on 31-05-2014 08:33 AM
I dont know why i am still selling on ebay...
Example of one of my items i have listed....
Price of item $6.95
Postage $5.95 " trying to keep it low but the postage for the item will cost me $7.20" Due to australia postage rises
Listing fee $3.50
Then final value fee on top
My item becomes a give away at under $3.oo for me....
Now ebay want us to add free postage " Cost to me to selling my item and post it just over $4.00 without adding the final value fee and not adding the cost of my fuel to take the item to the post office
Why would i bother selling my item cheaper for me to throw it in my garbage bin....
Gumtree is looking good... it's free
on 04-06-2014 11:14 PM
Good luck with that.
Have you actually looked at your account to see what you have been charged for? It's a fair bet they are legitimate charges.
on 05-06-2014 12:14 AM
on 05-06-2014 06:52 AM
True in part that Quicksales is slow...however I make more sales there than I do on eBay these days.
Mainly because I can offer items 15% Lower than I can on eBay, and without all the eBay mumbo jumbo Policies grief.
The fact is eBay is slowly imploding due to excessive greed and arrogance towards both Buyers & Sellers.
They had the market in the palm of their hands, but instead of looking after the marketplace, they closed their hands and squeezed the living **bleep** out of it. And when things get worse, they create new and ever inventive ways to raise the fee's higher.
Anyway, I could no longer cop a loss of 15% to 20% on every item I sold on eBay so stopped selling. Gumtree I find a complete waste of time, so now use Quicksales and local classifieds and still do ok, not as great as the eBay days long since past, but do ok all the same.
Another good idea is to launch your own website and sell direct. It costs very little to do, but once you get the hang of it things get easy and Buyers using Google searches and alsike manage to find you. I still offer Paypal to buyers (for the moment, or until they jack-up their fee's) as its cheaper than having bank credit card vendor services.
I think its a case you just have to look further afield than eBay these days. Just like the bursting of the Dot Com bubble, eBay has burst (more like splattered) and doesn't know its dead but being only kept alive via life support system...which will eventually be switched off by US mum & dad shareholders.
on 05-06-2014 07:54 AM
We are about to give Quicksales a try too. Can't be much worse than we are getting on ebay at the moment. Dismal!
We are also soon to launch our own web site too.
We have been looking at eWay as a payment gateway for that. So we can accept credit card payments.
Seems their fees are about on par with PayPal.
Downside is you have to part with a lump sum fee up front to get started. Depending on the plan you want..
Of course its a big risk to find out if/not it works. So not sure yet whether we will go with them
on 05-06-2014 08:00 AM
@wyndy15 wrote:Yep pretty annoying isn't it!
Ebay offered all of my listing as from THEN had the audacity to send me a bill for the end of the month, in which case I HAVE been charged for every listing **bleep**??
Think I'll be going to the ombudsman
check your detailed invoice under your ACCOUNT tab
all your listings would have been fee free
you sold around $300 worth of stuff, your selling fees would have been around $30
on 05-06-2014 08:47 AM
Even if ebay what does it matter as long as it's free..
Gumtree is not alw3ays face to face... I have bought items interstate I always ask if they will post... Never a problem for me.
on 05-06-2014 08:49 AM
Yes i too get 40 free items But try to list more than 40 and your charged...... thats where gumtree comes in! FREE
on 05-06-2014 08:53 AM
I'm with you.... Ebay has gotten to gready even charges us on the postage. THATS A JOKE
It will be goodby to ebay for me too...
Gumtree is totally free... I have sold many items their.... people will post to you just have to ask them.....
on 05-06-2014 08:55 AM
sounds good to me thanks will be trying it....
on 05-06-2014 09:11 AM
Ebay greed i will be spreading this post all over the internet and especially facebook......