7.9% fee far too high!

[aeltaarion]

This is a complaint to eBay.

I've just sold 2 things on eBay for the first time in a while, one of them went through without a hitch, the other one the buyer is trying to defraud me by masquerading as PayPal - trying to get me to send the item without paying.

Now on the auction that did go through fine for $575 AUD, PayPal took $14.10 and I thought okay that's probably just the eBay fees and the PayPal transaction no big deal there.

But then I was shocked to realize eBay charges 7.90% of the auction as a fee! - a further $44.24 AUD.

So my total amount was $575.00 AUD, subtract $58.34 AUD in PayPal & eBay fees and I was left with $516.66 AUD.

Now when I posted the auction I did realize there would be a fee but in the past when I've used eBay it was only ever $10 or $20 at most per auction, so to suddenly be slugged in total nearly $50 for this 1 auction alone is outrageous.

So on the other of the 2 auctions the guy who won was trying to con me into sending the item without paying - for this eBay charged me AU $37.60 which after 4 days I can go through a process of claiming it has not been paid and possibly get it credited back to me.

eBay is becoming a cesspool of fake buyers and there is not enough being done.

eBay forces sellers to accept PayPal who then if the buyer chooses to pay through is provided with your PayPal E-Mail address and this is how they get my/your address to masquerade as PayPal.

Given the large fees you guys are taking why don't you do more to stop this!?

For instance don't EVER provide buyers with my E-Mail address, force people to only communicate through eBay and if they win PayPal should provide the buyer with a 1 time use E-Mail address for payment for instance "259295732fdsa9e@paypal.com" which can only be used to accept the payment internally and route the payment to the actual sellers account, this would block 99.999% of the fraud on eBay if you insist on forcing sellers to accept PayPal.

It's not good enough that we give you guys such a large cut and you still let us get conned. Shouldn't happen.

[bluesox220]

thesoulyearns  -  Think  you should get your facts right before bagging Quicksales - the site  that makes these claims is Quibids not QUICKSALES - a completely different scenario  😉

[marian-48]

flashback_deals  You may need to put your glasses on and re watch the add you refer to as being Quicksales, I have seen their ad many times and NO reference is made to what you say.

Maybe you will find its a different site you refer to.

[marian-48]

Sorry the above reply was meant for thesoulyearns 

[marian-48]

it was grays online that was on TT - they've been around for ages and were
having a birthday bash sale thingy. Seems they didnt allow for the amount of
people interested and totally crashed their servers. like what did they expect
...  the possibility of a large TV for a dollar as well as heaps of other
designer stuff. Anyway basically it looks like nobody got anything,... they are
sorry will do it again in the future but now they have heaps of publicity. Seems
like a ploy to me

Copied above from the Quicksales forum ~ is this what you are on about?

[bluesox220]

We sure killed this thread Marian lol

Must know that we are right pmsl

[phorum_junkie*]

PJ, you may be satisfied with the limited business opportunities that eBay now affords,

Isn't that rather stating the obvious?

If I wasn't satisfied with ebay then I wouldn't use the site.

If the ebay business model changes then sellers have to adapt or look elsewhere for a platform to sell their goods.

[jen-the-smurf]

i wouldnt buy anything of quibids - I think you have to pay a fee before you can buy of the site. you can buy of eBay with no fee 😄

Grays is just a boring pathetic site

And the OP is whinging about 7.9%? They need to realise if they were a business, 7.9% as a casual seller is chicken feed considering business traders may have tax and GST and everything else to slap on top of it