Ebay Is Conning Us

[Anonymous]

So if I sell a vinyl record to someone for £4 it will cost the buyer £4.85? What is this nonsense? It won't be worth selling small items after Feb 4th. EBay are going to lose 1000s of sellers and buyers.

[asleepingdragon]

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@moldosgifts wrote:

My maths makes it £4.91 not £4.85 

Its 4% plus 75p

So £4 plus 4% =£4.16 + 75p = £4.91

Or the customer can buy from a business that doesn't have those extra charges and price will be £4.

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Does it MATTER?  Have you seen food prices recently?  I'm still buying food I would like and not living on gruel which would be cheaper?  

[moldosgifts]

Not to me it doesn't pointing out the info given is incorrect and is actually more than the guy/gal is getting miffed at so much much worse than they first thought or pennies more.

And pennies to some is a big deal

[Anonymous]

You'd be surprised. I sell 10+ a week, which will drop to 5 at most!

[Anonymous]

Great out the private seller out of business. Just like the Labour Party.

[Anonymous]

You need food you don't need vinyl records. See the difference.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely. Someone with common sense. I rarely come on here but its almost as bad as the BBC blogs.

[selective_distribution]

If you sell a vinyl record to someone for £4.00, then you really should not be trading on eBay anyway, as you will be making a loss, and forcing the market down to it`s lowest denominator.

Yes, the price after the fees will be £4.85, but so then that will be the price for every other seller who was at £4.00, so you can continue to compete to lose money to your hearts content.

This will of course not apply to the BIG sellers (Music Magpie, WOB), who will no doubt have done a deal with eBay to continue to allow them to undercut every Book/CD seller on the platform.

[lucy_farmer]

'Great out the private seller out of business. Just like the Labour Party.'

Please folks : this is *nothing* whatsoever to do with politics. Right or Left.

Ebay are an American Mega-Corps (politically speaking , I can't think of anything further away from the Labour Party! )

The function of Big Business is to make money and ebay have decided to squeeze their worker-bees a bit more. End of.

And the HMRC getting people's ebay info, is also *nothing* to do with whatever colour of Government is in at the time.... it's a 'Western-world wide' thing about cracking down on digital money moving.

Neither The Morning Star nor GB news can turn this into a UK political problem.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

So when did you become the arbiter of who should and should not sell on here.  If you are a business it will not make any difference to you anyway and all genuine private sellers will be making 'a loss' on their unwanted items anyway, it is the very nature of selling off your clutter!      Quiet honestly the arrogance of so many that are coming on these threads deeming what should and should not be sold, who should and should not be sellers (especially private sellers) and what and when these threads should be about  absolutely astounds me.  If you do not like a thread or are fed up of it etc stop flipping reading it then and certainly do not bother responding, you are then the problem!

[Anonymous]

Sorry but its exactly what,flavour are doing! I do wish people would bloody well wake up in this country.

[Anonymous]

Oh nonsense. I'm not selling off "clutter". I give that to charity. Its my opinion and I couldn't give a stuff if you don't like it.
Jesus, this forum has got to be one of the worst I've ever been on.

[Anonymous]

Who accepted this rubbish as a solution?

[kath3735_wxmjn]

if instead of going into indignant mode and you had read the whole thing you would have seen that i was not responding to any of your posts but to message 27 of 31.  The clue is in the header - 'in response to.....'!

[sakval]

Glad it's not just me that feels this way! 

[cobwebcottage]

'If you do not like a thread or are fed up of it etc stop flipping reading it then and certainly do not bother responding, you are then the problem!'

Maybe you should follow your own advice.

[pillarboxred]

People will pay up for items they like and want and can afford. There are plenty of stingy ones around who will go "eek!" but a paradoxical side-effect of inflation is we stop being shocked by price rises and as long as we have the money we will buy what we want.

[pillarboxred]

I'm afraid that sellers here are having to compete on price to make sales. Used vinyl records do not have to be any particular price. I do not have a record player but I occasionally buy a cheap vinyl out of nostalgia: the last one was "Wheels of Fire"  (the studio version) by "Cream", an album I bought for my brother in 1968. It was £5 at a stall.

[pillarboxred]

Is the work involved worth the money earned? I bought some cute vintage jigsaw puzzles at a car boot sale for £2.50 each: zero interest on eBay. Used jigsaws should be binned as they are too much work to check and market and a frequent source of disappointment if incomplete. Antique ones are another thing and their commercial value makes all the work worthwhile.

[sakval]

I only sell once I have completed them & therefore know all pieces are there.

I used to sell lots of different items but it is definitely becoming more difficult.

Sakval

[crg_music]

But that business seller already has that item at £5.50 to get the £4. Fees are roughly 20% excluding shop fee which is probably another 10p+.