to want to boycott fecking Ebay!

[ZingWidge]

fucking fuckhead bollocking bitch twat Ebay arsehole cunts!

I've just found out that from September they are going to change final value fees!

Ebay announcement:
Final value fees will be charged based on the combined value of the item listed plus postage.
For example, if an item sells for £20 with postage cost of £4, the final value fee will be charged based on the combined value of £24.

thanks, just great! so first post office increases fess which makes it just ridiculous to try & sell a pair of kids shoes for 99p or so coz cheapest p&p is £5.20.
they take of 10% off of final value at the moment. so If I did that I'd earn 89p (99p-10p)

with new changes they'd charge after 6.29 so here's the math

6.29 - 0.63 (which is the 10% rounded up = 5.66

£5.66 - p&p of 5.20 = 0.46

so that's a whole 46p profit! excellent! I loose almost 50% of profit because of fucking post office fees and new Ebay rules combined!
no fucking way.
I'd rather have a "Boston Tea Party" in the form of burning everything!

great, just fucking great!

that will definitely stop me from trying to list stuff on Ebay!

AIBU to want everyone to stop selling/buying on Ebay until the selling conditions for people like me, who are trying to earn a few quid selling 2nd hand stuff as a "hobby" or part of a decluttering & reduce-reuse-recycle effort, improve or revert back to previous rules?

small businesses will suffer too. it is outrageous IMO

AIBU to be so angry about the PO and Ebay doing this again

BTW does anyone have any ideas how I could sell 2nd hand stuff online for a reasonable profit?

(I expect MNHQ to tweak my post for foul language. but I'm so angry)

sthelen the obvious thing is to increase starting fee, only list on zero insertion fee days, and with zero P&P (so you get good sellers ratings)

but that way both seller and buyer will get stung!

say the follow the example in my OP to make £1.10 profit I'd have to list those shoes for £7.00! with free p&p .

who on earth will go for that?

SconeInSixtySeconds - thanks for that. I said to DH when he had listed it he should have done collection only, but would he listen?!
We were messed around a bit by the seller, he took 6 days to pay, and that was only after we messaged him to ask if there was an issue. (We would have been happier to wait had he messaged us to say "I can pay on Friday").
I will have a chat with DH now and try to persuade him to contact the buyer and change it to cash on delivery.

But it hasn't been possible to "inflate" postage on eBay at all for ages - recently I sold a pair of shoes on there and the maximum it would allow me to charge for signed-for delivery was something like £6.50. It cost £8 to post them . I've been using the Facebook selling page instead recently and made loads more than I would have on eBay

I agree OP. I've got a pile of stuff I was planning to list after the children go back to school but I think I'm going to find another way of selling it. My experience of ebay has been that as a general rule I've not made that much as it is with the fees. Paying them 10% of the postage costs I make no profit on anyway will just mean its not worth while for me any longer.

Off to explore other options

Little princess - have a look at other courier cos other than Royal Mail eg dhl, FedEx etc.

I use interparcel (on phone so can't link) for quotes. Get insurance as well. You'll get proof of posting as standard.

Hth

ebay has evolved. its not individual people getting rid of the odd unwanted item any more. its geared towards individuals for whom this is their shop window. try a local website to sell stuff. much easier and no p and p either. my problem with ebay is do the people buying and selling all the time actually pay tax? it is a business after all.

Thanks Urbanvoltaire I will have a look at that one you suggested. I had a look at the one a previous poster mentioned - Collect + I think it was called, and that seemed better than the post office. But will compare with the others. Thanks.