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COOLTRIKERCHICK

jennypdolphin wrote: »

I bought two books last week (using the £5 discount so only paying approx 90p) and they've both arrived. The sellers dont get paid until you rate them either. its quite good in my opinion

ooo didnt know that thanks for telling me, better go and rate the seller...


edit just rated them....

just out of curio.. how much comission or fee do they charge if you sell something? cant find it on the site..

Mayday

http://www.priceminister.co.uk/help/fv

Free: Listing an item on the site is free of charge, with no time limits or quantity restrictions. The [URL="javascript:PM.PopUp.open(PM.BT.ub(47,'help',47,'edito_commission',47,'popup',47,'true'), PM.PopUp.Type.HELP, 500, 430);"]commission[/URL] is not added until you receive payment for your sale.
Commission

On PriceMinister, you can list an unlimited number of items for free.
PriceMinister will only take a commission when an item is sold.

Below is a description of how the PriceMinister commission is worked out:

CALCULATING THE COMMISSION:

Placing an item online : Unlimited and Free of charge.

The commission is made up of a variable amount calculated according the following price brackets:

- 1% (inc. tax) of all prices above £375.00
- 5% (inc. tax) of all prices between £225.00 and £375.00
- 10% (inc. tax) of all prices between £75.00 and £225.00
- 15% (inc. tax) of all prices below £75.00

And a fixed amount which depends on the price of sale:

- £0.30 (inc. tax) if the price is below £4.00
- £0.70 (inc. tax) if the price is between £4.00 and £8.00
- £1.00 (inc. tax) if the price is between £8.00 and £75.00
- £1.40 (inc. tax) if the price is above £75.00

In some cases, and in order to compensate sellers for additional delivery costs, PriceMinister also refunds the seller with a fixed amount corresponding to the type of item sold. This amount is shown when putting online the item.

In order to ensure that all sales are profitable, the price of an item cannot be less than 90p.

Please note that even if you decide not to sell your item in the end, you will not be charged for it as posting a listing online is free.

TurkishDelight

Okay- 13 days on and it's not going well for me. I think as a buyer I'll give it a fairly wide berth. Out of 8 purchases 3 have been cancelled completely with no explaination, one took a week to send a knackered book, and one is still not here and I get this message when I try and report it missing

The seller began preparing the item for delivery 13 days ago. It is possible that he has forgotten to post the item

:rolleyes: Apparently I have to give the seller 3 weeks to deliver. Given that I don't use this site very often I will probably forget and they will end up kepping my money (well priceministers money mostly thanks to the voucher code). Why do I get the feeling that these sellers didn't think through the practicalities of the possible 6 week wait for funds?

JustLittleOldMe_2

jennypdolphin wrote: »

I bought two books last week (using the £5 discount so only paying approx 90p) and they've both arrived. The sellers dont get paid until you rate them either. its quite good in my opinion

How do they make a buyer rate a seller then?
As on ebay 50% of buyers dont bother to leave feedback, and if they didnt do it on this site, the seller wouldnt get paid!!

TurkishDelight

JustLittleOldMe wrote: »

How do they make a buyer rate a seller then?
As on ebay 50% of buyers dont bother to leave feedback, and if they didnt do it on this site, the seller wouldnt get paid!!

The funds get released after 6 weeks (yeah, as a buyer and as a seller it seems this site is in no hurry.)

cyberbob

TurkishDelight wrote: »

The funds get released after 6 weeks (yeah, as a buyer and as a seller it seems this site is in no hurry.)

Well I wont be selling there then. I can just about justify paypals 21 day hold for new sellers but that goes eventually but 6 weeks all the time! no way

Mayday

soolin wrote: »

Well I've taken the plunge and opened a selling account, after all it took me 5 1/2 years to get one single sale on ebid and this site can't be any worse than ebid, can it?

Any joy, Soolin ??

soolin

Mayday wrote: »

Any joy, Soolin ??

No, nothing yet. I'm still listing stuff though as I do on ebid all the time in case any buyers happen to stumble by. It's a shame, I had great hopes for Priceminster.

Amy21

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I didn't see the need to create one just for my question.

I ordered something on the 29th from a seller on priceminister and haven't received anything or had contact from the seller at all, so I just wondered do people think it's too early to contact and ask where it is? Or should I leave it a few more days?

I don't want to seem pushy or anything, but I would have thought it would be here by now.

soolin

It's always worth dropping the seller a line, I'm not sure how buyer protection works on Priceminster.