What beeps me off is EBAY charges on shipping

[glycomacropeptide]

No othe auction house will charge shipping fee on top of the shipping charges.

Shipping is not part of the final sale price!

Buyers complain about excessive shipping charges as it is.

EBAY is digging its way deeper into becomming the obsolete Trading Post  - Anyone remember that?

The problem is : Lack of competition. If you run a monopoly you can charge whatever you want. and bump up the prices using any dump excuse.

Gumtree is owned by ebay : for those who did not know that!

Check this one out. This is ebay version in Europe. "Allegro"

The fees are explained in Polish I think but you can see the figures.

Fees are Much much lower than EBAY. !!!!!!

http://pomoc.allegro.pl/artykul/25229/cennik-ile-kosztuje-korzystanie-z-allegro

Ebay , you just want to charge same fees as any auction house?

Than get a warehouse, employ poeple to handle the goods in and out, hire professional auctioneers, include all the overheads that auction houses have to deal with and than you can charge fees of 10-20%..  However still no fees on top of shipping charges, as the shipping in auction houses are arranged by the buyer, not the auction house..

EBAY  STOP DOUBLE DIPPING!!! 

Totally unaustralian ,,  But you are not Australian.. USA rather.

Ohh well... Than means you can screw the world and get away with it..  

[thecatspjs]

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@i-love-my-sheep wrote:

Having a life has nothing to do with it. I have a life, a very good life. I also work full time. I wasn't buying or selling on eBay at the start of the year, yet I got multiple emails from eBay alerting sellers to the changes. Most people would have checked their email at least once between January and May. When I did start buying and selling again, the messages were all over the site.

It's up to sellers to keep up with the policy changes if they are selling, not whinge and moan about them months after they've happened because they feel hard done by. An employee is expected to keep up with policy changes in their regular job, it's no different here.

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Most people don't know about the changes to eBay.  Accept it.

[davewil1964]

If a member is selling on eBay, no matter how intermittently, surely it is incumbent on said member to apprise themselves of the current T&Cs? As you undoubtedly do.

Nothing to do with your definition of a life. It is prudent business practice. Which every seller, regardless of their possession of a 'life' or of their selling frequency, should use.

[cherry*135]

When you list an item, at the end, doesn't it tell you that FVF are payable on the total sale cost, item and shipping?

Have to read the fine print.

[thecatspjs]

Many people are not business sellers.  Accept it.

[thecatspjs]

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@am*3 wrote:
When you list an item, at the end, doesn't it tell you that FVF are payable on the total sale cost, item and shipping?

Have to read the fine print.

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No it doesn't always. 

For example, if you relist an item it tells you ONLY the listing cost - not the FVF - including or not including FVF for post.

[cherry*135]

Below is what it says. I copied this just now when I revised an item. It is shown when you first list an item. The text Final value fee is a link in blue which opens to this - http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/sell/fees.html

"If your item sells, you will be charged a final value fee - (link opens in a new window or tab) based on the total cost to the buyer, including postage, handling and any other related costs."

If you don't bother to read that, under REVIEW FEES Total $x.xx and/or don't understand that before you submit a listing, then you can't complain 'you didn't know" later..

[thecatspjs]

Yes a link to the fees appears - but this of course is quite a different scenario than the total cost appearing in highly visible, transparent manner.

[cherry*135]

Most of the complaints on this subject are that the seller 'didn't know FVF applies to shipping now'. They are told it does apply, near the end of the listing.

All the relevant information is available.

[thecatspjs]

Really ... Most complaints ...

[digital*ghost]

Ummm, just to point out...

The OP mentions nothing about when they found out about the changes, it just complains about them. For what it's worth, I don't think there's a time limit on thinking something is wrong and/or complaining about it. 😛