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on โ17-07-2019 05:39 PM
sold my first item since losing the $1 fvf offer today
1 item $55 + post to usa $29.50
fvf charged $9.20
highway robbery
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on โ17-07-2019 05:47 PM
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on โ17-07-2019 06:10 PM
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on โ17-07-2019 06:44 PM
With the exchange rate so high in the US's favour, if there's a fair chance your buyer will be from the US you should be increasing your prices a bit. 8 or 9 years ago I was buying from the US and the exchange rate was less than $1.10 AU to $1 US. Now it's over $1.40 AU, which means that Australian goods would look like real bargains to US buyers. Something that would previously listed as $11 AU could now be listed $14 AU and should have the same chance of selling. Why sell at the cheaper price if you could add another 30% and cover your fees AND have a bit to spare.
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on โ17-07-2019 06:59 PM
@davidc4430 wrote:sold my first item since losing the $1 fvf offer today
1 item $55 + post to usa $29.50
fvf charged $9.20
highway robbery
Same as what you would have been charged had the $1 promo never existed, or you were one of the ones that didn't qualify for it. I can't believe people are still banging on about this. 12 months ago you'd have been none the wiser and would have got your money and posted your item without thinking about it.
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on โ17-07-2019 07:05 PM
I hear you OP - BUT at least you got a sale!
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on โ17-07-2019 07:33 PM
@davidc4430 wrote:sold my first item since losing the $1 fvf offer today
1 item $55 + post to usa $29.50
fvf charged $9.20
highway robbery
Welcome to my world, lol. (Store owner, so no special FVF deals for me, and I get charged higher FVF than a lot of other categories, because.... โพ\_(ใ)_/โพ )
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on โ17-07-2019 07:39 PM
@digital*ghost wrote:
@davidc4430 wrote:sold my first item since losing the $1 fvf offer today
1 item $55 + post to usa $29.50
fvf charged $9.20
highway robbery
Welcome to my world, lol. (Store owner, so no special FVF deals for me, and I get charged higher FVF than a lot of other categories, because.... โพ\_(ใ)_/โพ )
Damn it. I never thought about it that way before. Probably becuase many of my items are on the lower scales. Now I have something else to be irritated by. It makes no difference whatsoever to ebay what catagory an item is in, it's not like they are warehousing the products or anything.
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on โ17-07-2019 07:40 PM
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on โ17-07-2019 07:52 PM
@purplemon18 wrote:
Damn it. I never thought about it that way before. Probably becuase many of my items are on the lower scales. Now I have something else to be irritated by. It makes no difference whatsoever to ebay what catagory an item is in, it's not like they are warehousing the products or anything.
From eBay's perspective, I'm guessing it was meant as a subtle way of encouraging higher-quality listings, and / or reducing the volume of lower quality ones in those particular categories.
This sort of becomes more evident when you look at which categories are given lower FVF than the standard rate - i.e. tech items, like iPhones etc, eBay really wants those items on the site, they always mention them when they spam around for sellers to list their Christmas gifts and the like. Conversely, they don't really need more fashion items, jewellery, books etc here, so if they charge a higher fee, they can kind of passively reduce and curate listings in those categories.
That's the theory, anyway. I suspect in practice it didn't quite have that kind of impact, it just made more people more resentful. (the smiley is because I include myself in the resentful camp, but I shuffle on regardless).

