hiwhy does ebay take commission on shipping cost as I sell items for auction

why does ebay take a commission on shipping fees?. I have been told by ebay staff by phone to add postage onto price of item & tick postage free. All my items are auctions so if I started item off at .99 cents with postage at $14.80 The buyer would recieve item for nothing & it would cost me more than the item is worth. I don't mind paying commission for final valuation fee 10%. But ebay forced people selling into opening  pay-pal accounts. Pay-Pal   take their commission on total amount deposited by buyer which includes shipping costs. then ebay take their commission out of the total deposit (item final value sold & shipping costs). Do they expect the smaller ebayer members to compete with all the bigger companies that mark their products up when bought & add their propfit percentage plus shipping costs into the price of their items before selling at a fixed price. Example Myers, david jones, target all have postal account where they can send any item anywhere in australia for about $5.00 how can I being a smaller ebay seller compete with that. We the smaller ebay seller are getting charged commission twice on the same final value fee & shipping by ebay & pay-pal. Could you please look into this matter as it is unfair to be charged twice for the one total price by both companies.

thankyou

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My point would get me a holiday.

 

Your point seems to be that you are right and everybody who disagrees with you (the majority) are wrong.

 

Tony Abbot thought that.

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My point would get me a holiday.

 

Your point seems to be that you are right and everybody who disagrees with you (the majority) are wrong.

 

Tony Abbot thought that.


Who is this majority you and 2 other people who by the way always stick up for each other and have VERY strange ideas of what is what.

 

If I am wrong why do you just keep making silly pointless statements like the one above

 

The FACT is I pay the EBay fees another fact is I do not care if you call me a liar because seriously I know you feel people need your approval but they do not. YOU are wrong it is pretty simple. If I am lying stop making random pointless statements and show me where I am lying

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Just read all this and ...................

 

newdeals sounds a lot like erg?         Just sayin'

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The FACT is every seller on eBay pays eBay fees. I did not call you a liar, I simply suggested your version of reality is not quite the same as actual reality. Google 'paradigm'. Please point out in detail where I am wrong. Factually, not paradigmly.

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@imastawka wrote:

Just read all this and ...................

 

newdeals sounds a lot like erg?         Just sayin'


Ouch that hurt lol

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The FACT is every seller on eBay pays eBay fees. I did not call you a liar, I simply suggested your version of reality is not quite the same as actual reality. Google 'paradigm'. Please point out in detail where I am wrong. Factually, not paradigmly.


Do you want to rewind to what this is actually about? This is about a buyer saying sellers do not pay the fees on postage buyers do and I said I pay my fees NOT my buyers 

 

So dave which is do I pay them fees or are YOU calling me a lair and I will say again by calling ME a lair YOU are wrong Your also wrong on the other point (which had nothing to do with anything) of me losing money having a store

 

As far as googling words if YOU can not post in a way you expect others to understand that is YOUR problem not mine

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@*tippy*toes* wrote:

I currently have 176 items listed on my main account. Didn't pay for one of them...........and I don't pay the fees on any of them! Only a nong would pay the fees themselves and then complain about how much they are >_<


yes we have established you do not like paying for things you spend time hunting for boxes rather than just buying them cool you save money but I value my time more than a few cent. You wait for free listing to get your items up rather than paying a small fee to make sure you can list items without worrying about finding free listing offers once again I value my time. Even though you have a very large profit margin you still think a buyer should pick up ebays fees well I do not and personally i doubt if the fee where not there your buyers would see any difference in the price they pay I will let you think they would but come on your the person who check an extra 20% on top of what you think is a fair price for BIN 


I happen to buy groceries most weeks, which I'm sure most others do too....unless you buy take out all the time. I pay for my groceries while the young lad by the name of David takes a box of boxes to my car. You see, they know I collect them, so they save them for me. No work on my part, and certainly no effort (apart from the tedious task of doing shopping which I loathe). I told them I'd be happy to go out to the dock and collect the boxes myself, but young David is more than happy to bring them out for me. I think he fancies me.

 

I also get a lot of boxes from work. No effort there either. I often find a box of boxes sitting in front of my locker, or a pile on top. Only effort is to carry them to my car.

