Fast becoming NOT worth The Effort

[queenslander]

Just had last Months Fees In over 17% for selling and of course the POSTAGE Fee Ripoff.

SMALL Sellers are being Hammered by Ebay disgusting.

Fees as a percentage of your sales

This month's eBay sales and fees

Total monthly sales AU $49.70     Total monthly fees 17.83% Based on your monthly fees and credits totaling AU $8.86, your fees as percentage of your sales is 17.83%

[heihachi_73]

This was a boxed, complete, original Mega Drive game (the box is roughly 3/4 the size of a VHS video tape and the same depth) and is worth (slightly) more than $1. Since it's as wide/thick as a video, it is way too wide to be classified as a large letter, or else it would be $2.10 to post such a game - so it's $7.45 Parcel Post and I get to eat the cost of the bubble mailer or mailing box (depending on the game). eBay also suggests I go one step further and offer Fast-N-Free on every item, what a joke! Parcel Post is also the reason why I don't sell VHS videos on eBay.

Actually, I think the "copyright violation" may have been due to me mentioning in the description that it only works when connected to a region-free adaptor cartridge (Mega Key, a device similar in function to a mod chip), but not when connected directly to the console. Said adaptor was not for sale, and the Mega Key is NOT a cloning/copying device. Besides, I'm sure Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf isn't that type of game which is so sought after that China has been making millions of bootleg copies of the game for two decades, but I could be wrong...

If eBay wants to ban listings containing information about region-free devices, they should start banning every single device capable of reading media not intended for the Australian market (even if it is dual-region or region-free, e.g. region 2/4 DVDs, or European/UK PAL region games not released in Australia etc.). Now you will have a walled garden with about 5% of the total movies, music, games, computer software and electronics ever made.

The only item worth $1 on my listings is a loose instruction manual for a PS2 game, which is sent inside a DVD case in a bubble mailer. I have every reason to charge $2.50 postage for that (even if it's only $1.40 at the post office counter, the bubble mailer still costs money - even if they are up to $1 each at Officeworks - since Australia Post's 151x229 bubble mailers don't fit DVDs by literally a millimetre or two, and mailing/tough bags are just asking for the DVD case to be destroyed in transit). Did I mention they also get a free DVD cover? Albeit a second hand one (unless I happen to have some new ones lying around).

On a side note, if eBay was Christian, wouldn't it go completely offline every Sunday and for the entire Easter/Christmas periods? 🙂

[i-love-my-sheep]

I had a listing taken down last year because I used the name Holden Commodore in the title. They were replacement buttons for a Commodore car key, but weren't genuine. We'd sold the car, so didn't need them any more. I still want to know how I was supposed to say what they were for without actually mentioning the model of car they were for. As it turned out, when I came on here to have a whinge, one of the forum members ended up buying them from me OFF eBay!!

I struggle sometimes with some items being a p00fteenth too thick for a bubble bag, so they have to go parcel post. It might only be 2 or 3mm, but it's enough to get pinged on. I feel bad for the buyer when said item weighs less than 50g. Nothing I can do about it though. I suppose if they buy it, they're happy to pay the postage for it. Even the lady at the PO asks "are you sure this can't go large letter, it's only 45g?". Nope, it won't fit through the letter gauge without dragging it through.

[dylan11235813]

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@i-love-my-sheep wrote:

I had a listing taken down last year because I used the name Holden Commodore in the title. They were replacement buttons for a Commodore car key, but weren't genuine. We'd sold the car, so didn't need them any more. I still want to know how I was supposed to say what they were for without actually mentioning the model of car they were for. As it turned out, when I came on here to have a whinge, one of the forum members ended up buying them from me OFF eBay!!

I struggle sometimes with some items being a p00fteenth too thick for a bubble bag, so they have to go parcel post. It might only be 2 or 3mm, but it's enough to get pinged on. I feel bad for the buyer when said item weighs less than 50g. Nothing I can do about it though. I suppose if they buy it, they're happy to pay the postage for it. Even the lady at the PO asks "are you sure this can't go large letter, it's only 45g?". Nope, it won't fit through the letter gauge without dragging it through.

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