Great news. Ebay drops seller charges!

[d8mok]

You can still edit the postage positions to whatever price you want. Under custom postage.

 

[Canuk]

Was there not someone on RB years ago who was seriously considering setting up a sales site for vintage gear and bikes with reasonable fee structures? It's probably a good time to do it now, that eBay and the rest of those tech giants are on the backfoot

 

[Canuk]

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.

I'm pretty sure there's a global setting to turn off counter offers. I cannot be arsed with low ball offers so I never have that feature 'on'

 

[Betsy]

As @M_Chavez said a few pages back.. even if offers are turned off.. if folks engage you in conversation, your reply as a seller or a buyer comes with the ability to send offer attached.

Eg.. Buyer
Hi Bikeworkshop, is your bike red?

Bikeworkshop
Hi, yes it is
Click 'Reply' or 'Reply With Offer'

Even if you just click 'Reply' the buyer also gets the option to 'Reply with Offer'

Therefore..
Buyer
"Thanks"
Reply with offer of £1.50

 

[M_Chavez]

Reply with offer of £1.50

Meh.

I can get one of these in blue for £1.49.

 

[bikeworkshop]

I can get one of these in blue for £1.49.

... from chain reaction

 

[Stretch79]

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

You can decide your own postage means. I use Evri and the costs but even that’s gone up in price now lol

 

[bikeworkshop]

You can decide your own postage means. I use Evri and the costs but even that’s gone up in price now lol

Evri keep telling me I've cancelled a collection, I'm not there , or they can't find the property atm, but it's hard to find an alternative taking (slightly) larger items like wheels and frames

 

[d8mok]

Evri keep telling me I've cancelled a collection, I'm not there , or they can't find the property atm, but it's hard to find an alternative taking (slightly) larger items like wheels and frames

Parcelforce at £12 Inc VAT

 

[bikeworkshop]

Parcelforce at £12 Inc VAT

Trouble is if you've sold a rim for £15... it's just too big for rm , but evri it's still b about a fiver