Paypal fees on ebay

Hintza

pinkgem wrote:

Amazon can get it a bit wrong though as they give an allowance of £1.99 for video games, this also includes consoles and when I sold a Wii I had to pay £18.50 to post it by Special Delivery

Thats when you have to switch to courier...anything over 2Kg goes by courier unless it is really cheap then I use RM parcels (not much of a saving over the courier to be honest).

RainbowsInTheSpray

Thanks you for comments. I was actually referring to the size of the paypal commission. Am I correct in thinking that it went up dramatically some time ago? I seem to recall a lot of negative comment some time last year.

frivolous_fay

pinkgem wrote:

I think what ebay need to do is have an easier/less involved way to report items with excessive postage, so if someone browsing sees an item with ridiculous postage they can just click on a "report" link or similar, then if lots of people reported it ebay might do something about it.

There is now a 'Report This Item' button at the bottom of each page which automatically puts the item number into the report. A significant improvement!

Star

At the end of the day sellers should be able to charge what they like for postage as long as it is clearly displayed. I always take the total price into account before bidding and if the P+P is excessive don't buy.

pinkgem

Hintza wrote:

Thats when you have to switch to courier...anything over 2Kg goes by courier unless it is really cheap then I use RM parcels (not much of a saving over the courier to be honest).

I could have sent by Parcelforce for £14 but that only had insurance up to £150 and its an extra £10 for up to £500 so would have cost £24. I have only ever used Parcelforce and UPS who are also quite pricey, what courier do you use?

I don't like using Royal Mail Standard Parcels for expensive items on ebay or amazon as there is no proof of delivery only proof of posting

pinkgem

RainbowsInTheSpray wrote:

Thanks you for comments. I was actually referring to the size of the paypal commission. Am I correct in thinking that it went up dramatically some time ago? I seem to recall a lot of negative comment some time last year.

Its been 3.4% plus 20p per payment for as long as I can remember, someone correct me if I am wrong, I may have forgotten.

pinkgem

frivolous_fay wrote:

There is now a 'Report This Item' button at the bottom of each page which automatically puts the item number into the report. A significant improvement!

I hadn't noticed that... goes off to look.

pinkgem

hmm I can't see it. :S

pennylane99

at the bottom of page, under the bid box...says

What else can you do?

Back to My Ebay, Ask seller a question, Add to Calendar, Report this Item, Printer Version

pinkgem

pennylane99 wrote:

at the bottom of page, under the bid box...says

ah yeah, thanks, i must make that opticians appointment!