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How the feck can this possibly cost £50 to delivery? i could post somthing to mars and back for that!
and £25 to post a carb top... am i missing somthing ?
Is this his missis telling him to sell up and his way of not having to?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/renault-5-gt-turbo-alloy-rad_W0QQitemZ300358359240QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Car sParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item45eec0d8c8
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/renault-5-turbo-gt-tuning-carb-top_W0QQitemZ300358361051QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Car sParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item45eec0dfdb
dangerous dave
17-10-2009, 21:54
he must be delivering it in person anywhere in the uk... :confused:
he must be delivering it in person anywhere in the uk... :confused:
Id want sexual favours included in delivery for that!
I always assumed people do this to save on ebay fees. Do ebay charge final value fees on the item or item plus postage ?. I guess its just the item so if you want to sell something for £50 then £25 buy it now and £25 postage and you only pay half the fees to ebay. Just my guess any how. :)
what you dont realise is ebay charges 10% from the sale price of an
item not the "postage" . as it is now he would be looking to pay
7quid to ebay once this is sold . if he were to put the price to 110quid
and 10 postage ,he would have to pay 11quid ,thats 4 quid lost.
or he could do 100 quid postage and £10 for the rad instantly saving
a tenner !!!! which could be reflected to the buyer .
at the end of the day as long as the item is worth 120quid delivered
thats what matters :coffee:
sounds like the betting market, i know as the bookie id be paying the charges.. not the punter..
On the flip side, ebay charges are becoming rediculas, and i hope they loose millions because of this and revert back to old prices.
All being said, the auctions are buy it now, :)
Mike GTT
17-10-2009, 22:09
this would be the reason why items from abroad can be buy it now 99p (free insert fee) and £15 postage then?? ;)
this would be the reason why items from abroad can be buy it now 99p (free insert fee) and £15 postage then?? ;)
thats exactly it.
i used to sell tshirts that were £2.99 but £10 postage, that way it saved me on fees... tho sadly after a warning i had to start listing them correctly. turns out someone reported me for unfair postage.... as a result the items had to be increased to £14.99 otherwise id have been losing out due to fees etc.
so one buyers complaint meant that the rest lost out overall.
as long as theres a genuine reason, and its not like trying to charge £15 to deliver an alarm to ireland that costs £6.45.. yet the BIN price is still what it should be
surcharges for NI and the highlands etc is a joke tho to be fair
This is class its backing and laying of ebay fee's...
The worlds a betting market, from stocks, to exchanges to ebay :cool:
thats exactly it.
i used to sell tshirts that were £2.99 but £10 postage, that way it saved me on fees... tho sadly after a warning i had to start listing them correctly. turns out someone reported me for unfair postage.... as a result the items had to be increased to £14.99 otherwise id have been losing out due to fees etc.
some people dont understand the concept , exact same thing happened to me .
the fees are a joke tho.
i just sold a radio facia for my boss @ £209.99.. after paypal and ebay fees he got £182.05...
he then had to post the thing @ around £15....
so £165 from an item that sold for £209.99.... i never remembered ebay being that costly a few years ago.
sadly tho its the only "safe" auction site :( the rest seem to be scam central
Junglist
17-10-2009, 23:02
there is always some nutter on ebay selling wing mirrors for 14.99 postage wtf :crap:
the fees are a joke tho.
i just sold a radio facia for my boss @ £209.99.. after paypal and ebay fees he got £182.05...
he then had to post the thing @ around £15....
so £165 from an item that sold for £209.99.... i never remembered ebay being that costly a few years ago.
sadly tho its the only "safe" auction site :( the rest seem to be scam central
true , they have taken the piss recently . i cant even imagine what sort of
a killing they must be making with all these stuff sold worldwide .
there should really be a control mechanism to tell them how much
commission they can charge but apparently thats against the rules of
capitalism .
on the other hand ebay is luxembourg based company and they trade worldwide .
i wonder if they pay any tax to british or any other goverments in the world apart from the obvious luxembourg ???:scratch:
hmm.,
ill be honest when i sell on ebay i usually put a silly postage, with 99p no reserve
that way its free to list and the buyer usually gets a good deal, ive had a few kick off about it , but i just claim im buying bubble wrap and boxes from the post office (which really do cost silly money) :)
The new Bill J
18-10-2009, 10:27
The postage price is for P&P (Postage and Packing), not just the delivery charge. Included in that is your time. So technically you can charge what you want, as it all depends how much you charge for your time. I'm quite cheap, at £10 million per hour :D
diggerdog36
18-10-2009, 14:19
I hate p**s takers, I sell alot of my stuff on ebay, postage is always what it costs me, I keep the costs down and people always comment on it, I get repeat customers from all over the world. I never ever make money out of postage costs. Ive even made a loss on postage just to keep people happy.
£50 to send an ALLOY rad, you can send that through interparcel for £7.50.
I'd tell him to stick it up his arse.....sideways!
diggerdog36
18-10-2009, 14:30
the fees are a joke tho.
i just sold a radio facia for my boss @ £209.99.. after paypal and ebay fees he got £182.05...
he then had to post the thing @ around £15....
so £165 from an item that sold for £209.99.... i never remembered ebay being that costly a few years ago.
sadly tho its the only "safe" auction site :( the rest seem to be scam central
True, ebay fees used to be 4%, now they are 10%.
Robbing ba****ds.
Look how many items are on ebay, at the minute there are 17488946 items, thats over 17 million!! If they earn 10% off each item, saying each sold for £1 thats over £1.7 million a week!! And thats if each item sold for £1....shocking
dangerous dave
18-10-2009, 15:10
i try buy and sell outside ebay all the time.. i just use it for the advert:p
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