will this work to eliminate ebays criminal seller shipping fee

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will this work to eliminate ebays criminal seller shipping fee

will this work to eliminate ebays criminal seller ship fee
say you have a control panel for $10
and shipping is $20
instead of listing it that way and getting hit for fee's on $30 (triple the correct fee)
what if you list it as local pickup only, but then in the ad text mention
ups fed ex grnd avail
and just charge the buyer shipping after the sale with no mention of it in the ad or text other than above, and you click the local pickup option as well
(ebays policy on charging fee's on sellers shipping is criminal, we should all look for ways to avoid it, and it should be investigated by class action lawyers and ftc.)
 
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wasn't adding fees to seller's shipping only in response to the numerous sellers inflating their shipping prices in order to weasel out of the regular fees?
 
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at a min. what they should have done as a better solution to the problem was to grant an fee exemption for ea. item by the pounds, as eg.
1st pound you get $10 fee exemption (not included in fee calcs.)
2nd lb you get $4 fee exemp
3rd lb you get $3
4th = 2.00
and every 1 after = $2

(for this eg, a 15 lb control panel would be exempt from any ebay shipping fees for up to $31 usa shipping)
could be x2 canadian, , x4 intl.

with the seller filling out aprox how many lbs the item is, and have it part of feedback that if a seller gets more than say 6 of something like "way off on the lbs" rating
ebay would say only give you half credit for exemptions, and then get another 6 and then get no credit, they should have done some thing like that but the 20,000 mba's over there could not figure some thing like this out.

how it is now is criminal and wont stand, and i think its illegal to charge for something they have no involvement with at all
 
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since they've started killing guys on shipping I would like it to add to my ebay bucks when I pay for the shipping as well.

which I imagine it doesn't. So I buy something for $1 and $200 shipping, I get credit on my ebay buck earnings on the $1, but the seller pays fees on the whole $201.
 
r5g. your special and do a great job and everything. and they should make an exception for arcade. but, your loseing this battle. i hate to say. to many people screwing over other's, on shipping. and tronguy you dont see to many auction's where it's 1 dollar and 200 dollar's or more shiping. it's virtually destroyed them. as it should have.
 
r5g. your special and do a great job and everything. and they should make an exception for arcade. but, your loseing this battle. i hate to say. to many people screwing over other's, on shipping. and tronguy you dont see to many auction's where it's 1 dollar and 200 dollar's or more shiping. it's virtually destroyed them. as it should have.

I think my point was missed.

THey are now deducting fees from sellers for shipping costs, but they are not giving credit to the buyers (who get ebay bucks, maybe everyone does) for the same shipping that they are deducting fees for.
 
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i dont advocate and never have the old trick of selling an item at $1 and shipping at $200
that is wrong
my idea a few posts up addresses that and gives the seller of heavy but not valueable items a fair shake in that now a seller of $10 item with $20 ship is getting hit with triple fee's, with my idea, the seller only pays fee's on $10 which is the way it should be.

and at same time some one can still list a $1 item with $200 ship, but they only get exempted a certain amount of the shipping (based on pounds of item) so this person will be paying on most of the 200 shipping as fee which is again the way it should be, so this old trick would not work with fee avoidance, which was the whole point of what they were trying to do.
 
its a double edge sword, in my expereince things like this on ebay eventually get modified rather quickly etc, to suit individual targets etc. It is possible that ebay in the future exempt arcade games etc.
But if you ask me they are atacking the problem wrong, they seem to be on the look out for there fees instead of looking after the buyers getting screwed....
 
I don't care about the additional fees for shipping at this point.

My gripe is that buyers STILL complain on shipping that IS cheaper than expected and expect even CHEAPER shipping. ESPECIALLY on International stuff and they act like they know the shipping better than you, not taking dimensional weight or zones (domestic) into consideration.

I sold a KI board on ebay and wanted to charge $30 shipping as he wanted extra protection, etc. He insisted the whole setup he wanted would be no less than $20 with all the padding because he "ships things 100s of times a year" so I tell him I am pretty sure it will be $30 and he says $20. Turns out it was $37.50 because of dimensional weight. When I ask for MY shipping money that I PAID back he is like, what? That is the problem I have with buyers. Just right now someone trying to complain about $15 shipping for 5 games in a box to Italy.....
 
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i am surprised at the number of buyers and sellers on ebay who "dont care about the fee on shipping or support it"

it will lead to significantly higher prices for large items that are not worth much, or the total absence of them from ebay

eg. before they started charging shipping fee, i might have listed control panel for pac man at 9.99 start with 18.00 ship fee, and i would not have cared if it went for 9.99

with the way it is now, if i even sell such an item on ebay, it will be $20.00 start, and 25.00 shipping. so how can the community not care about this set of changes, as everything will cost more as sellers realize they must increase the start bid and shipping in the auctions to make up for 300% increase in fees for large not very valuable items
 
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occupy ebay

lets occupy ebay!!! what we do is all agree on a date and blast them with hundreds of emails about the shipping.. you never know. it could have an effect with so many in one day.
 
i closed my accounts on ebay awhile back, by the time u pay fees ship and add everything up, u are giving it away (most of the time).
they really dont want the small time sellers. we are just a big pain in the ass for them.
they want sellers with thousands of listings.
everybody complains about shipping.
it is $33 priority mail to ship a record out of the usa.
i just put in my ad 'dont agree with the shipping then dont bid!"
then ebay started in on me about it.
i now sell on gemm.com and ebid.net instead
 
The local pickup approach isn't a bad idea for large items or if you are only an occasional seller. In the long run you'll have some buyer complain to eBay, or eBay will flag it. For what its worth, both sides of this issue have merit. If folks weren't trying to beat eBay out of their final valuation fees then eBay wouldn't have instituted this. Yes, it sucks having to pass everything into the buyer, and higher starting and shipping prices mean fewer bids. On the other hand, listing fees are pretty much gone, so that means you can list alot more with no risk.
 
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