Forced to Set Buy It Now Price 30% Above Auction Start Price

[waddingtonfirstaid]

I have a screenshot of eBay stopping me from relisting my items until I increase my Buy It Now Price to a set 30% above my normal auction start price. I have reported this to the ACCC. I feel like I am being blackmailed into collusion, predatory pricing and price fixing. My auction start price is already set as low as possible so now eBay is forcing me to rip off buyers by setting the Buy It Now price way above what I would normally charge. This needs to go on FB too. How many eBay sellers are now being forced to rip off their buyers??? I guess everyone doesn't bother with auctions any more? I guess eBay needs to lift their bottom line with everything sold at a premium retail type price? No announcement, no readily available information about this on their fee table. Something sure ain't right any more about this place, that I do know.

[digital*ghost]

PJ you must have been distraught when some unthinking seller reported eBay/Paypal about trying to make Paypal the only payment option.  Some thought that was within eBays right too

Not annoyed, just incredulous that people could actually think the ACCC had the authority to stop ebay making Paypal the only payment method if they so wished.

As it turned out the ACCC could indeed do nothing other than ask ebay nicely if they would at least allow another 3rd party payment method to be included, ebay of course agreed probably in the full knowledge that very few sellers and even fewer buyers would use a service that was both more expensive and carried less seller protection.

12 June 2008

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a draft notice proposing to revoke a notification* lodged by eBay International A.G. on 11 April 2008. Under the notification, eBay proposes to mandate the use of PayPal for almost all transactions on the eBay site.

http://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/accc-proposes-to-revoke-immunity-for-ebays-paypal-only-policy

From what I've read, eBay lodged a request for immunity from prosecution to bring in the PayPal only rule - why would they need that if it was actually ok? So what happened is eBay decided to comply with the ACCC request because not doing so would expose them to bigger problems.