how is it eBay can charge for postage in the fees section

[skippychippy0]

I sell an item on ebay for the auction price then get charged for that, then when i post I get charged for posting. for example postage price for sold item was $8.50 cost me $7.95 for postage plus bubble wrap, box and packaging and i then get charged 95 cents.

[lyndal1838]

The Final Value Fee applies tothe postage component of the invoice as well as the item.

[bubblebooks2020]

If they didn't charge a final value fee on postage, imagine what some people would charge for postage! People would be selling the item at a lower price and raising the price of postage to ridiculous amounts.

[enigmabear]

That is exactly why the put the postage fee in several years ago

People where putting very low prices for the item and $500 for postage...until ebay cottoned on

[x3n0m]

"People where putting very low prices for the item and $500 for postage...until ebay cottoned on"

So ebay decided to punish the people doing the right thing and let those blatantly breaking the rules to stay selling here .. the further you send your parcel the more you need to pay ebay .. anyway I have stopped selling here as a result of these money lifting scams  .. basically these YAnks and corporates show up here and our ACCC is their lapdog used to screw us over ..

As an aside the O site (qui**sales.com.au) is being closed without being offered for sale .. illegal for a stock market listed company and the ACCC looks the other way again (actually trading post wanted to acquire it and the ACCC blocked that too .. see how this game works yet?) .. rort after rort insures that Australian businesses tied to ecommerce market-places are at the mercy of corporate cowboys with zero ethics ..

.. obviously the ACCC is part of this disgusting rort against the Australian people .. I could go on but it just brings out those here who fully support corporate rorting and malpractice by government departments set up to protect consumers from exactly these type of corporate lowlife ..

[davewil1964]

It is NOT a listed company. It is a solely owned subsidiary of carsales.

Which is not closing, so it is not illegal. Never let the facts get in the way of a conspiracy theory, hey?

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

I think the fee on postage was designed to get sellers to use what eBay call "Free Postage" . . . . . . something the rest of us call "postage included".

This means that sellers that sell by Buy It Now with "postage included", and price their items accordingly, were actually paying fees on postage, and eBay are always waffling on about how buyers love free postage!

[springyzone]

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@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:

I think the fee on postage was designed to get sellers to use what eBay call "Free Postage" . . . . . . something the rest of us call "postage included".

This means that sellers that sell by Buy It Now with "postage included", and price their items accordingly, were actually paying fees on postage, and eBay are always waffling on about how buyers love free postage!

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I think ebay believes buyers do love 'free postage' & I think they are probably right, but only because its easy for buyers to see at a glance the total price, without having to bother doing any mental maths. I've actually heard friends say-and the postage was free so I didn't have to pay any extra.

I think the ebay plus is another variation of ebay's belief in the appeal of 'free postage' but ironically, that system would favour sellers who actually had a separate postage charge. Let's face it, if you were a buyer with ebay plus and saw 2 identical qualifying items, one at $10 plus $8 postage, and another as $18 with 'free postage', you would go for the $10 one.

Of course, the seller would end up paying the same fees regardless, but it seems contradictory that ebay first pushes sellers towards offering 'free' postage but then sets up another system that potentially could put sellers who do charge separate postage at an advantage.

[x3n0m]

okay davewill this is the notice when you go to the website:


PLEASE NOTE - Quicks**es.com.au is shutting down.

Quicksales will continue to operate until July 30th 2018. We encourage you to collect any transactional and customer data prior to the 30th as it will be inaccessible beyond this date.


and here you will see that carsales (the ownere of quicksales) is a listed company on the Australian stockmarket

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b&q=ASX:CAR&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgecRozi3w8sc9YSm9SWtOX...


and thus has a responsibility to its shareholders (should not be buying multi million dollar comapanies and shutting them down without offering for sale) aside from the obvious anti competition connection assisting ebay and amazon by shutting down a major Australian owned ecommerce portal with that large a userbase etc ..  and of course our ACCC does nothing .. care to respond davewill?

AS for the other mealy mouthed responses here you obviously believe you are getting brownie points or something .. we are being rorted!!! .. very simple .. nbothing to do with encouraging free postage or what not .. it is theft and deceit and lies!!!!~ racketeering ..

[davewil1964]

Given they don't charge for QS, it can only be in the interests of shareholders to not have to maintain it. Not that they have done much of that in the last few years.

They bought it for the backend software, which they have used for the rest of their sites, so there is really nothing to sell. The QS platform itself hasn't topped 1 mill items for sale for several years now, so it is hardly a major player in the space.

Never let facts get in the way of a conspiracy, hey?

Ps: if you're so worried about it, why don't YOU take up the cudgels and fight for truth, justice and the American Australian way?