Ebay always wins even when the seller loses........ Been seeking on their for over 15 years I think. I still list stuff on there but it is expensive to sell............the end of 2019 looks like the end for me selling on there. They are going to start auto charging tax on items sold in my state. No thanks. I don't want the exposure. They also want every one to convert to a different pay program. It's just not PayPal anymore......no thanks to that too. They also want me to become a store and sending me business loan offers...... No thanks. The good days of ebay have been gone for about a decade.
I called them today and spoke with a nice lady from India. I asked why I am being billed for $40.20 on 3 sold items totaling $45 with shipping. I listed a total of 9 items. They added $5 per item because I added a reserve price ($15ea. item). I asked if I could have just made the starting bid $15, was there a fee for that. She said no fee. So I asked how would it be any different? She didn't really understand. She did say they would wave the reserve fees and brought the bill down to $10.50. This is just like Sirius radio fees. Also Comcast cable. You tell them to cancel and they start offering discounts and specials. I really don't have time or tolerance for this BS.
I'm sorry to say that the due diligence is on you to keep track of the options you check when listing an auction or BIN. At the end of every auction listing, before you pull the trigger, it shows how much it will cost to list it. And the fees for the sold item are dependent on the type of listing and the category. Let's say I have a magazine to sell. Do I list it under the books heading? Collectibles? eBay Motors? I can play around and see what is most beneficial for me. It takes time, and then there's the post office to contend with (I sell a magazine for $5 and charge $4 shipping and the cost to send it ends up being more, and I am left with a small profit after the PayPal fees), but I am the one responsible for how I conduct my business and use the medium.
I don’t see how that’s possible. eBay is 10% fee on the final value and 10% on the shipping. The shipping part sucks but now people can’t charge $1 for the item and $99 shipping and skip out on fees. I sell things on eBay still but it’s almost always things I don’t “care” about meaning I didn’t pay much for it or anything at all.
Read the fine print before you choose to sell and learn how to conduct more precise searches if you want to buy. I personally don't understand all the moaning. I find great stuff on Ebay all the time, but not every time. I will say that it has become much more difficult for sellers over the past several years. I am mostly a buyer these days.
I buy things all the time on ebay. Not too many cars parts but I have other hobbies and it has been great over the years for acquiring hard to find items at usually good prices. Anything you need, want or are looking for, will show up on ebay sooner or later. I have been buying on ebay for over twenty years and have bought hundreds of items and have only had two bad transactions. One, I never received the item, but I believe the seller sent it and it just got lost in the mail. It was only $10-$15 so it wasn't the end of the world. And two, an item I received came from the Czech Republic instead of Florida (as the location was listed in the ad) and it was not the same item that was in the ad. I have not sold on ebay in about fifteen years so I am not aware of the changes in selling fees.
Yet on their questions and policy sight they claim it's a bad thing for bidders and buyer's to wait to the last possible second?? They say to report unethical buyers but what for as I doubt they will do a thing.
Your right, it's the way auctions work.. but there was alot more to a issue I had with a buyer, long long story short I was weary of a buyer and and talked to Ebay reps and Paypal reps and they agreed and told me to block him. 3 more separate accounts showed up to bid and all had the same address. All the 3 accounts with this same address bid within a minutes of each other in the last minutes of the sell.
Yes I realize it's on me, thanks mom. So I'm expected to just pay $40 on $45 sales? I don't think so. I have not sold on Ebay for a couple years and foolishly thought they were still reasonable. I did not put a reserve price on initially thinking the items were popular enough that there bidding would get to what I was looking to get for them. I panicked when I saw nobody bidding on my items (waiting until the last minute) and after the fact added a reserve price. Had I done that at the start I would have seen how high the fees were and not done it. I have found out now to enter a starting bid of the least I will take for the item. There is no fee for this although it is really the same thing as a reserve. PGSS, there are services people use to enter bids for them at the last possible second. That could be why you found the same accounts. While you have a 7 day auction the first 6 days, 23 hours and 58 minutes are just so people can find your item. The auction really just lasts for minutes.
I really don't think auctions on ebay are beneficial for a seller these days. Not enough audience. I myself run a 30 day listing and put a price or best offer. You can decide if it's a good enough amount before you accept. That runs .35 after your free initial 50 items.
Whether you get internet from a provider or you only use it on the phone, you are using the Internet. Your phone company is your provider. If you get rid of the Internet, your phone becomes... a phone and nothing else. You can't download apps or use GPS without jumping through some serious hoops.
Yet you missed my point: How you sell determines how much of a cut they take. You made the mistake of continuing where you left off, and realized the hard way the medium had changed. I don't think any of us would have done any differently, FWIW.
A friend of mine states that the total number of vehicles for sale on eBay dropped from a peak of roughly 250000 at any given time, in the mid 00’s to less than 30000 today. If the system doesn’t produce results the customers will go elsewhere. Have two contacts that are still regular sellers but they both do it full time and don’t have “regular” jobs to manage.
