Thread: Surcharges.

SURLY a Complaint against eBay.co.uk. Really? Since when were they a payment service provider?

What Planet you living on,I am Charged a Processing Fee of £4.50 by BT,they call it a processing payment charge. I call it a Surcharge.

Methinks eBay need to update their UA! lol

Do you pay by Direct Debit? if Not, then you will be Charged a SURCHARGE, Incorrect. When Direct Debit was introduced, people who used it were given a discount. Those who did not use it were not charged extra.

Can I come in here as both a buyer and seller. Firsly I have read so many rants about free P/P and the effect on sales because of higher start prices. Now we have sellers wanting to add even more onto the sale. As a buyer I would have hesitation whatsoever in pressing the back button on any listing which displays surcharges.

It's rather ironic that ebay introduced this idea on the basis that buyers were getting ripped off by unscrupulous sellers overcharging on P&P when the end result of the policy change is that sellers are now encouraged by ebay to rip off their customers! If a buyer now buys more than one item from a seller (and about 40% of my customers do) they will have paid the full postage price for each individual item as it has now been included...

PayPal say: 4.5 Non discouragement..... You agree that you will only surcharge for the use of PayPal in compliance with any law applicable to you. You further agree that if you do charge a buyer any form of surcharge that you, and not PayPal, will inform the buyer of the requested charge. PayPal has no liability to any buyer where you have failed to inform the buyer of any surcharge. You acknowledge that if you are permitted to surcharge and...

"...What Planet you living on..." I'm REALLY glad it isn't on yours... vinylshrine for shiny vinyl

Listagogo don't start the OP off again on that one!