10.9% selling fee on this site is daylight robbery.. I've removed my adverts. Will not use again

[*tippy*toes*]

Put an ad in the paper and see what it costs. I don't like paying fees like anyone else does, but my stuff sells on here. I make an enormous profit on my items, even after fees have been taken, so I really don't care. If you are selling stuff for cost price, more fool you.

People come in here banging on about Facebook, but my stuff doesn't sell on there. I don't sell clothes or no longer wanted household items. I sell a lot of fresh produce on Facebook, but what I sell on eBay doesn't get a single view.

I hope you don't think that eBay will care whether you sell again or not. They don't. You are less than one grain of sand on a beach to them. Way less than that even. You aren't even a tiny blip on their radar.

Don't slam the door on the way out! Seeya!

[eol-products]

I remember the good old days of classified adds before mobile phones came along. You got up early to check the for sale section, ring the seller then race off to check it out. You had no GPS back then just an old street directory and no easy way to call the seller if needed and on arrival your told I just sold it to this other guy not five minutes ago. 

[porcelain_dolls_by_me]

Rather than a simply dummy spit look at the overall picture.

For 10.9% eBay provide a shop front and "staff" to sell your goods.

If you had a physical shop front then your rent wold be at least 15%, misc overheads 10% and staff around 10%, so in the big picture you are getting a global sales channel very cheaply

[glenbankloel]

Sorry to hear that you are disappointed, but as many of the other replies have advised Ebays fees and charges are not exorbitant. If you sell via a public auction house, which is where your items would get very good price I think, you will pay a great deal more in % fees.

Of course no one wants to pay fees, (it's in our dna) but this is how companies exist, pay staff, expenses, designers, r & d, provide software to run our stores, etc etc....  and frankly we would rather see them handle all the back room "stuff" than doing it ourselves.

We just want to list and sell (hopefully). That is our aim in life on here.

The only fee that we really object to is their fee charged on postage, still can't understand why they get a cut of that.

However, we are small fish in a very big pond so just swimming along here as fast as we can.

We love the idea that we can sit at home and list, go to bed and wake up and find another sale overnight.

Your "doors" are always open, and exposure should you choose, can be world wide.

We wish you well, hope whatever decision you make is successful for you.

Good Luck

[shoppingbag*]

The simple solution is...if you don't like to pay for a service, then don't use it. This is still the best place to sell things, but if you think you can do better, then go for it. eBay won't care if you leave, neither will anyone else.

[south.coffee]

For every one less Aussie seller there is 100 Chinese ready to jump in.  Selling rates will only continue to go up until (if ever) a competitor comes along (New Zealand are you listening !).

Monopolies survive and thrive.

[joztamps]

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@glenbankloel wrote:

Sorry to hear that you are disappointed, but as many of the other replies have advised Ebays fees and charges are not exorbitant. If you sell via a public auction house, which is where your items would get very good price I think, you will pay a great deal more in % fees.

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I'll tell you why, as a long-time stamp buyer, and now seller, I think ebay is OK on fees.

In auctions by philatelic auction houses

- they charge the seller commission of between 10-20%

- in addition, they charge the buyer "buyer's commission" of between 20-30%

- they charge this buyer's commission even on the large proportion of lots actually owned by the auctioneer (sort of like Coles charging you $5 for some of Coles' potatos, then adding 20-30% commission on top for the privilege of buying from Coles)

- they never give a successful buyer any details of unsuccessful bids, so there is no safeguard against shill bidding or, indeed, any evidence supplied that there were actually any lower bids at all

- they generally hold the seller's money for sold lots, and their unsold lots, for 3 months or more after receiving payment from the buyer

- if, as happens not unfrequently, they go broke, then the receivers for the bank (or other lender) take everything in the auctioneer's possession or physical control, including any money paid by the buyer and not already passed on to the seller, any lots paid for by buyers but not yet sent to them and (the crowning insult) any unsold lots not yet returned to the seller, as well as lots consigned by sellers but not yet auctioned; sometimes, out of the goodness of their frozen little hearts, the receivers will return or send their owned/paid for goods to seller or buyer if they pay for them again, with a "small" "administration charge" on top.

I understand that most major arts/antiques auctioneers work on a similar basis.

So overall I think ebay fees and protections are pretty good.

However, don't get me started on paypal's bloody iniquitous 30c flagfall.

[supermussolinibros]

just wait in six months time when your buyers do some sort of fake paypal claim and you lose your item and money - you will know all about daylight robbery - oh and your fees will not be refunded

[11dustyattic]

Unbelievable. Who do you think you are? You seem to have a high opinion of yourself. Who are you to judge whether someone will be missed? Rude, you need to get over yourself!

In response to your grand statement that physical auctions charge more. Really? No they don't because there are no fees (or time + packaging costs + fuel + car expensez + time) for postage, nor fees for paypal, so the cost usually always comes out cheaper

[davewil1964]

No fees at a physical auction? Or time or fuel? Auction houses come and get your goods for free?

Get real.