 

As for using free listing promotions? So what? When did that become a crime? Jealous that I get them and you don't? Even if I don't use the promotions, which I sometimes don't, my sales are still high. The 176 items listed will be all gone by the end of the month. That will be a nice chunk off my mortgage. Once they're gone, I've still got most of the 40 allocation for the month, so shall use them. It's quite a few more than your 19 for the last 90 days.

 

I don't have an issue paying for anything. I just know how to maximise my profits, which I thought was good business sense. If something needs to be bought, I buy it. I don't buy it out of my pocket though, it comes out of the profits. The profits that the buyers paid. That then becomes an expense, which I claim back on my tax.

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by calling ME a lair

 

I didn't, but if the cap fits...

 

And if you don't understand what a paradigm is, you are probably correct that googling it won't help you.

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@*tippy*toes* wrote:

@247newdeals wrote:

@*tippy*toes* wrote:

I currently have 176 items listed on my main account. Didn't pay for one of them...........and I don't pay the fees on any of them! Only a nong would pay the fees themselves and then complain about how much they are >_<


yes we have established you do not like paying for things you spend time hunting for boxes rather than just buying them cool you save money but I value my time more than a few cent. You wait for free listing to get your items up rather than paying a small fee to make sure you can list items without worrying about finding free listing offers once again I value my time. Even though you have a very large profit margin you still think a buyer should pick up ebays fees well I do not and personally i doubt if the fee where not there your buyers would see any difference in the price they pay I will let you think they would but come on your the person who check an extra 20% on top of what you think is a fair price for BIN 


I happen to buy groceries most weeks, which I'm sure most others do too....unless you buy take out all the time. I pay for my groceries while the young lad by the name of David takes a box of boxes to my car. You see, they know I collect them, so they save them for me. No work on my part, and certainly no effort (apart from the tedious task of doing shopping which I loathe). I told them I'd be happy to go out to the dock and collect the boxes myself, but young David is more than happy to bring them out for me. I think he fancies me.

 

I also get a lot of boxes from work. No effort there either. I often find a box of boxes sitting in front of my locker, or a pile on top. Only effort is to carry them to my car.

 

As for using free listing promotions? So what? When did that become a crime? Jealous that I get them and you don't? Even if I don't use the promotions, which I sometimes don't, my sales are still high. The 176 items listed will be all gone by the end of the month. That will be a nice chunk off my mortgage. Once they're gone, I've still got most of the 40 allocation for the month, so shall use them. It's quite a few more than your 19 for the last 90 days.

 

I don't have an issue paying for anything. I just know how to maximise my profits, which I thought was good business sense. If something needs to be bought, I buy it. I don't buy it out of my pocket though, it comes out of the profits. The profits that the buyers paid. That then becomes an expense, which I claim back on my tax.


As a matter of fact I actaully think good on you for saving money but I really am not going to bother doing it I would rather just pay and be done with it it also has nothing to do with the fact I pay the fees on postage

 

Jealous you get the free listing and i do not not in the least the $20 is well and truly more than covered and I would rather not bother worrying about it but good on you for saving $20 a month not sure what the 19 in the last 90 days is all about but I have a feeling it has nothing to do with if I pay the fees not the buyer

 

Sorry did you just say it comes out of the profits? I thought you charged extra so you do not pay out of YOUR profits now you have confused me do the fee come out of your profits or not? 

 

There is a very simple exercise to see where the fees come from at the start of the year we had a postage increase how many seller increase the postage cost by $0.33 a stamp and $0.55 for priority, if offered, I think you will find those that increased the prices increased by $0.30 a stamp and $0.50 and I am sure if Aupost increased parcel costs by 10% tomorrow most seller would only increase by 10% not 11% need to cover the fees as well. Yes some would but most sellers would not because we pay the fees NOT the buyers

 

 

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@davewil1964 wrote:

by calling ME a lair

 

I didn't, but if the cap fits...

 

And if you don't understand what a paradigm is, you are probably correct that googling it won't help you.


Once again just a random statement with NO meaning at least you are consistent 

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