Is anyone else finding the final value fees ridiculous on ebay! I'm moving to gumtree...

[eol-products]

I feel the fees are not that bad for most items when you consider you would get much less for the same item at a garage sale or market. Paypal fees and postage costs I find to be the most coslty.

[offroad7400]

Across the 'Ditch' there is no local eBay site.  Their online trading site charges nothing to list and only 7.9% FVF.  Interesting to see they have an Australian domain name registered for their site and with 15% GST - their platform could be migrated to Australia.  Long term plans hopefully and some competition would be welcomed.  (I wonder if this post will be deleted ?)

[uneek_inc]

None of you twits have any clue about proper business strategy. And If you think you have half a clue then ask yourself why reawl businesses such as Apple or Samsung don’t sell on eBay or gumtree etc blah blah. Fees are just one of the many reasons along side defaming your brand as cheap **bleep**. After many years in e-commerce, eBay has lost me many years ago as a seller and buyer. eBay defies the hard work practices that many local businesses do to try survive against cheap ass people competing. Do the hard yards and learn the rhythm on your own two legs, whilst buying and support your locals even if it means paying a little more. Everyone should take a lesson from this and not sell nor buy on eBay purely because the only long term winner is them.

[digital*ghost]

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@uneek_inc wrote:
ask yourself why reawl businesses such as Apple or Samsung don’t sell on eBay 

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Uhhhh...

A) Apple have had an official store on eBay

B) Samsung do sell on eBay - want a link to their store? 

Signed, a twit who knows nothing about busines but makes a pretty good living on eBay, anyway. 

[lyndal1838]

Well said Digi.....but you sell yourself short.

Why do all these silly posts originate from first time posters on the boards?

[lm-entertainment]

if that attitude is indicative of your business practices.. i'd be steering clear of "uneek inc." 

[digital*ghost]

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

Why do all these silly posts originate from first time posters on the boards?

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SO-SARCS

Sudden Onset Self-Aggrandising & Condescending Rant Syndrome (too late for me to think up a better name / acronym lol)

Long term posters can somtimes be afflicted, but the first time is always usually the worst time. 

[tazzieterror]

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@digital*ghost wrote:

SO-SARCS

Sudden Onset Self-Aggrandising & Condescending Rant Syndrome (too late for me to think up a better name / acronym lol)

Long term posters can somtimes be afflicted, but the first time is always usually the worst time. 

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DG, why so quick to judge? That's just the kind of overconfidence and shortsightedness in business that leads to real opportunities being missed!! Don't be a half-clued non-rhythmic bipedal, defied of all hard work against the cheap-ass! Too many of them already! Think long-term, take thy lesson, and support thy local, for the path to defamed is wide. Heed the lesson of the untwitted.

Spoiler

Look, I don't want everyone rushing in on this, so am hiding this here. I've found a uneek opportunity...but only for the right people.

Take a look and then tell me those revenue & profit figures don't excite you. I saw them and thought, "finally, some proper business strategy from someone uneekly qualified".

[cezm]

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

Well said Digi.....but you sell yourself short.

Why do all these silly posts originate from first time posters on the boards?

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and first time posters who, apparently, neither buy nor sell here!

[davewil1964]

It's obviously a good business model - profit is 50% higher than revenue.

That means they are paid to get rid of somebody else's stock or the figures aren't exactly accurate.