bikeworkshop
Old School Grand Master
Who'd you use for frames under a tenner? Parcelforce?
If you're a business seller then:
Ebay charge 14%on selling price
... but they allow you to charge your own postage amount, and choose your own courier
Great news. Ebay drops seller charges!
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Who'd you use for frames under a tenner? Parcelforce?
If you're a business seller then:
Ebay charge 14%on selling price
... but they allow you to charge your own postage amount, and choose your own courier
Twozaskars
Senior Retro Guru
Send.parcelforce.comWho'd you use for frames under a tenner? Parcelforce?
If you're a business seller then:
Ebay charge 14%on selling price
... but they allow you to charge your own postage amount, and choose your own courier
9.65 collected, if we're working anywhere where one of the depots is on-route then I sometimes print my own label and drop them off, saves a bit, drop off at post office actually costs more now.
Ok, cherry on the ebay cake.
If you send internationally, the GSP contractor (Pitney Bowes) can confiscate your item without any good reasons.
When you sign up for GSP, the T&Cs state that you agree to them doing it: that is, seller retains his cash, buyer gets a refund from ebay and Pitney Bowes owns the item that then gets re-listed by their ebay agent.
If they reckon that item sold well below market price, they pocket it and then re-list at a much higher asking price.
I found out the hard way.
If you send internationally, the GSP contractor (Pitney Bowes) can confiscate your item without any good reasons.
When you sign up for GSP, the T&Cs state that you agree to them doing it: that is, seller retains his cash, buyer gets a refund from ebay and Pitney Bowes owns the item that then gets re-listed by their ebay agent.
If they reckon that item sold well below market price, they pocket it and then re-list at a much higher asking price.
I found out the hard way.
Twozaskars
Senior Retro Guru
We have got to see this!
What was the item?
Doesn't bother me personally but interesting all the same...
What was the item?
Doesn't bother me personally but interesting all the same...
Google "Pitney Bowes is wrongly stealing purchased goods." 
I really don't understand the point...Clearly they spot expensive items that were sold below market value, confiscate them and then resell them above market value, but surely this can be done just by buying directly from ebay sellers...I guess here they can put through a large accounting charge for "liquidation costs" and dodge tax.
Or, you spot a gold-plated colnago frame incorrectly listed as some old cr@p in Italy. Buy it at £50. Pitney spot it in their chain and confiscate it.
Seller gets his £50, you get your £50 back, Pitney keep a £2k frame.
I really don't understand the point...Clearly they spot expensive items that were sold below market value, confiscate them and then resell them above market value, but surely this can be done just by buying directly from ebay sellers...I guess here they can put through a large accounting charge for "liquidation costs" and dodge tax.
Or, you spot a gold-plated colnago frame incorrectly listed as some old cr@p in Italy. Buy it at £50. Pitney spot it in their chain and confiscate it.
Seller gets his £50, you get your £50 back, Pitney keep a £2k frame.
Twozaskars
Senior Retro Guru
I wish I'd thought of it 
That said, looking at it from a buyer point of view that's bad.
Edit: I can't believe I'd never even heard of this happening. I've been using the GSP for years (but only selling, not buying) so I don't know how this has never appeared on my radar.
That said, looking at it from a buyer point of view that's bad.
Edit: I can't believe I'd never even heard of this happening. I've been using the GSP for years (but only selling, not buying) so I don't know how this has never appeared on my radar.
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