Current survey on third party warehousing / postage etc

[6508.froggy]

Just completed a survey on third party warehousing and postage point. 

Dare say this is in comparison to overseas and the GSP. Knew it would have to be looked at in Australia. 

You can imagine my responses mostly NO - NO and NO  - not interested. 

Lets hope it does not get off the ground and of course Ebay glorified what it could do for the seller.

[davewil1964]

It's called consultation.

Like governments/councils do.

And like governments/councils they ignore anything that doesn't agree with their preconcieved answer.

[springyzone]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

It's called consultation.

Like governments/councils do.

And like governments/councils they ignore anything that doesn't agree with their preconcieved answer.

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It's a bit off topic I guess, but this reminded me of a phone survey for Victorian public transport (trains) that i completed a few weeks back.

We had to rate statements from 1-5, with 1 being not satisfied, 5 very satisfied and I was asked whether I was satisfied with the amount of graffiti at my local station.

I said to the woman that it was poorly worded-would depend on whether I liked graffiti or not.

She couldn't see what I was getting at and got quite stroppy.

I was also told that the station I nominated as my 'home' station, where I would get on, was not popular and no one she had ever surveyed had picked it. Guess i flunked the survey.

There were about 4 other poorly worded questions about other aspects. How some of these companies get a clear vision from surveys is beyond me.

[porcelain_dolls_by_me]

Surveys are conducted on behalf of business' merely to validate a decision that has already been taken. 

[imastawka]

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@porcelain_dolls_by_me wrote:

Surveys are conducted on behalf of business' merely to validate a decision that has already been taken. 

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Dave already said that.

Good to see you're paying attention thouugh

[brerrabbit585]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

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@padi*0409 wrote:

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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

If it does arrive here, you can simply opt out.

Might mean more sales for those opting out if the USA GSP is anything to go by.

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Kopes if they run it the same way as the US and UK GSP then sellers will be opted in by default, and possibly have no idea they're signed up for it, with opting out then being not such a simple option for sellers.

One of my sellers in the US was opted in without his knowledge and suffered a large downturn in overseas sales (around 75%), until I alerted him to it and gave him the opt-out procedure.

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I don't sell OS. If I am opted in and some mug in Venezuela wants to pay $30+ for a $5 paperback, then they will be welcome. As I will only have to post to a depot in Australia it will be a domestic sale from my perspective. Something the critics of the GSP seem to conveniently ignore.

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But won't you still have to pay ebay and paypal fees on the extra postage, and the extra 1% in paypal fees because it's an overseas payment, and possibly the extra cross currency fees?

[digital*ghost]

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@brerrabbit585 wrote:

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I don't sell OS. If I am opted in and some mug in Venezuela wants to pay $30+ for a $5 paperback, then they will be welcome. As I will only have to post to a depot in Australia it will be a domestic sale from my perspective. Something the critics of the GSP seem to conveniently ignore.

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But won't you still have to pay ebay and paypal fees on the extra postage, and the extra 1% in paypal fees because it's an overseas payment, and possibly the extra cross currency fees?

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I'm guessing FVF will only apply to the sale amount the seller receives, which would be item price + domestic postage, as they don't see / receive the GSP portion of the sale and the payment the buyer makes is split in two.

eBay UK do the same over there as here (charge FVF on whatever the buyer pays, as opposed to only on the domestic option even if the buyer is OS and pays a lot more like they do in the US), and in the FAQs on the UK GSP info page, they do also state that for the purposes of FVF, it is identical to any other domestic sale, so I would expect that to apply here as well. 

It would cost more as an OS payment, but I suspect there are more people selling to overseas buyers than they realise, because it's very easy to simply provide an Australian address if a seller won't ship outside of Aus and buy anyway. 

I'm not sure if I'd opt in, it would probably solve some of the concerns I have about shipping OS on eBay specifically, but at the same time it would seem unfair as I do ship OS on other sites, via the most economical methods, which Pitney Bowes certainly wouldn't provide.