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Author eBay - is it me or have their fees increased?
deano87
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Selling my girlfriends Louis Vuitton stuff on eBay to get her out of debt.

Her purse sold for £80 Buy It Now. It costed a couple of quid to post because they had picture galleries etc on a deal. Except the final value fee is £7.99

Last time I sold something I swear it wasn't that much. Dread to think what the final value fee for her bag will be once it sells for over the hoped reserve of £250

Anybody else experienced stupid fees lately?

[Edited on 14-12-2009 by deano87]
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It's now something silly like 15% to list and sell something and receive money by paypal which is a fucking farce

Whenever i list something now i always hope to sell outside of ebay because that's the only way it's worth it
eddiewhiteley
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buy it now fees are 9.9% i think, auction final value fees are around half of that, about 4.5%.
deano87
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So that is why they continue the Buy It Now whilst the auction is running.

When you used to run an item with Buy It Now & standard auction, they used to scrap the Buy It Now when someone bidded, even if it was only £0.01. Now they let the Buy It Now run.

Good idea though to keep any eye on an item if you're a buyer and if it goes above the Buy It Now, quickly Buy It Now
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Ebay is robbing cunts end of its ridiculous

if buyer collects I usually remove it and just pay the listing


Not that I have sold much on there anyway

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Bonney
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One of the reasons I gave up selling things on there, Will only buy off there now after shopping around as there are better deals to be had out there.
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ebay is only good for buyers now :-( .
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I stopped selling for this very reason, robbing shower of twats.
davcohen
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great way of selling a car, last time i called the guy and asked do you mind if i put we mutually agreed not to continue with this transaction he said no probs

I got £20 back in fee's we both left each other good feedback and anyone on the outside would never have known

on the other hand they are robbing bastids all that money you pay you'd expect top class secure service which is something neither ebay or paypal offer in anyway
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I just sold my DS through auction for £79 and was charged £8.50ish in fees. That'll be 10% them final value.
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It's 15% all in on a normal auction using paypal.
eddiewhiteley
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any auction house charges a comission for selling, do people expect ebay to do it for free
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Their fee's are pretty steep these days unfortunately. I spend around £40 a month on my listings
John
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quote:
Originally posted by eddiewhiteley
any auction house charges a comission for selling, do people expect ebay to do it for free


I expect it to be proportional to the service, which it's nowhere close to being.

The sole reason ebay get away with charging so much is because it's so big, they won't hold that forever and the prices will drop quick enough.
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most auction houses typically charge between 10-20% commission, i wouldnt hold my breath for them to lower fees.
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whats the problem with the service they provide?
John
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It's shocking if anything at all goes wrong, especially if you are a seller.
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What's more, the bag hasn't sold.

I have tried relisting, as you do, and they won't allow me to for another 30 days, because of the type of product i.e. could be selling fake Louis Vuitton bags.

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15th Dec 09 at 22:54   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i prefur to collect..

sellers over charge on postage !!
deano87
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They wouldn't even allow me to add postage to her purse. Apparently it had to be free.

I just got the winning bidder to wait before paying and I invoiced them.
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I think eBay's always charged 10% for a while now.

PayPal fees differ due to account and payment type etc. etc.
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quote:
Originally posted by Anty
i prefur to collect..

sellers over charge on postage !!


That's why a lot of categories now require you to offer free P&P.
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quote:
Originally posted by Anty
i prefur to collect..

sellers over charge on postage !!


I used to add a bit on top like most to cover the paypal fee's, although im talking about max 50p

got to agree with John, if your a seller you get F-all support, once i had my paypal account put on hold for over 10 days when i was trying to withdraw my own money into my own verified account wtf!!! how can you stop someone from doing this it doesnt even make sense

 
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