Comments on: Online Sellers Feel the Sting of Rising Costs

By: fusgeyer

fusgeyer — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:04:03 +0000

Etsy is going to kill their site by continually raising fees. 6.5% plus .20 to list or relist every 4 months, plus processing fees, plus you sold too much forced advertising penalty, plus charging the final value fee on sales tax collected, the average seller is now spending 20-30% of the sale on fees. Not very seller friendly.

By: ebayrip

ebayrip — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 06:09:43 +0000

In reply to tsme35. I have probably 1500 in good auto parts and related items in my garage. I have no longer a place to sell this stuff. eBay buyer(s) are now programmed to scam you thanks to eBay themselves. Even my dad got a hot check from a buyer. The days for the common man are over on eBay. I hope they fold and go BK. Some company needs to wipe then off the face of the Earth with a new model.

By: PACE306

PACE306 — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 22:27:04 +0000

And these associated costs get passed right on to the buyer (as it should be)

Sadly eBay et al use a sellers shipping as some kind of profit center (and let’s temporarily skip how somehow they are justified to do so – they aren’t) and when the carriers raise prices – it’s free wings for all over at walkers, and free fry cleaning over at Amazon

Sellers should add a surcharge themselves ON eBay – but one way TOS’s make it impossible

By: tsme35

tsme35 — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 22:25:12 +0000

Little by little the smaller seller is dying, one raise at a time