Ebay to include postage in FVF`s !!??

Brooker_Dave

porto_bello wrote: »

With paypal, you are paying a percentage on a payment, regardless of what the payment is for. Fair enough.

But with ebay you are paying a fee for selling something and adding the cost of the entirely external postal service. If it's legal for ebay to charge sellers for using Royal Mail, what's to stop Royal Mail or your ISP or whoever similarly charging sellers (or buyers) for using ebay? Where will it end???

I plan to invoice you for the time I spent reading this post, and for this reply.

JC_Derby

tryingtogetsolvent wrote: »

I report people who break the rules as Ebay request, my choice, if I'm spiteful so be it...but its got naff all to do with you.

Youve posted it on a public forum, so you put the comment up there to be shot down.
Quite cute on the sellers behalf though, afterall it is memorobilia isnt it!
i used to report people selling copies and clones of games....because they were reducing my profitability. In the end though Ebay just dont do enough to protect sellers imho.

alx2010

porto_bello wrote: »

Amazon charge a percentage of the postage fee, but remember, that fee is on a postage credit that Amazon give the seller.

I don't see how ebay can similarly charge a proportion of the postal charges, when they do not actually supply or contribute anything to the cost of that wholly external service.

It's a bit like ebay charging sellers for using Facebook or Google - I can't see how ebay could justify charging for something that they don't supply. :think:

Amazon do give postage credit, but in my case I sell mugs and posters and the fee they charge out of the credit they give does not leave enough to post items 2nd class let alone packaging (poster tubes and mug cubes are expensive) - so i have to adjust the price of the items accordingly.