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FIGHT eBay's HORRIBLE Price Increases - Meg MUST RESIGN!
If you haven't heard, eBay is increasing prices from 40% to 400%
It no longer makes sense to use eBay to buy or sell items... This is SAD since it's a system many people enjoy using... This SCAM by Meg and the EVIL management MUST BE STOPPED. Here's the problem (Story broke on Jan 12th) http://www.nolistingday.com/ Sign he http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_pe....cgi?ebayfee&1 Thanks, and do not list, buy or sell on Feb 18th. |
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Mike wrote: In article , Paul McCahan wrote: If you haven't heard, eBay is increasing prices from 40% to 400% We've heard. BFD. It no longer makes sense to use eBay to buy or sell items... Yes it does. This is SAD since it's a system many people enjoy using... This SCAM by Meg and the EVIL management MUST BE STOPPED. No it's not. Thanks, and do not list, buy or sell on Feb 18th. Sellers will just raise their prices to cover the expenses - as sellers have been doing since the dawn on commerce. I'll buy and sell as I please, ThankYouVeryMuch. Mike How do eBay's new prices compare to Yahoo Auctions? |
Mike wrote:
In article , Paul McCahan wrote: If you haven't heard, eBay is increasing prices from 40% to 400% We've heard. BFD. It no longer makes sense to use eBay to buy or sell items... Yes it does. This is SAD since it's a system many people enjoy using... This SCAM by Meg and the EVIL management MUST BE STOPPED. No it's not. Thanks, and do not list, buy or sell on Feb 18th. Sellers will just raise their prices to cover the expenses - as sellers have been doing since the dawn on commerce. I'll buy and sell as I please, ThankYouVeryMuch. Mike You have to admit that this is quite a hike in price. In my business, if I hiked prices by this margin, I would have to close my doors. This will kill buying and selling low cost stuff since it won't be worth selling it on eBay anymore, IMHO. I've bought and sold many things on eBay, btw. Nicolas |
Meh, I find Ebay rather pointless for most stuff anyway. People bid stuff up
to at least discount retail and then pay double the shipping costs. Unless its last years stuff, there are few deals to be found on ebay. "Paul McCahan" wrote in message ... If you haven't heard, eBay is increasing prices from 40% to 400% It no longer makes sense to use eBay to buy or sell items... This is SAD since it's a system many people enjoy using... This SCAM by Meg and the EVIL management MUST BE STOPPED. Here's the problem (Story broke on Jan 12th) http://www.nolistingday.com/ Sign he http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_pe....cgi?ebayfee&1 Thanks, and do not list, buy or sell on Feb 18th. |
In rec.video.desktop Nasht0n wrote:
: This will kill buying and selling low cost stuff since it won't be worth : selling it on eBay anymore, IMHO. Well, frankly, if it helps return eBay to its original role as an AUCTION site, that would be good. The gazillions of duplicate listings with buy-it-now trash has made it more and more difficult to search for normal auctions. Scott |
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"Mike" wrote in message ... In article , Jack Zwick wrote: How do eBay's new prices compare to Yahoo Auctions? I have no idea. I've never used Yahoo auctions. Hell, I've never even heard of Yahoo Auctions until just now. Do you Yahoo? |
Jack Zwick wrote:
How do eBay's new prices compare to Yahoo Auctions? Yahoo won't matter, it's probably cheaper, and soon MUCH cheaper, problem is, if you don't have a market ----- your stuff won't sell. eBay has you LOCKED in. When you add PayPal into the mix, they make it near impossible to sell on the other Auction sites. That's the PROBLEM. Join the PROTEST: http://www.nolistingday.com Sign the Petition! http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_pe...ed.cgi?ebayfee |
You might try: ePier
Why jump in the Bay when you can buy items on the Pier. http://www.epier.com/ http://www.bidville.com/ Craig's list is another idea - but eBay recently bought 25% of them, so they may go under in the same way. Big websites that don't concentrate on just Auctions aren't going to work. Overstock is trying to do it too, but you need conentration from the buyer and that's not going to happen on those sites. Use snipping if you don't like bidding at the last minute, it will do it for you. http://www.snipeswipe.com/ |
Mike wrote:
But it's not a PROBLEM! Again, sellers will just raise their prices to cover these small increases. No one cares. Mike Wrong Mike. Sounds as if you know little about economics. An item that sells at auction for $10, like a set of 4 Lithium Batteries. Will still sell after February 18th for $10. PROBLEM is, the cost to sell those SAME Batteries has been raised by about .62¢!!! Not a nickel or a dime, but a LOT OF FREAKING Money. The buyer doesn't pay this fee, the SELLER DOES... you can't just raise your price... since PRICE is determined by the Market in and OUT of eBay. In other words, it will make it less viable to sell your stuff on eBay, thus less choice for buyers... This is a SERIOUS issues for the main reason that eBay is just a website... they don't have any real cost outside of maintaining a very complex server. They are spending money on expensive TV commercials, buying up Rent.com, Craig's List, without our approval, thus driving up OUR fees. If you sold on eBay you'd be raging mad, if you buy on ebay, it won't become clear that the show is going to get very quiet after Feb 18th. Lot's of people are leaving. http://www.nolistingday.com/closing_stores.htm ebay needs to solve this problem before it's too late. |
