ebay ups fees yet again....greedy greedy greedy

[Fulvio]

NOBODY will auction your coins for nothing.

ACF does.

I really don't understand why everyone doesn't offer stuff here first.

[runway]

I got an email from ebay today basically upping ebay fees. They are now going to charge FVF on postage. There suggestion of overcoming this it to not charge postage cost. I basically don't make a profit on postage. I essentially charge Aussie Post rates...now I have to pay a fee on something I make nothing on. It is obvious ebay is against sellers making a livelihood.

 I get a very small discount from my suppliers the Royal Australian Mint about 20%, Perth Mint about the same & Downies about 18%. I pay approx. 10% in paypal/ebay fees, essentially halving my profit margin. Now ebay says to me here is another 80c fee on a standard rate parcel or to avoid that here is a profit margin of zero on a $100 item by offering free postage.

Yes I can offer fee post on my Second Hand Goods. My experience however this does not increase FV prices to enough to cover postage costs, particularly so on small value items...say under $50.00, so I generally charge postage....which now is going to attract a fee. Ebay obviously does not care that a small business owner has to cover costs and that they are charging a fee that sellers will just have to absorb.
 
The online market can not be ignored. The cost of trading online is increasing because of greedy companies like ebay whilst the profit margins of retailers is decreasing. The evidence of this is the fact that the number of professional coin dealers in Australia has decreased severely over the last 10 years. This means that the buyers ability to walk into a shop is ever decreasing. This is very bad for the hobby as it means less new collectors enter the market. The flow on affect is a hobbiests collection is decreasing in value.

If you are a business that deals on ebay your pocket is getting lighter because of ebays greed. If you are a hobbiest you probably don't give a damn now but I can assure you will care later on when you don't get the returns you expect.

Ebays greed need to stop.

A very good topic and well said bigfella :wavemulticolor: