When the hell did ebay get so expensive ( more so greedy ) 9.9 per cent for doing very little.

[posse2006]

 How can ebay charge such a high fee for selling an item, there not an austion house with an auctioneer, we do all the hard work and

they get to reep the rewards. I will no longer be using ebay to sell anything as you get similar results from using GUMTREE which is practically free. Thanks for nothing ebay.

[*crikey*mate*]

so which flat fee should eBay use?

$26 per item? Might cut out a lot of low priced items.

$1 per item? Sounds great, but does this generate enough revenue for eBay?

Then there is the question of why someone who sells something for $1 loses their entire sale to fees (not even considering postage), or even at $5, he pays 1/5 (which is 20% in fees). How is that then fair if someone sells something for $300 and only has to pay $1 for the priveledge?

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@diamond-halo wrote:

so which flat fee should eBay use?

$26 per item? Might cut out a lot of low priced items.

$1 per item? Sounds great, but does this generate enough revenue for eBay?

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I'm guessing you were refering to gec2002 when you posed the questions as it was they that wrote " . . . . but that doesn't explain why a flat fee structure isn't used . . . . " 

I'm in favour of the flat rate % on final value with free insertion fees

[*crikey*mate*]

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@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:

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@diamond-halo wrote:

so which flat fee should eBay use?

$26 per item? Might cut out a lot of low priced items.

$1 per item? Sounds great, but does this generate enough revenue for eBay?

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I'm guessing you were refering to gec2002 when you posed the questions as it was they that wrote " . . . . but that doesn't explain why a flat fee structure isn't used . . . . " 

I'm in favour of the flat rate % on final value with free insertion fees

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*blushes*

oops sorry, yes I was

me too - flat rate percentage works for me, just can't explain it properly

[waddingtonfirstaid]

eBay has become way too expensive as evidenced by far cheaper product on seller-direct websites or in store. The eBay strategists mis-judged the online marketplace when they took the small hard-working sellers out of the equation many months ago. I used to buy a lot of things on eBay but now i find they are far cheaper elsewhere with much better product support. Our company now makes it our policy to buy direct from sellers who have their own websites and, next, use the general Google to search for the product name with term 'price'. In a split second you'll see just how poor eBay's prices are compared to the other search results.

eBay really do very little. if you don't understand that concept, just see other auction sites and how they can run for little to no cost yet provide a shopping interface just like eBay's. And they don't send their profits overseas to tax havens!

[clarry100]

Agree...

When we buy things now we usually don't end up buying from an ebay seller. After doing our research we usually find the product significantly cheaper thru an independent web site.

eg. we recently purchased a replacement router/modem for use at home. We found it a full $10 cheaper (about 10%) including all postage and any other costs than the best seller on ebay was able to offer. And it turned up the next day by overnight courier.

[gec2002]

Yes $10 difference sounds about right assuming the price was $100 (from your 10%) if the seller had a premium store and sold as a BIN ebay FVF and listing fees would have been $7.20 plus Paypal of $2.70.  However the website would have had either the paypal fee or a card merchant fee so could be ignored.  I also assumed free post, to take in account new included FVF on postage.  Any other combination of auction or basic store make it even dearer