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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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 Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:36 am Post subject: I just got killed by e-bay, paypal, and shipping rates |
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Wow, I feel like I just got raped.
E-bay price to sell $300 worth of blu-rays: $18.86
Pay-pal charges to use paypal: $14.20
Shipping charges US MAIL: $55.00 with $5 insurance
I'm done using E-bay for selling. Just not worth it. Same with Paypal. And I won't be shipping anything international anytime soon. Had to send them to France. They don't allow standard shipping by US mail anymore. You must pay expensive priority charges. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Damn...u could have sold them to me. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:29 pm Post subject: Re: I just got killed by e-bay, paypal, and shipping rates |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
Wow, I feel like I just got raped.
E-bay price to sell $300 worth of blu-rays: $18.86
Pay-pal charges to use paypal: $14.20
Shipping charges US MAIL: $55.00 with $5 insurance
I'm done using E-bay for selling. Just not worth it. Same with Paypal. And I won't be shipping anything international anytime soon. Had to send them to France. They don't allow standard shipping by US mail anymore. You must pay expensive priority charges. |
Isn't it customary to make the buyer pay shipping and handling? You could have had yourself a tidy $4 profit! |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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The buyer should be paying the shipping.
You are right, paypal and ebay is a big ripoff. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject: Re: I just got killed by e-bay, paypal, and shipping rates |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
| I'm done using E-bay for selling. Just not worth it. |
For small ticket items, no, it isn't. The nickle and diming with their fees just kills any profit margin you may have had. Selling my comics and a few other bigger ticket items went a lot better, but yeah, eBay is not really the place for selling (especially from Korea). |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject: Re: I just got killed by e-bay, paypal, and shipping rates |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| bassexpander wrote: |
| I'm done using E-bay for selling. Just not worth it. |
For small ticket items, no, it isn't. The nickle and diming with their fees just kills any profit margin you may have had. Selling my comics and a few other bigger ticket items went a lot better, but yeah, eBay is not really the place for selling (especially from Korea). |
I'm in the US now. It was the big sale that killed me.  |
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