I posted this on another thread re: selling and originally was deleted as spam....
Here is the entire post:
Ebay's New Easy Pricing scheme
Re-Post as the last one was marked as Spam, unbelievably... SMH
What next?
Ebay's New Easy Pricing scheme has just begun to infiltrate my items for sale. Though I am not a commercial seller, I am selling quite a few items that I have from times gone by. I only sell good stuff, and it's worth what it's worth, and I know what these things are worth. Enough said!
So why in the world is Ebay interfering with my decisions about how I want to sell in this case?
Ebay's Easy pricing takes over my re-listed items "Buy it now" settings somehow, dropping the minimum offer to a low 50% or less than what the item is listed for. I mean that is just to annoy me with more notices that someone made a low-ball offer.
What else annoys me is that when I go to re-list an item, I am asked to accept the "Turn on Easy pricing" button, but if not, the only other choice is the "Maybe next Time" button.
Without my actual This insinuates without my actual approval that I am amiable to the idea in the near future, when in fact, I darn well am absolutely not interested!
Is this a way to soften peoples resolve to eventually give in to using the "Easy Pricing" structure as the norm if Ebay finds it to be popular? Even if in the farfetched possibility of that event occurring, many people would flat out just NOT WANT IT still, regardless of what others find ok or tolerable.
I personally find it offensive and imposing of Ebay to audaciously imply that everyone will like something they have implemented mainly to increase sales for their own accelerated profits (ie. sellers fees) while items of a certain value would often sell way below what we really want for them, if we are not careful to avoid the "Easy Pricing" setting.
IF I have made a calculation mistake in the actual figures above, don't bother castigating me about it, though you may clarify what the facts are, however it is still an unacceptable move to control each sellers selling structure whilst they may not be fully aware of it, thereby taking over a saleable items parameters more than they have the right to.
Do you all want to just give over all your rights to how you want to list something for sale?
Enough is enough I say. We need a new Ebay, one that goes by the original ideals of auction selling, in favour of sellers and buyers who want good exchange without being slugged enormous final sale fees.
We used to pay per listing a dollar or three here and there. But once the ball was rolling, eBay exchanged free listings for huge percentages of your end sell price. That meant instead of a couple of dollars to sell an item worth hundreds, now your feels multiplied ten times, and their capped ceiling of $100 for expensive items was lifted and now you pay 10% or more accross the board, essentially paying $300 to sell a $3000 item.
And what of their charging the 10% to postage costs too? I mean, what in the world has the postage costs got to do with eBay? Are they pretending they are doing everyone a service by showing postage choices and claiming they ought to step in and collect on the postage service too when they are not actually delivering anything? Their business is the listing site, not cartage.
I say it's time people start demanding a new place to sell, or build it themselves, and avoid letting eBay buy it out.
The time to pay less for internet listing is well overdue. It's just electricity guys, and those harnessing the User Interfaces have far less costs than the old newspapers having not paper-print necessities, but now have far overreached the fees of Even what it costed to list something on the Trading Post delivered paper.
I am baffled at how many silly ways have been invented to milk my money off what I am selling. A flat few dollars per listing would be fair and get rid of all the fluff and policies that have cramped everyone's freedom to sell how they want. Roll back the heavy load of rules and just go simple and everyone can have a good time and eBay would still make good profits. But I doubt upstairs they would want this to happen, so you all have to do something about it yourselves.
brilliant strategy.
