Ebay Fee's - Is it really worth it...

[anonymous-user]

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[Thorburn]

Reason 37 on the list of "Why I don't sell on eBay..."

[AUDIHenry]

eBay gives you an access to a huge marketplace and for that it charges a fee. I don't see what's wrong with that. You'd spend more time and money trying to find a buyer elsewhere.

[AntJC]

Don't forget that as a E bay seller your also "forced" to accept Pay-Pal payments.

Funny how Pay-Pal is owned by E bay, so you get shafted for listing, and selling fees, and then E bay comes along (under the guise of Pay-Pal) and rapes you for a more quid.

Surely E bay should be investigated for this uncompetitive practice in relation to their ownership of Pay-Pal??

Edited by AntJC on Wednesday 1st December 11:26

[ukzz4iroc]

Like was said above- you pay for having access to a massive market-place. What's wrong with having to pay for that? Don't like it? Don't use it!

[Strawman]

AntJC said:

Don't forget that as a E bay seller your also "forced" to accept Pay-Pal payments.

You are forced to include that as a payment option in your listing but can still offer to take payment by cheque or cash if you want.
Most IRL auction houses charge the seller a 15-20% sellers fee, Ebay's 10% (then less for higher amounts) looks reasonable in comparison, although they do less of the work so that sort of evens it out.

[Thorburn]

ukzz4iroc said:

Like was said above- you pay for having access to a massive market-place. What's wrong with having to pay for that? Don't like it? Don't use it!

The problem I find is it opens you to a massive marketplace filled with scammers, imports and time wasters.

I just use specialist forums personally. Less hassle and lower costs.

[daemon]

gumtree works well for me and no fees.

I think thats where ebay are expecting private individuals to go. I think they just want bigger volume traders, rather than the hassle of loads of private sellers.

[MX7]

The fees are published on their site.

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/fees.html

I think they are slightly too high, but it really shouldn't come as a surprise.

[Bebee]

You sell all your stuff and think you've done well for little out lay (cost of pics, insertion fee, etc) then a few days after the sale they hit you with a final value fee, and your heart sinks. In the end you've more or less given it away.

[Galsia]

I've used ebay to sell things and never had a problem although a few weeks ago I sold some seats for £80 cash on collection and Ebay charged me £15 in fees which I thought was very steep.

[Jasandjules]

As with all auctions, there are fees.

Is it worth it? Well, I don't use it anymore to sell stuff..........

[Busa_Rush]

eBay puts you in touch with idiots who will buy all your old st that nobody else in their right mind would buy . . . got to be worth a fee ?

[AntJC]

But the risk to E bay is almost zero.

They get their fees etc, you get the hassle of dealing with scammers, time wasters etc.

And the recent changes to various policies means that its heavily weighted towards the buyer not the seller.

Why the hell did they remove the ability for a seller to leave negative feedback against a buyer as an example??

[300bhp/ton]

AUDIHenry said:

eBay gives you an access to a huge marketplace and for that it charges a fee. I don't see what's wrong with that. You'd spend more time and money trying to find a buyer elsewhere.

Sadly I think eBay is just becoming a bit of a cesspool of late, especially for car stuff.

Just search for any car and you'll get 1000's of results for total crap, wiper blades, blue bulbs that are illegal, LED bulbs that don't fit. And all are traders not punters anymore.

Sure there are a few deals to be had, but most of it is cheap crappy tat that nobody actually ever wants.

[chris1roll]

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[Bebee]

anonymous said:

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I know how to do this and thought about it but If that's not against ebay policy then it will be, anything that will cost them money will be prohibited.

[Strawman]

Bebee said:

I know how to do this and thought about it but If that's not against ebay policy then it will be, anything that will cost them money will be prohibited.

Many of the "Top Ebay Sellers" use a third party listing site for photographs, JpegEbay.com is one that allows free hosting, there are many others which do it for a small fixed monthly fee. If Ebay minded I don't think so many of the businesses registered to sell on there would use third party photo hosting sites.

[Hitler Hadrump]

AntJC said:

But the risk to E bay is almost zero.

They get their fees etc, you get the hassle of dealing with scammers, time wasters etc.

And the recent changes to various policies means that its heavily weighted towards the buyer not the seller.

Why the hell did they remove the ability for a seller to leave negative feedback against a buyer as an example??

That wasn't as stupid as it seems. In the past, if you'd been ripped off by a bad seller, you were taking a real risk leaving a negative, because the seller would often give you a negative in return. Your 100% feedback rating ruined for life. Now you can rate bad sellers without worrying about your feedback, and your percentage is based on the last 12 months instead of lifetime.

Of course this means sellers can't leave negatives for non paying bidders, but that doesn't matter as filing a non payment report against a buyer gets them blocked from most people's auctions anyway.

300bhp/ton said:

AUDIHenry said:

eBay gives you an access to a huge marketplace and for that it charges a fee. I don't see what's wrong with that. You'd spend more time and money trying to find a buyer elsewhere.

Sadly I think eBay is just becoming a bit of a cesspool of late, especially for car stuff.

Just search for any car and you'll get 1000's of results for total crap, wiper blades, blue bulbs that are illegal, LED bulbs that don't fit. And all are traders not punters anymore.

Sure there are a few deals to be had, but most of it is cheap crappy tat that nobody actually ever wants.

This is true, a lot of categories are full of cheap imported tat, especially car parts. But you can filter most of the traders out using the search options on the left.

[rottie102]

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