Ebay charging fees including postage

[bric-a-brac-online]

How does Ebay allowed to charge a final fees which include the postage - I would have thought that the postage cost was only the seller and Australia post - how do they get away with it - loophole in the system may be

[chameleon54]

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@*tippy*toes* wrote:

But, I have no plans to ever buy and sell. I just like hanging around forums for things I have absolutely no interest in. I also belong to a site that deals with pottery coffee mugs and power points.

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Just cleaning up some of the carp in the office when I found these. I just thought they might be of intrest to some of your power point fans....

[emredrum76]

Do you have any links to where the ACCC have said taxing a 3rd party transaction was legal?

[lyndal1838]

I doubt that you will get an answer from i-love-my-sheep...she has not posted on the boards since June 2015.

But if it were illegal you can bet someone would have taken ebay to court long before now.

[claireiwallace2011]

I’ve just been stung with my first eBay invoice. Never again. I didn’t realise that they were charging final value fees on postage as well as the cost to print out the label. Then there’s the PayPal fees. I never charged a buyer more than the actual postage costs. So it turns out it’s costung me $ every time to send something. Hardly worth it when you’re only selling a 1kg book for $5. Total sales in the month including postage paid by buyers was $632 and eBay slugged me with $228!!

[davewil1964]

There you go. Stop undercutting Pommie sellers. You don't have the economies of scale, or the sweetheart export postage they do.

FVF on postage has been around for about 4 or 5 years now, so it's hardly new.

[lyndal1838]

So how much of that $228 is the postage already paid by your buyers?

[davewil1964]

I'll hazard a guess at $162.

[colmankooler]

**bleep** THIS SITE. WHAT A **bleep**ING JOKE. HOW THE **bleep** CAN EBAY DIP INTO MY POSTAGE MONEY..I HOPE CLASS ACTION IS STARTED BECAUSE OF THIS. AFTER PAYPAL AND EBAY TAKE A CUT.MY PROFITE ON A SELL IS ABOUT 10%...GREAT

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@colmankooler wrote:

**bleep** THIS SITE. WHAT A **bleep**ING JOKE. HOW THE **bleep** CAN EBAY DIP INTO MY POSTAGE MONEY..I HOPE CLASS ACTION IS STARTED BECAUSE OF THIS. AFTER PAYPAL AND EBAY TAKE A CUT.MY PROFITE ON A SELL IS ABOUT 10%...GREAT

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I hear you man!

So please let me know when you start the class action. Many sellers would also be waiting for a go-getter like you to come along and initiate the class action you are proposing.  I see you as a person who doesn’t sit around waiting for others to act.

Please understand that my support of your class action would need to be in the form of “moral support” as I am not in a position to help out financially as my income these days is $0 per annum.

Go get em!

[imastawka]

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@colmankooler wrote:

**bleep** THIS SITE. WHAT A **bleep**ING JOKE. HOW THE **bleep** CAN EBAY DIP INTO MY POSTAGE MONEY..I HOPE CLASS ACTION IS STARTED BECAUSE OF THIS. AFTER PAYPAL AND EBAY TAKE A CUT.MY PROFITE ON A SELL IS ABOUT 10%...GREAT

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You relisted the same Reeboks 3 times.

Did you open unpaid item cases to get your fees back?

Cos that would have been a sizeable amount in fees.

All  Most sellers take fees into account and put up the list price.

10% profit is much better than 10% loss

And please don't shout.

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Slr sales - you are norti - but I like you