Thread: FORCED FREE POSTAGE IS WRONG !!!!!!!

'Ebay surely are losing out as well from the small seller' Less sellers = less choice = less buyers. yup, an all round lose, lose situation less sellers = less choice = increased sale prices of course only time will be a real test of what will happen long term,short term is just guess work

Ebay is in terminal decline unless they get rid of their current management team who have simply lost the plot. Ebay will never be able to turn itself into Amazon style online retailer which is the current management strategy. Amazon is simply too good at what it does to have any worries about ebay. What they fail to realise is that the world has moved on since ebay started in the UK and online buyers are now much more savvy about how...

great offers 2008: "But a seller who lists what they want for a item IS being honest just because they are charging more than the cover price does not make them any more dishonest than you" No, that's complete rubbish. There are indeed sellers of new books on Ebay who charge MORE than cover price - these sellers are dishonest, they are rip-off merchants, no more no less. These sellers base their trade on making fools of buyers -...

oldie but you already add your P&P fees into your starting price - do your buyers know this? Do you tell them that you are going to "send the item out for free BUT you are paying for it in the long run as I add my loss to the starting price"!? - I bet you don't. Isn't that wrong? And at the end of the day it was not fee avoidance as ebay say I can do that - at least I was not falsely advertising FREE P&P was I -...

I usually agree with JK's views But then,I've often been accused of working for ebay as well

They are. And so is eB*d themselves. Bet their rubbing their hands! Lol.

#805 But the theory is that someone would buy it and then enter into an arrangement with the seller to post it. If any suggestion that the buyer could do this was on the listing surely that would be soliciting an off-Ebay sale, ie. the postage, to avoid fees.

Where have they said that? From ebay PR eBay Priorities eBay are focusing on the three top reasons why buyers stop buying on eBay 1. Losing money on eBay 2. Getting a negative feedback 3. High postage and packaging charges Postage and packing charges will be next target area for eBay in order to meet buyer objectives .

Cottage-garden. #2035 Highlight the words you want to emphasise then click on the Bold button ( B ) next to the Smiley. It may be better to use italics, same as bold, but the I button. Readers, who use screen readers due to poor eyesight, have difficulty reading bold type. You beat me to it. - But you put it so clearly...... I would hae rambled on and on, never actually getting to the point!

IMHO I think free postage is here to stay as the 19th looms closer it is ether gonna be a case of put up or shut up. Can anyone remember a time when Greedbay has gone back on an anoucment on the uk site??? The thing that really p*sses me off is the fact that everything on this site is run so badly now. About a year ago i started to use gooogle base to get more visibility to my store now ebay had everything set for this even a bit of software...