Ebay fees on postage - Is this legal

ballisticbrian

No - they are not a monopoly. They are acting, however, with very little downward pressure on their prices. Time will tell how it will play out. If they start to *act* like a monopoly, it could eventually attract the attention of governments like Microsoft did. All these large powerful companies seem to go down the same self destruct route.

caprikid1

Sellers caused Ebay to put Fee's on postage.

Sellers selling items for 10p with £5.90 postage.

Reality was these were £5 items which cost £1 for P&P.

To stop this Ebay charge seller fees across the lot. They can do what they like its not illegal and its sellers who are at fault for it happening. Sellers defrauding ebay of their fees.

lovinituk

caprikid1 wrote: »

Sellers caused Ebay to put Fee's on postage.

Sellers selling items for 10p with £5.90 postage.

Reality was these were £5 items which cost £1 for P&P.

To stop this Ebay charge seller fees across the lot. They can do what they like its not illegal and its sellers who are at fault for it happening. Sellers defrauding ebay of their fees.

This is spot on.

jclc

lejog2003 wrote: »

How about reading ballisticbrian's post correctly? You don't know what other sellers (heaven forbid perhaps less virtuous than yourself) have added to their prices to cover postage if free postage is offered.

This is meandering way off-topic so I'm out of this one.

Point taken- although I did say in my post it's not always obvious that sellers overcharge.
I think most buyers are like myself though - they don't bother looking at the individual item and postage costs, but just take the total combined amount and decide if that's what the item is worth - and hence prepared to pay.