New Ebay fees, 50% higher, will it drive up prices or drive away sellers?

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What will Ebay fee increase do to figure pricing?

  • Make them go up

    Votes: 38 63.3%
  • no change but reduce sellers profit (or increase loses)

    Votes: 18 30.0%
  • make them go up because of reduced inventory on ebay

    Votes: 4 6.7%

  • Total voters
    60
I wonder if there isn't a "correlation =/= causation" deal going on there though. Guys with high volume sales would be more customer friendly and would do stuff like that, bending over backwards for customers to the extent possible even if only in a symbolic way. They would also have more professional operations so the percentage of returns would be lower than skeptical seller of stuff in his garage. I could be wrong though.

To my fellow sellers, one bit of advice if you weren't aware to protect yourself against problem buyers. On "Account" "Site Preferences" "Selling Preferences" "Buyer Requirements," you can restrict who can bid on your stuff. I use all of these:

Don't have a PayPal account
Have received 2 Unpaid Item strike(s) within 1 Month(s)
Have a primary shipping address in a location I don't ship to
Have 4 Policy Violation report(s) within 1 Month(s)
Have a feedback score of -1 or lower
Are currently winning or have bought 10 of my items in the last 10 days and have a feedback score of 5 or lower
 
I'd like to address this. When a case is opened on eBay, Paypal automatically takes the money from the seller's account and holds it. If the seller has taken the funds out of their paypal account and moved them somewhere else, then Paypal obviously can't do this, but then they have other ways of making sure sellers don't scam and run, which I can't talk about (I don't want to get sued by eBay for sharing internal information haha, I'm only sharing information that I was allowed to share while I was working there, so it's general info).

About the "no returns" policy. This is something I had A LOT of sellers fight me over. When a seller says "no returns", that just means no returns due to buyer's remorse. Since you're selling on eBay's site, you have to play under their rules. The reason eBay's return policy supersedes a seller's return policy is because if a crappy seller put "no returns" on their auction, then sent a buyer a rotten banana instead of an iPhone, then eBay needs to be able to step in and fix that. Some sellers would give me the line, "Well it's MY auction, I don't care about your policy on returns!" But sellers need to understand that eBay can't just sit on their hands and allow bad sellers to scam buyers.

If eBay asks a buyer to return an item, they have...hmm, I think it's ten days, to do so. If a buyer doesn't return the item, then they don't get the refund. I wish I could share more information about all this with you guys, but like I said, I obviously can't be going around the internet sharing information that could give people tips and ideas on how to scam eBay and other eBay users. Sometimes, I wish I could, because I can see how frustrating some stuff on eBay is. The worst part is, I can't even utilize my knowledge of eBay's inner workings to get free stuff, because I'd eventually get caught and it would NOT be worth it haha. But sometimes I'll be looking on the site, and I'll see an auction and think, "Man, I could TOTALLY get that item for free..." :thud:

I've read about people running schemes and getting stuff free on eBay. My main problem is eBay is an auction site but badly wants to be a store. Maybe it is more of a store now. I don't know the percentage of buy it now vs auctions on site. If you are selling/flipping new items then I could see having a return policy and stuff. But for people selling old, unwanted items. Then it's crazy. But I was open about the condition of stuff I used to sell. I wasn't trying to rip people off. And people could have ripped me off easily at times. So I was lucky.

A little fun "fact" (in quotes because I don't know for sure that it's true) for you all, though. We were always told at eBay that sellers who accept returns, as opposed to those who mark "no returns", generally make more sales and have fewer cases opened against them. It wouldn't surprise me.

It wouldn't surprise me. That's what I look for on sellers when I buy new items. I look at what they are selling too. If they are a store vs if they are a flipper.
 
For some reason, I thought the seller fee was 10% for a while now? :confused:

That's basically how I decided if it was worth to sell on eBay versus, like, here. If I paid $200 for a figure, and no one here was biting, I'd list it on eBay for $220ish.
 
For some reason, I thought the seller fee was 10% for a while now? :confused:

That's basically how I decided if it was worth to sell on eBay versus, like, here. If I paid $200 for a figure, and no one here was biting, I'd list it on eBay for $220ish.

You didn't count the paypal charges, you should add 5% on top so it should be 15% !
 
What exactly was their reasoning for upping the price so much? Seems like a pretty blatant cash grab
 
Nothing you can do- many other auction sites have tried for years to compete but all failed..Ebay gets the biggest audience by far. Just try to save $$$ on your auction sells for the monthly Ebay hit from your account...
 
I've just put up a ton of auctions.
Apparently the new higher fees results in a flood of emails along the lines of 'hey would you be willing to take this offline and sell it cash to avoid the ebay fees'

One guy actually stated it: "What is the absolute lowest you'd be willing to sell this offline"

Well sure, let me avoid 10% fees by giving it to you at 50% off....
 
* mental note to self: next time offer SAB at least 70% of the listed price

lulz


Most everything ended up selling.
Though the 2 Premium Formats that didn't immediately got emails asking if I'd be willing to sell offline at almost 50% under starting bid price I listed ...... and I wasn't treating these as rare collectibles, my starting bid was already under retail and half what other equivalent auctions are.

Ebay would be so easy to deal with if it weren't for the buyers :)
 
Ebay would be so easy to deal with if it weren't for the buyers :)

Or at the very least, an eBay where every buyer also had to have sold at least ten things, so everyone knows how annoying buyers can be. And this way hopefully when they are a buyer, they won't ask stupid questions or be jackasses.
 
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