New Ebay Authentication service

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by Sean1125

Thought this might be pertinent to add...

They literally didn't tape the box that they sent. Just closed lid with a label. Anyone along the way could have opened it. Luckily everything arrived in tact.

I call bullshit unless you have pics to prove it. Not saying it couldn't happen, people make mistakes and perhaps someone forgot to tape one box, but this obviously isn't standard practice, and I see no reason to believe you without evidence.

[sb1]

Ebay is slowly implementing this new "service", they will probably keep gradually lowering the $ amount and then implement their fee as people become used to the process. I don't believe there is a way to opt out, you will at one point be required to use the service on even lower dollar cards and pay for it....

[Deertick]

Originally Posted by sb1

Ebay is slowly implementing this new "service", they will probably keep gradually lowering the $ amount and then implement their fee as people become used to the process. I don't believe there is a way to opt out, you will at one point be required to use the service on even lower dollar cards and pay for it....

Any sales from 3/1 on, FVF are going up to 12.9%.


https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center...es-update.html

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Deertick

Any sales from 3/1 on, FVF are going up to 12.9%.


https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center...es-update.html

....and the other shoe drops.......and that final value fee will also be charged for collecting shipping charges, sales taxes and VAT taxes.

That ain't the end of it either. No way that's not going to include a "free" service of "authenticating" your cards, for very long.

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

and that final value fee will also be charged for collecting shipping charges, sales taxes and VAT taxes.

This has been the case for a long time. This is not new.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Snowman

This has been the case for a long time. This is not new.

I wasn’t suggesting it was new. I was suggesting the higher fee was new……and the higher fee also applies to sales tax, vat tax and shipping fees, just like it has since EBay took over the merchant processing from PayPal.

It’s a price hike across the board, that makes what some might see as a smaller price hike, bigger then it seems, since they are taking a big portion of parts of the sale, that most sellers don’t make a penny on.

You think that’s cool, well good for you.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Snowman

I call bullshit unless you have pics to prove it. Not saying it couldn't happen, people make mistakes and perhaps someone forgot to tape one box, but this obviously isn't standard practice, and I see no reason to believe you without evidence.

Shows picture of un-taped box.

"You removed the tape from the box"

Why would he lie about something as ambiguous as that?

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Shows picture of un-taped box.

"You removed the tape from the box"

Why would he lie about something as ambiguous as that?

First off, people in this hobby lie all the time. The blowhard forums are chock-full of absolute nonsense. But even absent of intentional mistruths, what I run into more often in this community usually amounts to simple incompetence. Someone reads something that someone else posted and twists it into something it isn't because they lack reading comprehension skills or critical thinking skills, and then they repost it, others gobble it up, and next thing you know people start spouting out nonsense and every believes it. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out that this "no tape" claim is someone who read some post on Blowhard where someone posted a picture of their eBay certified box, then someone else commented, "why is there no tape on that box?" (meanwhile, it was there all along, just on the back corner that isn't pictured) and next thing you know, all the eBay haters and TPG haters jump in and pile on with the "See! They don't even tape the boxes! I told you this was going to be a joke!". This shit happens ALL THE TIME. So, like I said. Sure, it's plausible. But I have no reason to believe this without evidence.