O/T Ebay to start collecting final value fees on shipping!

[paul]

I'm not going to defend ebay's move, but there is another side to this. I once bought a clock on ebay. The same clock was available from several sellers. Most charged about $8 for shipping, and their clocks sold for $30-35. Others charged $40 for shipping. Their clocks sold for a dollar or not at all. These sellers were clearly charging the full value of the item in their shipping fee. In this way, they avoided ebay's fees (and maybe even lured in a few careless shoppers). I can see ebay wanting to prevent this. Of course, that doesn't mean that ebay has no other motives.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by paul

I'm not going to defend ebay's move, but there is another side to this. I once bought a clock on ebay. The same clock was available from several sellers. Most charged about $8 for shipping, and their clocks sold for $30-35. Others charged $40 for shipping. Their clocks sold for a dollar or not at all. These sellers were clearly charging the full value of the item in their shipping fee. In this way, they avoided ebay's fees (and maybe even lured in a few careless shoppers). I can see ebay wanting to prevent this. Of course, that doesn't mean that ebay has no other motives.

Then they should charge final value fees on the shipping for ebay sellers who do not have a good DSR rating on shipping...instead they are punishing everyone for the acts of a few. They could very easily exclude top-rated sellers from this new fee.

[scgaynor]

Ebay has to constantly keep raising money to satisfy their investors so each year they need to come up with a new gimmick to keep the money flow coming in. Last time it was going with Paypal only, now it is charging on shipping. The problem is that eventually they are going to run out of gimmicks and either the investors will leave (when ebay profits go down), or the sellers will leave (when fees get too high). If I was going to be buying stock in Ebay, I would think very hard about that.

Scott