Oz Round Table

It is curious how all the little quirks you find along the way seem to always lean towards the maximising of fee charges.

Adding postage into the final value fee calculation was a bit rich - but I can understand why they did that.  I'm just waiting for them to start charging FVF on postage for pickup items....


EBay has done one thing out of paranoia that is actually costing them sales.  My seller friend had a recent situation where they were going out of their way to help a Buyer (who didn't have a lot of experience or confidence with eBay) sort out multiple purchases for a combined invoice, to save the buyer on shipping costs.  From what I can gather about the exchange, I suspect eBay may have been filtering messages.

That is a great way to put Buyers off - and to have Sellers bear the brunt of the Buyer's displeasure.  Such a rich reward for the Seller who was spending so much time helping their customer.

Which reminds me ... there is talk of eBay forcing Immediate Payment for all items under $1,000 - so say goodbye to a lot of sales where a customer might want multiple purchases under a single lot of postage - UNLESS - that seller can set up "rules" for the shopping cart that will allow for automatic calculation.  It's a bit hard to do that when you sell items varying from the size of a business card to a small overnight bag and where half of the packages can go at letter rates - when eBay thinks everything is a parcel.

So ... what was the question....?

So Ebay iS up to their old tricks

Oh, right .... It seems so.

My money is on the eBay shopping cart.  I've seen it before.

There are a couple of qualifications, but mostly PayPal just uses whatever eBay provides.

Tello, you DID read all that!

Its when you use payapl topay.
It decides the postage
Honest sellers often refund some of the postage
However ebay   base their charges on the amount plus postage
the seller can claim a refund from refunded postage but it makes  extra work for them