How can we compete

[littlemiddy]

Hi

How do we compete with a seller who sells at a loss, I purchased a pair of earrings to see how they package/post them, cost $1.99 aud, when the earrings arrived, the postage was $2.20 aud add ebay fees onto that your looking at maybe $2.50 aud so they losing $0.50 per sale, there is no way I can compete, and they have over 10,000 listings on ebay with 195k items sold, i checked their feedback history and most people buying the $1.99 earrings and not the more expensive to even out the so called sales. Ebay stated that they have other accounts with more expensive items to even out the sales......again how is this fair to the rest of us??

They litterly have a monopoly so why should I sell on ebay and is this happening with other items??

How can we compete with this????

[domino-710]

Well - that is interesting.

Perhaps littlemiddy kept the packaging - could be interesting to run the stamps by Aust Post.

Otherwise - we'll all have to buy buck 1.99 earrings for the stamps. lol

[littlemiddy]

yes I did keep the packaging they are these series of stamps

https://auspost.com.au/shop/product/roll-of-100x-1-20-stamps-50285?fm=recommendations:shop%20recentl...

[domino-710]

The article says December 2021 - the stamps with Native Animals are 2022 - I think.

OK back to the drawing board.

[littlemiddy]

do auspost change the quality of their stamps?

[domino-710]

In what way - paper - printing. ??

Have noticed they have those tiny triangles cut out - making the stamp difficult to remove from the backing.

No I don't think so - do the stamps look different to you ??

[littlemiddy]

i have 5 different stamps here, including ones i purchased from AP and others on mail I recieved, and the paper quality is definitely different between those and the "suspect ones"

this is a interesting read

https://www.glenstephens.com/snfebruary21.html

“Creating an unfair playing field”

“We will allege this man was forging stamps to create a financial advantage for himself,”  AFP Detective Superintendent David Berston said. “He was able to entice customers to his business and away from his competitors because the free postage made his products cheaper, creating an unfair playing field” he continued. “We also allege this conduct put his customers at risk of not receiving the goods they purchased in good faith, with Australia Post needing to intercept and hold hundreds of mail items that had counterfeit stamps. This crime also siphons money away from Australian taxpayers, because Australia Post is owned by the Commonwealth Government.”  Berston concluded. Approximately 680 mail items bearing these alleged fake stamps, valued at approximately $2,300 face value, were detected by the Australia Post mail Centre operations, but it is unknown how many items with forged stamps had been sent out in the past by Mr. Balcombe.  The crooks do not realise the genuine AP stamps have ‘’tagging’’ that is detected in the high-tech mail sorting equipment these days!

[domino-710]

Get yourself off to Aust Post with them then.

[cam-2793]

Wow! We all keep saying that there is " no such thing as free postage".

Turns out we were wrong!

Hope AFP and Oz post get better at catching the bustards responsible!

[gutterpunkz05]

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@domino-710 wrote:

Would that be 2,000 stamps per month. ??

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No  Dom,  they would be selling far closer to  10,000 items per month, than 1,000, and that is just on one account

[domino-710]

Just curious - what other accounts. ??

How do you know of other accounts. ??