Excessive Postage

soolin

If anyone does want to report his 'lotto' auctions there is a sub category that is perfect, just follow the mechanism below:

'report this item'
'listing policy breaches'
'inappropriate seller terms'
'using ebay to raffle an iem'

Kaminari_2

*Kaminari climbs on high horse* My whinge for today. I am really sick of all those that feel that Ebay/Paypal fees are too much and they should avoid them by increasing postage and charging a surcharge. When you use these services you are choosing to pay for it. When you open a real store front you have lots of overheads like rent and insurance and staff and fitting and rates etc. Ebay/Paypal fees are just the overhead of running an ebay business. The reality check is what other online selling platform has the ability to get your items seen by as many people as Ebay? Shouldn't there be a fee for this privledge? When you sell at a real Auction you have to pay commission this is not that different. What other platform can you choose? A lesser known Auction site? Would you get the same amount for the item as it is highly unlikely the listing would be exposed to as many people?. Anyway what i am trying to say that in the grand scheme of things, in the world of buying and selling, ebay and Paypal combined can greatly lessen overheads of a business and have the potential to expose products to more people than any other online (and probably off line) platform. Quite simply if you don't like fees then do not use the service. Whoa!....breathe in....breathe out...Ahhh....feel better now. *Gets off High horse*

user051105

What subsection ebay contact us do you use for Paypal Surcharge Fee's

nightswimmer

user051105 wrote:

What subsection ebay contact us do you use for Paypal Surcharge Fee's

I realise that this is what they are doing, but will eBay see it that way where he specifies this is for the cost of a speedier delivery, rather than to use PayPal?

Moglex

alias7 wrote:

The dirty, evil, robbing b*stards!

Bet they eat Brie with grapes!

martindow

It seems odd that people complain at charges being made by Ebay and Paypal are unreasonable. Running web sites costs money. Ebay makes lots of money but that is because it is so big - lots of pennies add up.

It costs money to accept payments whoever takes the payments and Paypal's charges are very similar to those you would pay if you had a merchant account to accept credit cards.

Hintza

I think PayPal fees should rise BUT they also carry the can for fraudulent?stolen CC chargebacks like Amazon do.

smartie1976

martindow wrote:

It costs money to accept payments whoever takes the payments and Paypal's charges are very similar to those you would pay if you had a merchant account to accept credit cards.

Indeed, but very few retailers charge the customer an ADDITIONAL fee to accept a CC (although i can think Virgin Trains are a prime example).
The fees are built into the price.

zappahey

smartie1976 wrote:

Indeed, but very few retailers charge the customer an ADDITIONAL fee to accept a CC (although i can think Virgin Trains are a prime example).
The fees are built into the price.

I think you're missing the point. The ebay seller *is* the retailer and the ebay seller is paying fees that are similar to what other retailers pay to accept credit cards. Paypal is simply accepting the credit card payment on the seller's behalf and passing on the fees that the CC company charges (plus a bit for Paypal of course)

frivolous_fay

zappahey wrote:

I think you're missing the point. The ebay seller *is* the retailer and the ebay seller is paying fees that are similar to what other retailers pay to accept credit cards. Paypal is simply accepting the credit card payment on the seller's behalf and passing on the fees that the CC company charges (plus a bit for Paypal of course)

Fair point, but paypal fees are not made explicit to the buyer. If you pressed me, I wouldn't really be able to pin down exactly how much of my total sale price would go to paypal.