Has Ebay a rule on Collection and Admistration charges by the seller?

isayoldchap

Can a seller list an item for say 0.01 and ask for £10 collection or administration charge.Has Ebay a link on this where we can get more information?

soolin

It's called fee avoidance and will get your auction pulled if reported. Too many pulled auctions equals a suspended account.

motorguy

isayoldchap wrote: »

Can a seller list an item for say 0.01 and ask for £10 collection or administration charge.Has Ebay a link on this where we can get more information?

Is that an extreme example or have you actually seen that happen? Any item numbers?

If i was selling, say a reasonably priced item and i was a business, there would still be an overhead in having an item picked up - staffing, storage, etc, so i could see why people would do that - personally i dont, but i dont think its beyond reason.

Also ebay does give you the option to charge for local pickup

Dave_Brooker

pgilc1 wrote: »

Also ebay does give you the option to charge for local pickup

Making people pay to collect themselves would be a bit of a liberty, would it not?

aeuerby

I would have thought a business would build into the price that they sell the item for the cost of overheads rather than charge a collection fee.

motorguy

Dave_Brooker wrote: »

Making people pay to collect themselves would be a bit of a liberty, would it not?

For the reasons i gave, then no i dont think thats necessarily the case.

Say you're running a small business (which i am), that sells off excess stock etc on ebay (which i do), then if someone says they want to come and pick it up say a second hand laptop they've bought

(a) i have to ensure i am physically there (affecting my work schedule)
(b) they will maybe be there 10-15 mins (time)
(c) they may want to pay by cheque (risk)
(d) they may want to pay by credit card (2.25% cost)
(e) they may want to pick up outside my normal working hours (inconvenience)
(f) they may take several days to pick it up (storage)
(g) they may not turn up

Now i dont actually charge for local pickup, but i can see why people would.

motorguy

aeuerby wrote: »

I would have thought a business would build into the price that they sell the item for the cost of overheads rather than charge a collection fee.

And you can do that in an ebay auction how?

withabix

a) set a starting price
b) set a reserve price
c) use fixed-price buy-it-now
d) use 'make an offer'

Dave_Brooker

pgilc1 wrote: »

For the reasons i gave, then no i dont think thats necessarily the case.

Say you're running a small business (which i am), that sells off excess stock etc on ebay (which i do), then if someone says they want to come and pick it up say a second hand laptop they've bought

(a) i have to ensure i am physically there (affecting my work schedule)
(b) they will maybe be there 10-15 mins (time)
(c) they may want to pay by cheque (risk)
(d) they may want to pay by credit card (2.25% cost)
(e) they may want to pick up outside my normal working hours (inconvenience)
(f) they may take several days to pick it up (storage)
(g) they may not turn up

Now i dont actually charge for local pickup, but i can see why people would.

I think the general idea is that you factor your costs into your selling price.

If you hit them with a load of spurious charges your customers might well dry up fairly quickly...

motorguy

withabix wrote: »

a) set a starting price
b) set a reserve price
c) use fixed-price buy-it-now
d) use 'make an offer'

... and then not sell anything.

aeuerby

pgilc1 wrote: »

And you can do that in an ebay auction how?

By starting the bidding at the minimum amount you will accept.