Ebay Gift Cards - warning

[ausproofs]

Thanks Jeff ... Yes I will be speaking to ACCC and Fair Trading regarding this ... I will let you all know what happens.

[runway]

ACCC and Fair Trading won't do anything about eBay

[Basil]

I listed a few items Today and was charged 'listing feés' for the first time in years.They must have re-introduced them to coincide with Quicksales closing down.
I hope they get some credible competition in OZ. in the years ahead,just too greedy and overbearing as far as ordinary sellers go.
I used to support their attitude/Business model as it was still much cheaper than the overpriced Ads in the Age or SMH classifieds,but not any more.

[JeffH]

Did you get the 4 Days Only: Unlimited Free Listings offer?

Go to the bottom of your "All Selling" page and check the "Promotional Offers" section. They have been having a lot of free or reduced fee offers lately (although some have not been any good to us). Overall it has saved us quite a bit in fees, especially when they have had No Final Fee offers.

[Basil]

Did you get the 4 Days Only: Unlimited Free Listings offer?

Go to the bottom of your "All Selling" page and check the "Promotional Offers" section. They have been having a lot of free or reduced fee offers lately (although some have not been any good to us). Overall it has saved us quite a bit in fees, especially when they have had No Final Fee offers.

Thanks Jeff,i did get that offer but i haven't paid listing/insertion fees for years,Today is the first time.

[JeffH]

We likewise haven't paid insertion fees for a long while*. Their fee schedule for a non store seller still says "We give you 40 free listings each month. This covers your insertion fee...".
Just checked and we weren't charged any insertion fees for items we listed on Sunday.

Might be worth querying in case they keep doing it to you.

*With the exception of the very occasional month when we might actually have more than 40 listings but that is not often.

[jens coins]

Also keep an eye out when you sell items as ebay have been charging me more than the 10.9% for final value fees.
They say it is a computer error but don't do anything unless you contact them to say they have overcharged you.
As soon as I contact them they refund the difference.

[JeffH]

They are a bit like the banks; all the computer glitches, procedural errors and such seem to go in their favour.

[runway]

eBay are going down the drain in Australia which is why these grubs are doing promotions
In Canada and USA eBay are now minnows ,simply put most people use other sites to buy and sell

[Ozcoins]

Re ebay (and others)...
Why do people in charge so often take "the goose that lays the golden eggs" and mistreat/kill them!?!
How stupid do you have to be?

[runway]

The problem with eBay Australia is simple ... they host too many crooks selling off shed job coins and make it near impossible to report the item specifically as fraud

[Basil]

Yeah,that's a major problem,i have trouble picking many of the Chinese fakes these days,it will ruin the Vintage Coin industry eventually so you would think it would be in Ebay's interest to come down hard on the fakes/replica's.
Trademe is listed on the ASX as well as NZ so i would say they have plans to start up in Oz. eventually and with the sudden spike in the share price someone may have inside Info.
I posted last year that a friend of my Niece's applied for a job with a recruitment Co. that was hiring for a "new and exciting online market place", nothing more has come of it  but something is brewing.

Edit...

https://www.asx.com.au/asx/share-price-research/company/TME

[JeffH]

Bring on TradeMe to Australia I say. I have bought from New Zealand using that site and it is very much a community, like eBay used to be; only better.

[runway]

Bring on TradeMe to Australia I say. I have bought from New Zealand using that site and it is very much a community, like eBay used to be; only better.

Great site JeffH It's a real pity greedBay bought out one of my old favourite sites Sold.com  :@