fees on postage paid

[shedman61]

How is it that ebay gets away with taking fees from the postage amount paid?? 12% fees not good enough, taKE 12% FROM THE POSTAGE AMOUNT WHICH YOU HAVE TO MAKE UP TO PAY THE POSTAGE.

eBAY THE SELLER DOESN'T GET THE POSTAGE AMOUNT.

[shedman61]

appreciate the thought, but seller still pays fees on the postage cost that way too.

[ma_918908]

In effect it raises the % eBay take to about 20% on the item which may be a false indication on the rate chart?

I think the % on the fee should be refunded ion the postage part f you purchase postage through eBay - this seems the ethical and legal? thing to do. I understand why eBay have had to implement this fee but a credit should be received on the postage part 🤞🤞🤞

[shedman61]

appreciate your understanding of the issue and reply, and agree with your idea. definitely ethical thing ebay could do, but hidden (for the foggy!) actual fee percentage amount no doubt attractive for ebay. I've contacted ebay about it back when it started.. but they not seem to understand it................... !

effective percent can range higher than 20% too. (cheap item high postage)

Cheers

[shedman61]

just in! .... look at your ebay postage charge.. you get a 'discount' for buying the label on ebay... or do you?!

my latest package ebay auspost discounted price 18.67, at auspost price 15.25 .

I contacted ebay about it.. "there is a system error being fixed at the moment"

did I miss the notification about that? no, did anyone get notified?

but we'll get a notification when it is fixed.  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pnc75]

It's been a problem for weeks now. And they've known about it from the start and haven't done a thing. Their solution is to tell you to use fixed rate and not calculated. That's ok for parcels under 1 kg, but once you go over 1 kg it's a nightmare. 

Yesterday they offered me a 'cheap' ebay postage label for $18+ for an item that I sent as a large letter!