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wrote: Mike wrote: But it's not a PROBLEM! Again, sellers will just raise their prices to cover these small increases. No one cares. Mike Wrong Mike. Sounds as if you know little about economics. An item that sells at auction for $10, like a set of 4 Lithium Batteries. Will still sell after February 18th for $10. PROBLEM is, the cost to sell those SAME Batteries has been raised by about .62¢!!! Not a nickel or a dime, but a LOT OF FREAKING Money. The buyer doesn't pay this fee, the SELLER DOES... you can't just raise your price... since PRICE is determined by the Market in and OUT of eBay. In other words, it will make it less viable to sell your stuff on eBay, thus less choice for buyers... This is a SERIOUS issues for the main reason that eBay is just a website... they don't have any real cost outside of maintaining a very complex server. They are spending money on expensive TV commercials, buying up Rent.com, Craig's List, without our approval, thus driving up OUR fees. If you sold on eBay you'd be raging mad, if you buy on ebay, it won't become clear that the show is going to get very quiet after Feb 18th. Lot's of people are leaving. http://www.nolistingday.com/closing_stores.htm ebay needs to solve this problem before it's too late. From what I've seen on Ebay, this is probably a reaction to sellers listing products at a rediculously low price and making all the profit from the shipping cost. Not unusual to see a buy now price of $1 and $10 in shipping fees, of which Ebay gets nothing. -- Chris Mack "Refugee, total ****. That's how I've always seen us. 'Invid Fan' Not a help, you'll admit, to agreement between us." -'Deal/No Deal', CHESS |
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Mike wrote: In article , Paul McCahan wrote: Mike wrote: But it's not a PROBLEM! Again, sellers will just raise their prices to cover these small increases. No one cares. Mike Wrong Mike. Sounds as if you know little about economics. An item that sells at auction for $10, like a set of 4 Lithium Batteries. Will still sell after February 18th for $10. PROBLEM is, the cost to sell those SAME Batteries has been raised by about .62¢!!! Not a nickel or a dime, but a LOT OF FREAKING Money. The buyer doesn't pay this fee, the SELLER DOES... you can't just raise your price... since PRICE is determined by the Market in and OUT of eBay. No, the seller will just raise the price to $11. What part of this do you not understand? The part you apparently don't understand is that the price is set by the market - not by the seller alone. |
Paul McCahan ) wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:
Lot's of people are leaving. http://www.nolistingday.com/closing_stores.htm As of today, eBay has 129,000 different stores listed, and that page shows 29 as "leaving". That's 0.022% of the total...not very significant. -- Jeff Rife | "I once did a news report on the dangers of | plastic surgery, and do you know what the | statistics say?" | "Yes...that 9 out of 10 men prefer women | with big boobs." | "And the 10th guy preferred the 9 other men." | -- "Just Shoot Me" |
Invid Fan ) wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:
From what I've seen on Ebay, this is probably a reaction to sellers listing products at a rediculously low price and making all the profit from the shipping cost. Not unusual to see a buy now price of $1 and $10 in shipping fees, of which Ebay gets nothing. The new fee structure would make that happen even more often, not less. Any time the eBay fees go up, sellers will raise their shipping costs to compensate. It's the one place you can guarantee a fixed payment (assuming your item sells at all). -- Jeff Rife | | http://www.nabs.net/Cartoons/Dilbert/Understaffed.gif |
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Jeff Rife wrote: Paul McCahan ) wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo: Lot's of people are leaving. http://www.nolistingday.com/closing_stores.htm As of today, eBay has 129,000 different stores listed, and that page shows 29 as "leaving". That's 0.022% of the total...not very significant. Depends on what percentage of the leaving stores actually found and signed the petition. But, no, it's not likely to put eBay out of business. It will more likely impact people like me - who occasionally sell a few items rather than send them to Goodwill. If eBay's keeping 22% of the selling price, why should I go through the hassle of selling? |
Jeff Rife wrote:
