@lane-ends wrote:
They take fvf fee on the shipping whichever way a seller lists, free post or post extra. So that point is not relevent apart from the fact that it is unethical to take a fee either way.. They are only prossesing a payment.. Which really is paypals department. so you are being charge a fund sprocessing fee by each of them.
Except that postage is (or at least, can be) a variable component, therefore so can the FVF, and the difference can be quite signififcant. (I know prices can be too, but they are currently nowhere near as flexible as P&H is on eBay).
If, for arguments sake, I included the cost of P&H in my prices, and my sales miraculously remained the same, eBay would nab around 5 x the amount of FVF on P&H than they do now, because at least half my orders have several items and I use a fixed, flat rate. I'd make more money, too (presuming that not only did my sales volume and value remain the same, but so did the number or multiple-item purchases), so the buyer is the one that would pay more for nothing in particular, other than improving bottom lines. (Obviously I'm just applying this to how I would need to implement it, i.e. 'postage included' - the free post model is perfectly suitable for a lot of businesses, but quite the opposite for others, especially now with FVF being charged on it).
