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@sirakovski.2007 wrote:

I am extremely disappointed with ebay - gone are the days when the little person could sell an item and reach a wide sector of the market.  While I was on ebay checking how my FEW items were going I was browsing and buying others.  I was not nor will I ever be a big seller on ebay. 

 

To sell  an Item I have to use PayPal - no PayPal no listing.  After my item sold PayPal takes a cut and then ebay takes their cut - 9.9% to be exact.  I really cannot justify the 9.9% fee. I can understand a small fee being a fixed price for the service provided but a 9.9% fee of the final value is a joke.  The same amount of effort goes into an item if it is $1 or $1000.  Both ebay and the seller do no extra work on the $1000 item.  Fees like that should be directed to the big businesses.

 

A lot of people who sell on ebay are individuals  that may have a handful of items to sell every now and then. Ebay is quite happy to charge the  local community for selling their second-hand items and charge them 9.9%

 

Consideration should be given to the small sellers - people who sell every now and then.

 

Gumtree is my next move!!!!!!!!!

 

Elvi

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Fees like that should be directed to the big business..............WHY ?????

Every account holder on ebay costs the company money. It would be much cheaper and more efficient for ebay to have 100 sellers each with 1,000,000 listings than to have 1,000,000 customers each with 100 listings. On this basis it could be argued that small seller should pay much more per item to use ebays platform than bigger sellers as they cost the company much more to service. In effect this is what actually happens.

I,m sorry, but I just cant understand why people think ebay, which is a business designed to make a profit, should just give its services away for free to small sellers who only sell now and then. You dont go into Woolies or Coles and expect them to give you the groceries for free if you only shop there now and then,  so why ebay ????