http://www.nolistingday.com/closing_stores.htm As of today, eBay has 129,000 different stores listed, and that page shows 29 as "leaving". That's 0.022% of the total...not very significant. yes, but that's an upstart website, alive for only a few days - the real numbers are he Posted by webnet ( 8990 ) on Jan-12-05 at 19:40:27 PST Auctions AMAZING. NOW since the last post at 19:26 stores 132,050 now its only 131,975 a loss of 75 stores closed in the last 20 minutes. I will check again in the morning to see how bad ebay has damaged themselves. AMAZING... sellers SPEAK OUT. I checked the number of stores earlier and found 5,180 pages of them (@ 25 stores per page), hence the current count at 'about' 129,500. To check the number do an advanced search, click on stores, search with 'no' keyword entries, then click on list alphabetically ...... on the results page scroll to the bottom and check the number of pages. Multiply by 25. |
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:10:28 -0600, "RS"
wrote: Meh, I find Ebay rather pointless for most stuff anyway. People bid stuff up to at least discount retail and then pay double the shipping costs. Unless its last years stuff, there are few deals to be found on ebay. \ Agreed. There are not many deals on eGay. It amazes me how many people pay either close to or above retail and then get screwed with inflated shipping costs. Bunch of morons! |
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Right, and the cost of bringing the goods to the market just went up. Everyone else selling the same goods will also raise their prices. Their only other option is to absorb the loss. Do you *really* think many are going to do that? The part that you don't seem to understand is that the seller will raise his price to cover his costs. I can't believe you don't understand this. When costs go up, sellers raise prices. It has always been thus. There is more to the "market price" than the cost of the goods alone. There are other expenses and factors to consider. This is a prime example. That's fine for "buy it now" prices, but I believe most people are talking about auctions. -- --Tim Smith |
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TravelinMan wrote: In article , Jeff Rife wrote: Paul McCahan ) wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo: Lot's of people are leaving. http://www.nolistingday.com/closing_stores.htm As of today, eBay has 129,000 different stores listed, and that page shows 29 as "leaving". That's 0.022% of the total...not very significant. Depends on what percentage of the leaving stores actually found and signed the petition. But, no, it's not likely to put eBay out of business. It will more likely impact people like me - who occasionally sell a few items rather than send them to Goodwill. If eBay's keeping 22% of the selling price, why should I go through the hassle of selling? Where did you get 22%? -- Timberwoof me at timberwoof dot com http://www.timberwoof.com http://www.sorryeverybody.com/gallery/200/ |
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Mike wrote: In article , TravelinMan wrote: No, the seller will just raise the price to $11. What part of this do you not understand? The part you apparently don't understand is that the price is set by the market - not by the seller alone. Right, and the cost of bringing the goods to the market just went up. Everyone else selling the same goods will also raise their prices. Their only other option is to absorb the loss. Do you *really* think many are going to do that? You apparently think ebay is the only place people can buy stuff. The part that you don't seem to understand is that the seller will raise his price to cover his costs. But if his prices are already as close to what somebody can buy the item for elsewhere, and he raises it - he looses the sales. I can't believe you don't understand this. When costs go up, sellers raise prices. It has always been thus. I can't believe that you think raising cost is such a 'cure all'. especially when, as I mentioned above, ebay isn't the only place to buy stuff. There is more to the "market price" than the cost of the goods alone. There are other expenses and factors to consider. This is a prime example. Mike -- Tim |
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Paul McCahan wrote: Jeff Rife wrote: http://www.nolistingday.com/closing_stores.htm As of today, eBay has 129,000 different stores listed, and that page shows 29 as "leaving". That's 0.022% of the total...not very significant. yes, but that's an upstart website, alive for only a few days - the real numbers are he Posted by webnet ( 8990 ) on Jan-12-05 at 19:40:27 PST Auctions AMAZING. NOW since the last post at 19:26 stores 132,050 now its only 131,975 a loss of 75 stores closed in the last 20 minutes. I will check again in the morning to see how bad ebay has damaged themselves. AMAZING... sellers SPEAK OUT. I checked the number of stores earlier and found 5,180 pages of them (@ 25 stores per page), hence the current count at 'about' 129,500. To check the number do an advanced search, click on stores, search with 'no' keyword entries, then click on list alphabetically ...... on the results page scroll to the bottom and check the number of pages. Multiply by 25. Not to defend eBay, but I don't think your interpretation makes sense. The price increase doesn't take effect until February. Why would the stores shut down now? Why not continue selling until the change occurs? And if they currently have auctions running, it would be even more foolish to shut down - at least until the auctions finish. |
