[meteorite-list] "Great News" to eBay sellers.

From: Galactic Stone and Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:46:26 -0400
Message-ID: <AANLkTikzQxmjNO62zjGwKfZj6GzVDPEKmgCN1Y70KWt1_at_mail.gmail.com>

Meteorite/eBay equation :

For buyers : heaven

For sellers : hell

It used to be heaven for both.

How long before it becomes hell for both? And if/when eBay goes on
the decline, we'll wax nostalgic about the good ole meteorite days
with 99 cent planetaries....


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On 3/16/11, Rob Holcomb <rob.holcomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I've given up on eBay at this point. Not that I've sold more than 4
> rocks there, but much other stuff. And I'm not going to simply PASS the
> shipping charges through to feeBay AND pay them to the post office. There
> are already too many fees, how about instituting a buyers premium? that
> would really shoot eBay in the foot.
> It is a load of ...
>
> Rob H
>
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> From: "Marcin Cimala" <marcin at meteoryt.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 5:15 PM
> To: <fallingfusion at wi.rr.com>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] "Great News" to eBay sellers.
>
>>> For those of you that sell on feeBay. Take alook at this "great news" to
>>> take affect on April 19th. This first paragraph seems too good to be
>>> true... but then look at the second paragraph - the final value fee will
>>> now be applied to shipping fees also! So basically, if you have to ship a
>>>
>>> large, heavy item.. eBay will charge you extra for it, even though
>>> shipping is done third party by the seller. What a load of....
>>>
>>> Ryan
>>
>> Hmm
>> Soon they will charge extra final value fees to all items that not sell as
>>
>> a punishment
>>
>> But this changes are not too bad. We will see how this will work
>>
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