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You guys kill me.... it's an auction website.... an online auction house....
Auction houses charge a 10% fee. That's how the auction house makes money.
Ebay is nothing more than a digital auction house.
You wouldn't bitch if you too your shit to a Richie Brother's auction and they charged a fee...
Wow... Everything should be free for you, right?
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You could always try selling the items on Craigslist but you'll quickly realize that free is not always better. You'll ask a fair price of $100 for something and people will offer you $20 and some trident layers.
10% for running a website, and owning the preferred and recommended method of payment?
Spider restaurant for all the flies.
Egay used to be more friendly for both buyers and sellers 10 years ago.
Ok.... fine....Quote:
Originally Posted by Otterbatcat
YOU start the website, maintain the servers, and keep the whole thing going...
Then, you start the payment system, maintain the servers, the accounts,and contacts with Visa Mastercard American Express.....
Do you see what I'm getting at? Shit ain't cheap, bro.
Ask Trot or J or Marlin how much it costs to run this very small simple site... Then do the math on a complex and HUGE website like ebay and paypal....
Aren't you one of the ones that argued FOR capitalism? Yet, when it's a company you don't agree with, it's not ok?
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I agree that 10% is fair for an 'auction house', but eBay isn't one of those. With an auction house, you drop your shit off and they put it in a buyers hands. Then you get paid. With eBay, you do all of the work.
I don't mean to crap all over eBay. They provide a nice service. Like Otterbatcat said - they just used to be more reasonable.
I'll agree with that. They did gently caress you less a while back. But the only people to blame are the stores selling 100,000 products a week.Quote:
Originally Posted by jhood001
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What Ebay did, was shit on the little guy....you know...the very people that got that company off the ground and into Walmart Domination status.
They messed with FB and what the value of that FB was to a small seller. Doesn't matter if the buyer read the TOS and bid anyways, bitch and complain about the sellers performance, and your ratings went to shit, listings to the bottom of searches, and fees and fines for non performance.....freezing your PP account, and other total BS. Ebay has not wanted small sellers since around '08.
Ebay didn't start Paypal, they paid $1.5B for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by JM Ver. 2.0
I own a ski wax company and use eBay. I agree with you, but it has been a great avenue for me to get my biz going. I any for the day I can ditch it and go only retail or my own website. On that note my average sale is about $20 so I don't see as big of a hit to my $$$ also I price things to be sure I get what I want in profit.
I for one like getting paid in gum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave_L