else that will incure any additional charges, I try and keep the fees as low as possible. Yet they can not give me an answers as to why I had to pay nearly $20 more.

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pennyforum14 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:41:00 GMT

@judew79 wrote:
They dont like it when you show them the maths, I was hung up on: Here is the maths.... 9.9% of 243 is $24.07
Yet I was charged $43 in fees.

I use the free insertion, I don't use subtitles or anything else that will incure any additional charges, I try and keep the fees as low as possible. Yet they can not give me an answers as to why I had to pay nearly $20 more.

Jude, 9.9% of 243 may be 24.07, but does that 243 include the amount you charged the buyer for postage, or is it just your total raw sales amount? FVF is charged at 9.9% on BOTH. So add your postage charges, then caculate the 9.9% on the total and you are probably coming close to what you were charged.

Another thing to cosider is whether you used Ebay postage lbels at all, these are charrged to your account as well.

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jensmanchester-australia — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:21:52 GMT

You need to have a look at your itemised account which is available under the Account Tab in My eBay. Once you have checked out what you have actually been charged for you can then give that information to Customer Service if you think you have been overcharged.