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superhans

shellsuit wrote: »

How are they hidden?? You only need to click 'help' at the top of the home page, enter 'fees' into the search bar and you will find plenty of information and charts about all fees

Surely anyone selling would check what the fees are first?

And if the fees are everywhere, they can't be hidden

Paypal stole £1.48 from a payment made to me from Homepages Friends into my Paypal account the amount was only £37.56, I have never heard of charging me for receiving money,

Also I have been charged by Ebay a FV fee on a £19.99 item of £1.05, where as Paypal took a fee of £1.19, I thought Paypal was supposed to be alot less than Ebay's fees.

Also Ebay/Paypal is based in Luxembourgh which is a tax haven, so we pay taxes but they don't have to,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Luxembourg

ArmitageShanks

superhans wrote: »

Like who?.

courier thread. link to shortly

With regards to postage it depends what the item is. One of competitors charge £10 for parcelforce 24hr, we charge £6.80 DHL 24hr yet we both have 4.7 DSR for postage.

Courier Cost Cutting Feedback/Discussion thread

shellsuit

superhans wrote: »

Paypal stole £1.48 from a payment made to me from Homepages Friends into my Paypal account the amount was only £37.56, I have never heard of charging me for receiving money,

Also I have been charged by Ebay a FV fee on a £19.99 item of £1.05, where as Paypal took a fee of £1.19, I thought Paypal was supposed to be alot less than Ebay's fees.

Also Ebay/Paypal is based in Luxembourgh which is a tax haven, so we pay taxes but they don't have to,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Luxembourg

All the T&C's are there to read before you sign up with Paypal and Ebay, so if you'd read through them beforehand, you would have known that you were going to get charged

superhans

Anyone got any tips to help newbies to Ebay like me?.

ArmitageShanks

Don't have descriptions which showcase every colour, every size and every font face available.

eg.

As of 30/07/2008 Make £5 per day, Aug 08 £204.33/£155,:rotfl: "Homepages Friends" £143.18, 4 payouts, 20/3/08 £12.18, 15/4/08 £21.88, 13/6/08 £36.08, 25/7/08 £22.80, Quidco £344.08, paid £68.28, TopCashBack £34.31, £30.71 paid, Pigsback 905 points, 3450 claimed turned into Ebay cash £14.69, Wabba Dabba 1 X £5.

superhans

The threads I use on MSEf everyone has the same type of sig, so it stays as it is.
:rotfl:
It is all the same font size, I have only used 6 colours of the 40 available and it is all the same font style.

luvvlyjubbly

superhans wrote: »

Anyone got any tips to help newbies to Ebay like me?.

Take clear photos and use a webhosting site like photobucket to get larger pictures in your description for free.
There is a sticky at the top of the of this forum that will give you some good ideas.

superhans

I personally use a free software package called Xnview which lets you crop images and colour/contrast adjust it, also saves it to a JPEG file for easy uploading, I crop the image as tight as possible so on the enlarged view it is as big as possible.

soolin

My tip (and I'm being all school marmy here again) is to make sure you understand the fee structure before you list, not afterwards.

Accept that not everything can sell at a profit on ebay, th eidea that people can list any old rubbish is long gone, consider your products carefully, check out the previous sales and the competitors, work out your profit margin and then work it out again to be 100% sure it is worth doing.

You pay a listing fee..make sure you don't do somehting stupid like start an item at £1 when a 99p start might have saved you money. For items where you won't sell below a certain price, start it at that price don't risk a 99p start and then whinge item sold too cheaply.
Remember FVFs are going up, so be careful with you profit calculations, FVFs are payable on all successful sales unless you later go theough the dispute system. Remember also that you need a premier paypal account to receive all paypal funds and that you will then definitely be paying a fee on every amount received.

Don;t go daft on your postage, raising postage to save a penny or two on FVFs is a really daft idea as all that happens is that your stars suffer and you end up on a warning and no visibility.

Make sure you send goods quickly and well packed , don't wait a week and then expect your buyer to be happy, 48 hours is ideal but 3 or 4 days is also acceptable.

Understand how to keep yourself safe, use the correct postal service or courier and make sure you have sufficient insurance in case of loss.

Don't forget as well that if trading on ebay, even in a small way you must register with HMRC within 3 months of starting.

iieee

superhans wrote: »

Say if you would normally put postage of £1.99, and your item sold for £10.00 = a total of £11.99, Ebay would charge you a final value fee on the £10, but if you put the postage up to £3.99 and the item sold for £8.00 = £11.99 you would only be charged a final value fee on £8.00, a lot of Ebay shops do this, I personally don't do this but there is the option for saving a few pennies, but you can't get away with the Paypal fees.

FVF on £10 = 75p
FVF on £8 = 60p

Is it really worth lowering your search standing and risking negs etc from unhappy buyers for the sake of 15p?