EBAY RIP OFF ON POSTAGE COMMISSION

[tweed_heads_gold_coast_mobile_computer_repairs]

I have 5 ebay selling accounts and pay ebay handsomely every month when monthly invoices roll around.

This latest B/S is a joke and will simply mean the buyers are going to pay more. When buyers pay more, they buy less.

I have already noticed stand alone web sites are selling products cheaper than a lot of items on ebay, because they are not coughing up more than 10% of the sale price in fees, a turn around from a few years ago.

I'm hoping this rip off move motivates a number of sellers to make the move to Quicksales.com.au and raise its profile.

They charge 0% on sales- that 0% totally free and are a subsidiary of the 2.3 billion dollar carsales.com.au. so it's not like

they are ameteurs or new to selling platforms.

Ebay are way to big for their boots and it seems that we just keep taking the **bleep** they dish out to the very people that got them to where they are.

FEEBAY do not pay for my packaging materials, they don't wrap my parcels, they don't book couriers and they don't deal with my customers that have freight/ shipping issues when a parcel is late or lost, so why the hell should they be getting 10% of the postage cost. Can I refer inquiring customers to ebay if they have a freight issue, even if it's only 10% of the customers?

So they will now be double dipping when they also charge the 2.4% on item price AND postage when a customer pays via paypal which is 99% of them + 30 cents per transaction.

Who gives a stuff about the Auspost discount - I don't use them because the prices are way too high compared to couriers.

I paid a courier $53 dollars to send a heavy parcel to WA last week, the Auspost quote was $91. How does a 10% on postage help me? The joke being of course that Auspost will deliver items that have come from overseas for $1 as per the international postal agreement.

I may be complaining like an ass but I will be offering an alternative to Paypal (Paymate) and I will start selling my wares in other places, but this needs to be enmasse to make any impact on feebay.

EBAY SUCKS (you dry)

[daydreams_12]

@carouselfetish

VERY OLD THREAD.,

The purpose of dragging it up is?

[lyndal1838]

To whinge about the ebay commission on postage.....and he is not even a seller!!!

[davewil1964]

And to claim that couriers are better and cheaper. Not noting (or possibly realising) that the postage method is up to the individual seller, not eBay. Or that couriers are not necessarily the best option for a lot of buyers.

[yo-g-dog]

Ive just taken down my Items for sale as Im sick of these ridiculous charges by eBay. They are sucking sellers dry for the pleasure of the share holders. I just sold a $990 item for $685 to move it from stock. I was then hit with a $74.60 fee and a $15.70 shipping fee as this was a large parcel going overseas add to this the $30.18 foi PayPal transaction and I'm down $120.48 on one item or 17.6%. Nothing but a pack of blood sucking sharks. Done my last sale on ebay. Good luck all. 

[davewil1964]

I am happy for you. Was there any point in dragging up a four and a half year old thread? Except, maybe, to highlight the fact that these charges have been in place for that long.

I assume you realised that about that long ago, otherwise you should have been checking your fees a bit more closely.

[glycomacropeptide]

Quicksales.com.au is showing as SHUT DOWN !!!

That did not last long!!

[davewil1964]

QS was a possible option when this thread was current, many years ago. Yet another example of the futility of dragging up old threads.

QS shurt down in June. They started, as OZtion, before 2008.

They shut down because the parent only bought them for the backend software, to use on their other sites. They never advertised or promoted the joint, evgen though they sponsor TV shows and cars for their other arms. They stopped charging fees years ago and stopped maintaining QS around the same time.