on โ16-06-2018 08:16 AM
My question as a seller is that I currently have my postage separate.
I do not included postage in the cost of the item.
If a buyer who has an ebay plus subscription gets free postage who pays for the postage cost to the seller.
Does ebay pay the postage cost to the seller and if so how do they pay it.
i.e. If ebay covers the difference on postage cost for the seller does the seller get the money at time of sale or is it taken off their fees.
on โ16-06-2018 08:26 AM
From what I can gather ebay are only putting the ebay plus tag on items that already offer free postage.
If the buyer is already getting free postage on items without subscribing to the ebay plus program how are they actually benefiting other than getting fly buy points and free returns.
on โ16-06-2018 09:20 AM
We have listings with a postage charge but I note EBay have also tagged the item with "Free postage and returns with EBay Plus "
Will be interesting to see what happens when one of such items sells.
on โ16-06-2018 10:33 AM
There do not seem to be many buyers rushing to join up though.
I am buying less and less on ebay and certainly would not want to join up just in case I stop buying altogether
on โ16-06-2018 11:07 AM
As an eBay Plus member, you'll also receive exclusive buying offers from time to time, such as special deals, promotions and discount vouchers.
eBay Plus members also receive exclusive selling offers, such as free listing and final value fee discount offers.
on โ16-06-2018 11:19 AM
It only applies to non store sellers lol.
on โ16-06-2018 08:03 PM
I would be more concerned with who pays the return postage if they change their mind as per Ebay Plus conditions.
on โ17-06-2018 08:28 AM
@porcelain_dolls_by_me wrote:We have listings with a postage charge but I note EBay have also tagged the item with "Free postage and returns with EBay Plus "
Will be interesting to see what happens when one of such items sells.
I'm only guessing of course (because some ebay decisions defy logic) but you'd think surely if ebay add this tag without asking the seller first, then that is their decision & their responsibility to cough up for the postage component.
I presume the seller would still have to pay fees on the whole transaction-item plus postage costs-but ebay would have to deposit the postage cost itself into the seller's account or give them a credit for it?
As someone else said though, returns are the thing, although i imagine ebay will initially cough up for those too. But not, of course, if a buyer claims something is wrong with the item. Only for change of mind returns.
For me, the most interesting thing will be if some of the 'bad' buyers opt into the system. You know the sort of buyers I mean, the ones who habitually give bad feedback or get refunds from sellers.
If the ebayplus tag goes on clothes items, i can see some buyers getting items, wearing them a time or two, returning them because it's no hassles.
I wonder if ebay will put up with habitual claims if they & not the sellers are the ones paying out all the time.
on โ26-06-2018 07:45 AM - last edited on โ26-06-2018 12:47 PM by gewens
New buyer did not return item and file a dispute with credit card company and won in her favor.
This was a chargeback from Paypal that I lost and plus the item that a double thats $270.00 I lost or the buyer stoled from me..
Ebay closed this issue and Paypal also.
on โ26-06-2018 05:35 PM
How is this applicable to eBay Plus?
Besides, you didn't lose the item and the money, you lost the item and some fees.