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Mike wrote: In article , TravelinMan wrote: No, the seller will just raise the price to $11. What part of this do you not understand? The part you apparently don't understand is that the price is set by the market - not by the seller alone. Right, and the cost of bringing the goods to the market just went up. Everyone else selling the same goods will also raise their prices. Their only other option is to absorb the loss. Do you *really* think many are going to do that? That makes sense - IF eBay is the only route to market. Hint: it isn't. And the other routes to market haven't had this amount of a price increase. The part that you don't seem to understand is that the seller will raise his price to cover his costs. I can't believe you don't understand this. When costs go up, sellers raise prices. It has always been thus. Of course, only eBay sellers have had this increase. Other routes to market have not. There is more to the "market price" than the cost of the goods alone. There are other expenses and factors to consider. This is a prime example. There are also competitive routes to market. eBay sellers have just been placed at a _relative_ disadvantage (compared to where they were before). |
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TravelinMan wrote: In article , Mike wrote: In article , TravelinMan wrote: No, the seller will just raise the price to $11. What part of this do you not understand? The part you apparently don't understand is that the price is set by the market - not by the seller alone. Right, and the cost of bringing the goods to the market just went up. Everyone else selling the same goods will also raise their prices. Their only other option is to absorb the loss. Do you *really* think many are going to do that? That makes sense - IF eBay is the only route to market. Hint: it isn't. And the other routes to market haven't had this amount of a price increase. The part that you don't seem to understand is that the seller will raise his price to cover his costs. I can't believe you don't understand this. When costs go up, sellers raise prices. It has always been thus. Of course, only eBay sellers have had this increase. Other routes to market have not. There is more to the "market price" than the cost of the goods alone. There are other expenses and factors to consider. This is a prime example. There are also competitive routes to market. eBay sellers have just been placed at a _relative_ disadvantage (compared to where they were before). What other online auction sites are there? I know of two. They're not nearly the size of eBay. I suppose someone could make the case that eBay is engaging in monopolistic practices. -- Timberwoof me at timberwoof dot com http://www.timberwoof.com http://www.sorryeverybody.com/gallery/200/ |
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Timberwoof wrote: In article , TravelinMan wrote: In article , Mike wrote: In article , TravelinMan wrote: No, the seller will just raise the price to $11. What part of this do you not understand? The part you apparently don't understand is that the price is set by the market - not by the seller alone. Right, and the cost of bringing the goods to the market just went up. Everyone else selling the same goods will also raise their prices. Their only other option is to absorb the loss. Do you *really* think many are going to do that? That makes sense - IF eBay is the only route to market. Hint: it isn't. And the other routes to market haven't had this amount of a price increase. The part that you don't seem to understand is that the seller will raise his price to cover his costs. I can't believe you don't understand this. When costs go up, sellers raise prices. It has always been thus. Of course, only eBay sellers have had this increase. Other routes to market have not. There is more to the "market price" than the cost of the goods alone. There are other expenses and factors to consider. This is a prime example. There are also competitive routes to market. eBay sellers have just been placed at a _relative_ disadvantage (compared to where they were before). What other online auction sites are there? I know of two. They're not nearly the size of eBay. I suppose someone could make the case that eBay is engaging in monopolistic practices. Possibly, but difficult. eBay sellers have to compete with Walmart, the Dollar Store, Amazon, and the entire rest of the economy. That's why a price increase hits them hard. As it is, I buy something on eBay if it's less expensive than other sources. Usually it is, but only by a little. If the seller tries to increase the price by enough to make up for eBay's increased fees, it will probably make their products more expensive than the alternatives - or at least not enough savings to make up for the hassle. |
Paul McCahan wrote:
Jack Zwick wrote: How do eBay's new prices compare to Yahoo Auctions? Yahoo won't matter, it's probably cheaper, and soon MUCH cheaper, problem is, if you don't have a market ----- your stuff won't sell. eBay has you LOCKED in. When you add PayPal into the mix, they make it near impossible to sell on the other Auction sites. That's the PROBLEM. Join the PROTEST: http://www.nolistingday.com Sign the Petition! http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_pe...ed.cgi?ebayfee You're an idiot, take your petition somwhere else, jason -- ((¯`'·.¸(¯`'·.((¯`'·.¸ * jason bean* ¸.·'´¯))¸.·'´¯)¸.·'´¯)) For me , said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle," and he reached his hand up for it. http://home.cogeco.ca/~jabean http://musicpage.kicks-ass.org/ |
