Attention Sellers GLOBAL SHIPPING IS A SCAM BY EBAY

[bikesstuff2015]

Sellers, if you want increase your sales dont use the global shipping program, , you dont see that the international customer is getting charged rediculous postage prices and not buying due to the rip off by EBAY who are scamming $millions daily

.Absolutely unacceptable monopolising money grab .

[countessalmirena]

Hello, bikesstuff2015,

• The GSP (Global Shipping Program) is already loathed by almost every buyer, and has been for many a year. Your words come late in the day... The GSP isn't new or recent, so you're saying only what many others have said. It isn't new information.
• If you search through the Buying board here, you will find many upon many a thread specifically discussing the GSP, and the consensus is that it's over-priced, slow, doesn't allow sellers to combine shipping, and occasionally results in items being confiscated without rhyme or reason. So... in other words... you're preaching to the choir.
• The sellers on THIS board are Australian sellers. The GSP isn't available to Australian sellers. There isn't any point in your warning Australian sellers about something that isn't available to them even if they wanted to use the GSP.
• The sellers who do use the GSP (mostly US sellers, but also some UK sellers) do so because it offers them protection against many of the pitfalls that can befall a seller sending items to international buyers. In other words, there are reasons why a seller might choose to use the GSP, even though it's got a bad rep in the eyes of buyers.
• Sometimes the ludicrous cost of postage for items where the GSP is offered is due to the seller not properly setting up the dimensions of the item in his/her listing. I understand that if a seller does include the correct dimensions and weight information, the GSP cost comes down considerably. It's only when the information's not entered that the GSP cost is calculated without reference to the actual dimensions and/or weight and ends up being completely ridiculously expensive.
• eBay describe the shipping method as "priority", but in actual fact the shipping method used is Economy. If buyers understand that they are not going to get their items quickly, that it is in fact not a priority delivery method, and that they should expect the delivery to take at least 3 weeks, it can help them to avoid that feeling of anxiety as they wait... and wait... and wait.
• Some of the sellers on whose listings the GSP is offered don't even have a clue that they are - by default - opted in to the GSP. For some listings, this offers an opportunity to Australian buyers to be able to buy items that would otherwise not be offered internationally at all, since as far as the seller is concerned, s/he is simply posting domestically, and it's Pitney Bowes (in the US0 who do the repacking and preparation for international shipping.
• Some sellers don't mind selling internationally, and don't realise how ludicrous the GSP cost is, and possibly don't know that they're automatically opted in to the GSP... and they may be amenable to relisting with another postage method (USPS for instance). It can't hurt to ask.

I personally would not buy from a seller who was sending only via GSP. I have other alternatives.

[kopenhagen5]

You are paying a monthly sub for the store without selling anything.

Better to close it and open it when you want to sell.

[lyndal1838]

You are an Australian seller posting on the Australian boards.

Why are you wasting your time warning us about a shipping service that we cannot access.....it is only available to sellers in the USA and the UK.

[love_of_cars]

I'd say the thread starter didn't know that, or wanted to have a go at eBay anyway.

[4channel]

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@love_of_cars wrote:

I'd say the thread starter didn't know that, or wanted to have a go at eBay anyway.

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Hi love_of_cars, I think the OP was trying to warn us of is that GSP could be aplied to Australian sellers. Sooner or later a version that would happen. 

[imastawka]

Sheesh!  Now it seems you're on a search to find them all.

Spoiler

 

[4channel]

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@imastawka wrote:

Sheesh!  Now it seems you're on a search to find them all.

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 No, I just had a look here and decided to reply to the thread as people weren't aware of the intent of the OP.

And I know you have a problem with free people excercising free speech but  that's something you'll have to learn to live with. You'll be fine if you get that.

[lyndal1838]

So what makes you such an expert on the meaning of the OP?   It has never been explained.

[4channel]

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

So what makes you such an expert on the meaning of the OP?   It has never been explained.

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Well, it may be a good way to have it explained. It could very well be a warning to Australian sellers that when the GSP is applied here, they could be losing customers if they allow themselves to be pushed into using it. I have already had international sellers tell me that when they went back to using UK Post etc, their sales went up. If OP is warning Aust sellers to not use GSP then it's doing them a favour.

OP also posted this in the "Selling" section.