@rugbyguy1960 wrote:
Everything you said is so true.
I will never become a business seller and will not buy a printer because of ebay.
This was a great platform but the SD becoming compulsory, holding a sellers funds, buyer protection, are very poor decisions that will hopefully make ebay see just how much they have ruined this platform by their actions.
In 'My' opinion, I think Ebay management made a HUGE mistake when offering ALL Private Sellers the ability to sell ALL our/their items on Ebay - and pay ZERO sellers fees. The First signs was when Ebay announced that they were going to start charging buyers a 4% Buyer Protection Fee. That really was Ebay's desperation to recoup what they lost by making that tragic decision of making ZERO profit's from Private sellers, so they instead punished ALL Ebay buyers with a 4% buyer protection fee. Of course, Ebay management tried to put a positive Spin on this idea, by saying that buyers get so much more buyer protection by charging them 4%. But of-course, buyers (in general) are not stupid !! - even though Ebay tried to fool them as being stupid. Nobody wants to have to pay 4% MORE for the items they buy from Ebay. It also looks very untidy as well, as it's kiss goodbye to the rounding off of prices for Ebay items - as a £10 item - is going to be £10.40 instead, and that goes for all the prices, so it's all uneven amounts, of pounds and pence.
So, as it was clear that Ebay regretted their decision to not charge any Private Sellers fees, but didn't wish to simply U-Turn it and admit that they messed it up, then they had to find 'Other' ideas to make those Billions or Hundreds of Millions back which they lost - by not just charging buyers 4%, but also by making greater interest on the monies which Ebay keeps hold of a bit longer than normal, since the buyers have to receive the items - before we get paid. They also had to try and entice Private Sellers to keep their monies in Ebay, by giving us discount on purchases, if we did not withdraw our money. Then finally comes this mandatory Simple Delivery system, which yet-again, is another money spinner for Ebay, as no-doubt with Simply Delivery getting the total monopoly on business through ALL Private Sellers - as well as many Business Sellers, then Ebay must surely be on some sort of Commission on this very lucrative deal.
Of course, we Private Sellers who want to stick with the Royal Mail Post Office counter service are 100% screwed !!! - unless of-course we switch to being Business sellers, which naturally Ebay would prefer that most of us do this, as then they make all those extra seller fees which they lost - due to their decision to give all Private Sellers Zero Ebay Seller fees.
Then of-course, it was only very recently that ALL sellers were FORCED into providing Ebay with our National Insurance Number, which again was a Manadatory decision. This was another methodology used to sway Private Sellers into changing to Business Sellers, and of-course, they'll be checks done - which will likely result in many many thousands of Private Seller accounts being turned into Business Sellers, if evidence is proven that they are actually running a business through Ebay.
So, all of this is basically a multiple chain-reaction of events - which all came about because Ebay made a critical error by allowing all of it's Private Sellers to pay no sellers fees. If they had left things alone, then I think either some or all of these changes would never had happened. Buyers would never had been punished into paying an extra 4% for their items as well. That never should have been introduced, as that also makes sellers buy on other sites, since it gives the overall impression that Ebay is more expensive, as no other site Punishes it's buyers with this extra 4% levy
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