RS wrote:
Meh, I find Ebay rather pointless for most stuff anyway. People bid stuff up to at least discount retail and then pay double the shipping costs. Unless its last years stuff, there are few deals to be found on ebay. For sure. However, I have gotten some pretty good deals at times as well. -- Rob Munach, PE Excel Engineering PO Box 1264 Carrboro, NC 27510 |
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Paul McCahan wrote: If you haven't heard, eBay is increasing prices from 40% to 400% It no longer makes sense to use eBay to buy or sell items... This is SAD since it's a system many people enjoy using... This SCAM by Meg and the EVIL management MUST BE STOPPED. Here's the problem (Story broke on Jan 12th) http://www.nolistingday.com/ Sign he http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_pe....cgi?ebayfee&1 Thanks, and do not list, buy or sell on Feb 18th. Vote with your dollars. If the prices get too high, don't buy stuff from them. -- "Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler." -- Albert Einstein |
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Chris Phillipo wrote: In article teadams$2$0$0$3-D17A7F.20230415012005 @news1.east.earthlink.net, says... Right, and the cost of bringing the goods to the market just went up. Everyone else selling the same goods will also raise their prices. Their only other option is to absorb the loss. Do you *really* think many are going to do that? You apparently think ebay is the only place people can buy stuff. The part that you don't seem to understand is that the seller will raise his price to cover his costs. But if his prices are already as close to what somebody can buy the item for elsewhere, and he raises it - he looses the sales. No, that's not how it works. When someone has something used to sell what's the first thing they do. Check how much it goes for on ebay and set the price accordingly. NO kidding? So Walmart sets their prices by going to eBay to see what items are selling for? Wow. YOu learn something new every day. |
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Chris Phillipo wrote: In article , says... Not to defend eBay, but I don't think your interpretation makes sense. The price increase doesn't take effect until February. Why would the stores shut down now? Why not continue selling until the change occurs? And if they currently have auctions running, it would be even more foolish to shut down - at least until the auctions finish. Maybe that's why there are only 29 so far? Could be. I was thinking of setting up an eBay store for a business I know of, but might reconsider with the higher fees. |
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Mike wrote: But it's not a PROBLEM! Again, sellers will just raise their prices to cover these small increases. No one cares. Mike Wrong Mike. Sounds as if you know little about economics. An item that sells at auction for $10, like a set of 4 Lithium Batteries. Will still sell after February 18th for $10. PROBLEM is, the cost to sell those SAME Batteries has been raised by about .62¢!!! Not a nickel or a dime, but a LOT OF FREAKING Money. The buyer doesn't pay this fee, the SELLER DOES... you can't just raise your price... since PRICE is determined by the Market in and OUT of eBay. In other words, it will make it less viable to sell your stuff on eBay, thus less choice for buyers... This is a SERIOUS issues for the main reason that eBay is just a website... they don't have any real cost outside of maintaining a very complex server. They are spending money on expensive TV commercials, buying up Rent.com, Craig's List, without our approval, thus driving up OUR fees. If you sold on eBay you'd be raging mad, if you buy on ebay, it won't become clear that the show is going to get very quiet after Feb 18th. Lot's of people are leaving. http://www.nolistingday.com/closing_stores.htm ebay needs to solve this problem before it's too late. The seller will just jack up his shipping price a buck. Do you honestly think half the stuff that sells on Egay costs $15-$20 to ship yet most auctions charge that much fro medium sized auction. Problem solved. |
Paul McCahan shaped the electrons to say:
