eBAY Limits What Sellers Can Charge For Shipping & Handling
September 30th, 2008 by admin and tagged ebay, ebay shipping, john donahoeeBay continues to make really ignorant decisions. John Donahoe is an idiot. Yes, I know he went to Dartmouth and Stanford, but he must not have ever learned the saying “don’t fix what isn’t broke.” John Donahoe, you are an idiot. Starting in October, eBay will begin limiting what a seller can charge for Shipping & Handling. They will start in the “media” categories. The most a seller will be able to charge is $4.00 for shipping an item.
I often sell vintage record albums. The albums measure 12″x12″ inches in size. I buy specially cut-out cardboard to use as packaging material. I buy oversized bubble mailers to ship most record albums, or even specially sized cardboard boxes for more expensive record albums. Plus my postage and time, I will lose money by shipping these record albums for $4.00.
The US Postal Service allows for “media mail” to weigh as much as 70lbs! I also often sell large collections of books which weigh nearly 50lbs. These CANNOT be shipped for only $4.00 as eBay insists. So what are we supposed to do? eBay tells us to use the shipping calculator to charge actual shipping costs. Ridiculous. So sellers aren’t supposed to be compensated for their time and packing materials? Only shipping costs?
I know, I know, eBay says to raise my starting price. Are you kidding? I start all my auctions at 99 cents. If I start my auctions higher, eBay charges more. This is all a ploy by eBay to capture more of our money, and they think sellers are too stupid to realize it.
Posted in General, Selling on eBay, US Postal Service, online auctions | 3 Comments »
October 20th, 2008 at 3:34 am
it is also very difficu;lt for foreign seler who sell records on ebay US site ($4 instead of $12 ???).
Furthur it is also the end of Lot auctions ( cd lot / lp lot etc). Ebay will alllow only $4 as shiping no matter how many items present in the lot.
July 4th, 2009 at 3:42 am
eBay – what a bunch of complete morons. Didn’t anyone ever explain to the two-bit idiots that run eBay (listen up, John Donahoe), “If it’s not broken, DON’T FIX IT!”. They had the perfect site, the perfect business model, and then they decided to just flush it all down the toilet a couple years ago. Hey eBay – you stupid sh*ts – stop trying to be like Amazon! You USED TO BE BETTER than AMAZON. I bought almost everything on eBay! Now I don’t even bother, I just go to Amazon. It’s easier to find what I need, and it’s CHEAPER. Oh yeah, and I will NEVER SELL AGAIN on eBay – tired of getting ass-raped of all my profits and I”m sick of having auctions cancelled for NO APPARENT REASON, or for reasons that make NO LOGICAL SENSE. These dolts need to all take some remedial classes. The first one – “Common Sense 101″. Get a freaking clue, because you obviously have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what you’re doing. The sellers fled, and now the shareholders are bailing like rats from a sinking ship.
October 18th, 2009 at 12:35 am
Yes, he’s an idiot – as was Meg Whitman before him – who started eBay on the whole downward spiral. isn’t merely a question of education, with the state of our present economy one needs to wonder if our MBA programs are even relevant … indeed, how many MBA candidates would even graduate if one of the requirements were to found and manage a business. And then there’s the question of CEO pay. When the pay is tied to the stock, well, it just goes to figure that CEOs will use any kind of crooked manipulation tactic under the sun to artificially ramp up immediate profits – with a complete disregard for the long-term success of the company. Watching eBay disintegrate is like watching the American auto industry at utter warp speed. Altho, frankly, I know of no other company – other than eBay – who has routinely and decidedly spit in the faces of their very customers. For we sellers are their customers – not the buyers (who are our customers). What a fiasco.