Great news. Ebay drops seller charges!

[Canuk]

I tend to find anyone who asks more than 2 questions about a normal everyday item = complete nutbar. Block em!

 

[bikeworkshop]

Like:

What colour is it mate?

 

[Betsy]

I think a lot of the 'offers' being sent are from ebay rather than the seller.. you don't have to be watching something anymore to receive an offer.. even if you just click on something an 'offer' will come through within 24hrs.. i think this is ebay removing the buyers fee and sending the offer for the sake of a sale.. hence why sellers have no recollection.

 

[Twozaskars]

I think a lot of the 'offers' being sent are from ebay rather than the seller.. you don't have to be watching something anymore to receive an offer.. even if you just click on something an 'offer' will come through within 24hrs.. i think this is ebay removing the buyers fee and sending the offer for the sake of a sale.. hence why sellers have no recollection.

That's a feature sellers can opt to use.

 

[bikeworkshop]

Opt to "not use" iirc its on by default initially

 

[Twozaskars]

I might check that then and turn it off.
Then again, it hardly matters if I was prepared to take that amount anyway.

 

[Betsy]

Yep.. when the offer comes through from ebay.. ebay are then incouraging you to make a counter-offer hence the low balls from folks who wouldn't have ordinarily made the offer prior to ebay's interaction.

 

[bikeworkshop]

I might check that then and turn it off.
Then again, it hardly matters if I was prepared to take that amount anyway.

If you accept offers, nobody wants to accept your advertised price, so you've lost immediate sales ime

 

[Twozaskars]

I guess if this is a feature that sellers have to turn off you do it for every listing individually? Every item I put on now, I have to set the despatch time and it also puts in the 'simple delivery'.
Say I'm selling a rear mech, I'll just pick out another listing and press 'sell similar', yet it still resets the postage and despatch time.

 

[Betsy]

I send all small items (under 2kg) out via RM48 .. the cost is £3.39, but now ebay has taken away my power of free will, it wants me to use RM 2nd Class without tracking for £3.75 .. so now i'm charging customers £3.75 for a terrible service and still sending them out fully tracked for £3.39

Oh well.. it's better than those halcyon days when you'd be shipping.. lets say a £500 / 10kg amp to Sweden and ebay would say.. "the maximum you're allowed to charge for shipping of this item is £7.95