PROBLEM is, the cost to sell those SAME Batteries has been raised by about .62¢!!! Not a nickel or a dime, but a LOT OF FREAKING Money. Big ****ing Deal. I've been buying and selling on eBay for many years. I don't give a ****. The buyer doesn't pay this fee, the SELLER DOES... you can't just raise your price... since PRICE is determined by the Market in and OUT of eBay. So your profits go down. Tough ****. If you don't like it, find some other way to do business. eBay does NOT owe ANYONE. They're a business, they're not obligated to help you make your living on small margins. If this is enough to put a serious dent in some sellers, I'm not going to cry for them, they'll have to find other ways to make a living. You know, like before eBay existed? Or they'll have to adjust how they sell, or what they sell. That's life, suck it up. In other words, it will make it less viable to sell your stuff on eBay, So what? thus less choice for buyers... This is a SERIOUS issues for the main reason that eBay is just a website... they don't have any real cost outside of maintaining a very complex server. They are spending money on expensive TV commercials, buying up Rent.com, Craig's List, without our approval, thus driving up OUR fees. "without our approval"? Who the **** do you think you are, anyway? They're a business. They're in business to *make money*. The only approval they need is from their board of directors and the shareholders - and the feds, of course. Users can take it or leave it - period. That's how our system, capitalism, works - perhaps you've heard of it. There are other auction sites if you really don't like eBay. There are other ways to sell online too - Amazon zShops, setting up your own site (osCommerce is an open source shoppign cart package written in PHP which is solid and widely used), etc. And it sounds like you don't have any clue what it costs to run a major IT infrastructure. 'They don't have nay real cost outside of maintain a very complex server.' Try hundreds of servers, and paying for massive amounts of bandwidth, and 24 hour IT staff, and programmers, and support, etc. I've worked for large companies that ran large server installations (Lucent, GTE Internetworking) - the costs are *massive*. And those TV commercials are called *marketing*! What do you think drives many of the buyers to the site in the first place? eBay was once upon a time a marketplace used mostly by geeks who happened to be online. The marketing they've done is what turned them into a household name and drove up the number of buyers and sellers. Without marketing they'd be like any one of a number of auction sites that started around the same time - and died, or linger on pitifully. If you sold on eBay you'd be raging mad, if you buy on ebay, it won't become clear that the show is going to get very quiet after Feb 18th. I sell on eBay - I couldn't care less about this. I buy on eBay - and I doubt I'll notice any change, except maybe some whiny *******s will have left. And yes, I *am* being harsh. I'm sick of snivelling twits demanding corporations bend over to make their lives easier, especially when they do it in a way that sounds like they feel their *owed* something. Like all the people who whine, bitch, and moan about how evil PayPal is - but refuse to switch to any other payment system because PayPal is so 'easy'. Those people need to shut the **** up - either put up or shut up. If you've going to keep using PP, stop whining when they freeze your account and keep your money. You asked for it. ebay needs to solve this problem before it's too late. I think eBay *is* solving their problem. Good riddance. Maybe they'll all go start their own site - eBray.com. -MZ, RHCE #806199299900541, ex-CISSP #3762 -- URL:mailto:megazoneatmegazone.org Gweep, Discordian, Author, Engineer, me. "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-755-4098 URL:http://www.megazone.org/ URL:http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ Eris |
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TravelinMan wrote: No, that's not how it works. When someone has something used to sell what's the first thing they do. Check how much it goes for on ebay and set the price accordingly. NO kidding? So Walmart sets their prices by going to eBay to see what items are selling for? Wow. YOu learn something new every day. Yes, you do. Until your post, I was unaware that Walmart sold used goods. -- --Tim Smith |
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@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net, [email protected] potato.com says... In article , TravelinMan wrote: No, that's not how it works. When someone has something used to sell what's the first thing they do. Check how much it goes for on ebay and set the price accordingly. NO kidding? So Walmart sets their prices by going to eBay to see what items are selling for? Wow. YOu learn something new every day. Yes, you do. Until your post, I was unaware that Walmart sold used goods. Yeah, and I was unaware that e-bay sold new stuff. Go figure. -- Cam |
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 03:55:51 -0500, Invid Fan
wrote: From what I've seen on Ebay, this is probably a reaction to sellers listing products at a rediculously low price and making all the profit from the shipping cost. Not unusual to see a buy now price of $1 and $10 in shipping fees, of which Ebay gets nothing. But won't this practice get *worse* as sellers attempt to recoup fees in inflated shipping costs? For all my listings I add a "shipping/packaging/listing & paypal fee". JW |
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:53:29 GMT, Chris Phillipo
wrote: I already see some sellers charging $30 for regular mail within the US on 1 pound items so I don't know how much worse it could get :) -- If you believe in basic economics, then the bid prices should be lower as a result. Ebay, by taking a higher percentage, and sellers, by therefore charging higher shipping, will drive prices down. JW |
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