The madness of Ebay

DayDreamer said:
Wow it sure does make you think :eek:
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Certainly does, I had a phone to sell earlier in the year, they were going for around £400 on ebay, after plugging the numbers into that calculator I'd have gotten about £330 of that. Shocker.
 
ronnus said:
This fee calculator convinced me to stop selling on ebay... It's very sobering to know in advance how much they'll take off you.

http://ecal.altervista.org/en/fee_calculator/ebay.co.uk/
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It's not always in advance either.
I had an email half way through selling my 5D II a while back to say that the selling fee had been increased to 10% and my item was in one of their categories affected.
I ended early and sold on here eventually.

As for the postage prices it's not just ebay.
You try returning something even reasonably valuable to Amazon and get a decent type of delivery to cover it within their refund "estimates" :cuckoo:
 
James Thomas 75 said:
It's not always in advance either.
I had an email half way through selling my 5D II a while back to say that the selling fee had been increased to 10% and my item was in one of their categories affected.
I ended early and sold on here eventually.

As for the postage prices it's not just ebay.
You try returning something even reasonably valuable to Amazon and get a decent type of delivery to cover it within their refund "estimates, " :cuckoo:
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This pretty much sums up eBay IMHO... Glad you got it sold, but to change the goalposts mid-listing is pathetic. No idea where eBay is going but for me it's a useful curiosity at best these days...

EDIT: oh and yeah, I've never had an amazon return come in at what they guesstimate, but they've always refunded :)
 
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James Thomas 75 said:
It's not always in advance either.
I had an email half way through selling my 5D II a while back to say that the selling fee had been increased to 10% and my item was in one of their categories affected.
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Not being an eBay apologist, but it didn't quite happen like that.

eBay announce the last increase on the 8th of June and it only started on the 10th July (dates from the notification email that eBay sent out).

They gave over a months notice of the day the fees were increasing, while I also feel the fees are expensive, it didn't quite happen overnight.
 
ronnus said:
This pretty much sums up eBay IMHO... Glad you got it sold, but to change the goalposts mid-listing is pathetic. No idea where eBay is going but for me it's a useful curiosity at best these days...

EDIT: oh and yeah, I've never had an amazon return come in at what they guesstimate, but they've always refunded :)
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Amazon are very good with their returns and refund policy I'll give them that.
The item I had to return was a book with a torn cover and pages. Then again the price to post books is bloody madness anyway :D
 
James Thomas 75 said:
Amazon are very good with their returns and refund policy I'll give them that.
The item I had to return was a book with a torn cover and pages. Then again the price to post books is bloody madness anyway :D
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Heh that's true ;-) I was returning a Fuji X10 from a marketplace (but Fulfilled By Amazon) seller due to having a Euro charger that wasn't disclosed... To be fair they accepted it back after I'd spent a while fiddling and a few hundred shots, and sent me a new one immediately from their own stock. Can't complain :-)
 
You do see some odd things, I have an old C765 Olympus in good working order but needs a battery so considered getting one, the prices on ebay ranged from £3.99 to over £100.
The genuine Olympus one can be had for around £40 - too much for an old camera but some of the prices quoted are so far out of line that I wondered if it wasn't for a real article but some sort of automatically generated ad responding to search term (but then you might look at their other items?)

Always worth checking as a minimum that Amazon can't match or better the ebay going rates.
 
It's an auction site, you pay fees to sell at auction just as you do at a real auction.
Use Paypal and you pay them fees just as a shop pays fees for credit card use.

Just factor the fees into the price and set a Buy It Now at price you want, done.

I use it as it is far less hassle than using other methods. List item, usually sold within a day or two, get immediate payment (I use Buy It Now with Immediate payment box checked) and send to buyer next day on way to work. No hassle and get the price I want.
 
I can't understand anyone getting something from eBay for price close to the new price, truly madness, no redress or guarantee on the goods bought.
My theory revolves around making cash or fraudulent card payments for the goods that are not traceable.
 
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