15% FVF on eBay???? WTF?!?!?!

[ATLien69]

So I tried to relist a videogame that someone didn't pay for with a $25 BUY-IT-NOW price and the FVF comes out to $3.75?!?!?! 15%????? Are they kidding me???? What the hell is going on....eBay is out of control. I'm done with it, I am done...together with Paypal fees they now take away 25% of my sale for games, which is what I sell most... stop being such greedy pigs ebay for Gods sake. Unreal. Just unreal. Ok venting done.

[danman227460]

What can you do? Ebay and Paypal are the only big companies people trust online. It isn't like there is a new upcoming service that can replace or topple those 2. When you are alone at the top, you can charge whatever you want. I suggest you deal locally for games. Just post it in the Video Game for sale thread, all you have to do is waste some gas or a bus ticket. You end up getting way more in cash than you would selling on ebay.

[Impossibles]

I've only sold a couple things on ebay in the last few years.

http://pages.ebay.ca/help/sell/fees.html

15% for fixed price listings on the first $50+5% on the remainder, 8.75% for auction price listings.

I'm surprised they still get as many listings as they do.

Although I don't agree with people who get mad at ebay, its the sellers choice to list things on there.

[ZoomZoom2006]

yea, nothing you can do with ebay in North America rite now.

but, well, ebay has been outcompeted in Japan by Yahoo! and China by Alibaba; maybe, someday, we can see another company here to kick ebay's ass for the ridiculous FVF and other charges

[superbundance]

people in china sell for free on ebay... we end up paying for it.

Not fair.

[dmdsoftware2]

people in china sell for free on ebay... we end up paying for it.

Not fair.

?!?

[bluewaker]

To the above person: means that they don't pay fees to list or have their item sold.


Yeah, it's pretty facking ridiculous. I guess that's why we use craigslist or kijiji or go to specialized forums for these things and ship COD and stuff. eBay needs to have a reality check.

[zoro69]

ebay closed their chinese site altogether a couple years ago, any item from Chine is listed on one of the other country sites at the fees that site charges everyone else.

The fee break is going to volume sellers now, eg look up user "buy" on .com (wont show on .ca), who is believed to have free listings on their near 1 million listings. Also gave GM a special deal for cars. Their whole focus now is on attracting huge retailers, not the little guy selling his stuff at home

When china did have free listings it was only listings that were domestic china only, in chinese, that didn't show up outside china.

[ATLien69]

Seems like that is the case...when I list, I list at fair prices along with fair shipping and therefore I have any almost 100% success rate on buy-it-now items, so the FVF is what matters most...plus I only ever listed when it was 0.05 days for insertion, so all these fee changes impact me like crazy... High volume sellers on the other hand maybe have a 20-30% success rate, so the initial upfront insertion fee is what matters to them. Too bad e-bay has such a monopoly on the online auction market. It's a sad day indeed.



The fee break is going to volume sellers now, eg look up user "buy" on .com (wont show on .ca), who is believed to have free listings on their near 1 million listings. Also gave GM a special deal for cars. Their whole focus now is on attracting huge retailers, not the little guy selling his stuff at home

[DLFB]

its a place for buyers now, not for sellers.

You have tons of choices tho: RFD, craigs, kijiji, etc. None of those charges for selling fees.

I think I'm still going to sell some things on ebay but I just have to have a set price in mind. I'll calculate all fees that may occur after selling the item. By that, I get "money-back". Nothing sucks more than not knowing what you'll get charged for and how much.

and you guys can blame the new people running ebay. It'll fall if they keep on doing business like this.

Just remember people: you have a choice. nobody's forcing you to sell on ebay.

[zoro69]

BUY has a sub 1% sale rate...hence the importance of free listings.

The writing was on the wall with the law suits for fake clothes etc, and retail shipping prices going through the roof plus the rampant fraud so they are turfing the little sellers in favour of reliable giants.

[fudge_u]

If your selling games, then trying selling them on the Amazon.ca marketplace.

WG

[danibelo]

To explain the barbarian fees on eBay, you should take into account that many items sold on eBay by Americans are FREE (or almost free or better than free) for the sellers. I am not going to teach you how they do it, just a partial list: sales, promotions, rebates, coupons, gift cards, points, pricematch, priceprotection, rewards, multiple emails and addresses, freebies, refferals, stupid cashiers and so on. Using all these thngs together gives you a lot of free items, that you have to get rid of at any price. So even 15% or 25% will not stop those sellers.

[felix]

eBay fees went up again recently :

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/ca/200808200956332.html

[Kasakato]

Basically: eBay has archived a monopoly in Canada and can do whatever they want. Sounds like cellphones up here.

[ATLien69]

Bro this is exactly what we are discussing here! lol... they reduce the upfront cost by a few cents but raise the final value fee by a few dollars...hence the rant...

eBay fees went up again recently :

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/ca/200808200956332.html