Free Listing on ebay in Holland, Belgium and France yet wa still have to pay

vinylmusic

This is another example of "Rip-off Britain"

In Holland, Belgium and France listing on Ebay is free and they pay 8% comission of the Final Value

Here in the UK for the same service we pay between 10p and £1.30 per item depending on what it is and the starting price
Then we pay 10% of the final value.

I suggest that every ebay seller complain to ebay about this unfairness.

A Solution.

List on the Duch, Belgian or French sites.
The only drawbacks can be.
An understanding of French or Dutch (Use Google Translate)
Get paid in Euros (These an be transferred to GBP within Paypal)

Holland: www.ebay.nl
Belgium (french or flemmish): www.ebay.be
France: www.ebay.fr
There are no rules against using these sites. You an use your registered username and password


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soolin

On eBay .com even businesses get a certain number of free listings a month.

However I don' t quite follow why it is unfair that each country has its own rules, or do you want PayPal only as is enforced on eBay.com in many categories?

I' m extremely happy that we are all unique, it would be boring if we we all the same..

By all means sell on other sites, it is allowed and I do sell on eBay.com. just remember to abide by their rules and all the individual return policy and postage caps of course.

soolin

Oh and remember German laws are stricter than ours , this site although a bit old is useful,
http://www.toytowngermany.com/lofi/index.php/t42904-90.html

Crowqueen

soolin wrote: »

On eBay .com even businesses get a certain number of free listings a month.

However I don' t quite follow why it is unfair that each country has its own rules, or do you want PayPal only as is enforced on eBay.com in many categories?

I' m extremely happy that we are all unique, it would be boring if we we all the same..

By all means sell on other sites, it is allowed and I do sell on eBay.com. just remember to abide by their rules and all the individual return policy and postage caps of course.

Adding to this, selling on the other sites would mean your Domestic postage cost will be postage to the country whose site you are selling on and having to list postage to the UK as international postage.

soolin

Crowqueen wrote: »

Adding to this, selling on the other sites would mean your Domestic postage cost will be postage to the country whose site you are selling on and having to list postage to the UK as international postage.

Yes, always worth mentioning. I would also add, especialy when listing on ebay.com, that you cannot say too many times that you are in Britain.The UK./ England etc, they tend to think if it is on ebay.com then you are there on mainland US and stuff can be sent for next day.

Lots and lots of postage caps on ebay.com though so a number of things are really uneconomic as when postage is going to cost say £11 and you are capped to $3 it starts to build up the FVFs a bit.

Oh and on ebay.com it costs extra to list for 10 days- so I vote against having all sites the same please.

soolin

Also I would add that on France Cassified type ads get higher ranking than standard auctions and BINs.

RFW

They really aren't like for like comparisons, Ebay markets are very different across the world. In the UK we are lucky to have a strong Ebay with a large customer base. There are countries with higher listing fees and/or higher final value fees and many with no discounts and seller incentives.

vinylmusic

soolin wrote: »

Also I would add that on France Cassified type ads get higher ranking than standard auctions and BINs.

Yes I also forgot to mention that Classified ads on the french site are 100% free

http://annonces.ebay.fr/myads"]http://annonces.ebay.fr/myads
Same in Belgium
http://pages.befr.ebay.be/help/sell/adformatfees.html
except for services which cost 1 euro

RFW

vinylmusic wrote: »

Yes I also forgot to mention that Classified ads on the french site are 100% free

http://annonces.ebay.fr/myads"]http://annonces.ebay.fr/myads
Same in Belgium
http://pages.befr.ebay.be/help/sell/adformatfees.html
except for services which cost 1 euro

Ebay own Gumtree in the UK which is free classified ads.

Crowqueen

Having free listings here would just encourage unregistered businesses and people uploading unsellable tat. On eBid when I was buying stamps I was discouraged by people listing single stamps which they thought might be worth selling but in reality were worthless - not even worth the 50p asking price.

A nominal fee means that people have to think hard about what they list.

vinylmusic

RFW wrote: »

Ebay own Gumtree in the UK which is free classified ads.

I know about Gumtree but that doesn't have the same kind of coverage and it's more for local sales

Ebay bought Gumtree in 2005 and my guess is their aim was to stifle competition. I'm surprised they haven't made a lot of changes to it since then but they don't appear to have promoted it in a big way

For free classifieds there's also Vivastreet and Preloved

http://www.vivastreet.co.uk
http://preloved.co.uk

I occasionally sell on all of them. Usually large items that can be awkward and pricey to send by post
They are a good way to sell locally