The CURRENT Ebay recommended price A.I. tool, needs to be relegated to the recycle Bin ASAP! . It is SO INACCURATE, that it is affecting my sales! For example, I currently have a listing of 36 unopened, Coles Little superheroes cards, plus a collectable case (brand new) still inside of its original packaging. The A.I. generated recommended price, is saying I should sell this listing for (wait for it) $2.03 cents AUD!!! ( I cannot even buy a single box of matches from Foodland down the road, for that price!) Another listing is for a pack of vintage, still sealed deck of cards (all 57 of them) The recommended price for these is (wait for it) $5.04 cents (AUD) I have another listing for a wine aerator and a food vacuum sealing pack. (Both new) and the recommended price for these two items, according to Ebay is (wait for it) $178.00. (AUD) I actually googled the price for these two items online (brand new) and they both sell for around $40.00 through various (online) retailers. So, if you do some very basic math's, (with postage) you are looking around the $90.00 to $95.00 mark, (AUD) which falls far short of the $178.00, (AUD) that Ebay recommends I sell these two items for??? What amuses me (and make me angry at the same time) is that Ebay has no problem, creating endless fees (and the associated online software, that goes with collecting those fees (including, recently adding a reasonably complicated, sliding scale for the so called "buyer protection" fee for pro-seller accounts (cough-cough- not sure who this is protecting, but I am pretty sure it is NOT ME??) but cannot run the A.I. generated recommended pricing software, correctly. Neither can Ebay set up or create the correct software to collect the fee's necessary to be able to post overseas to the U.S. and E.U. countries USING EBAY GENERATED, POSTAGE LABELS. Personally, I think it is has nothing to do with NOT being able to set up and run the software, I think it is just "can't be bothered. Too hard and we may end up having to wear some of the cost ourselves. (OMG!!) Much easier to just keep taking extra fees from sellers. Well thanks for that Ebay (Australia) My sales have tanked and are currently sitting somewhere around barely happening, to not happening at all (I have one parcel to mail off this morning) from what should have" usually been a busy weekend, has gone virtually dead. Since the announcement that Ebay is no longer supporting Postage to E.U. listed countries (which make up a quarter of my customer base) plus adding buyer protection fees on a sliding scale for pro-sellers (who are in effect subsiding free sellers, another nail in the coffin for small/independent sellers, who cannot easily absorb additional costs) I am at the point where I am seriously considering, as to whether it is actually worth it, continuing to sell on Ebay.
