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eBay, stop charging seller fees on shipping

eBay, stop charging seller fees on shipping

Closed — 25 supporters Verified

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Lindsay G.
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Someone
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David O.
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Someone
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Cathy P.
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Amanda M.
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Someone
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melissa
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Melissa F.
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Rhonda T.
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Started by Anonymous 14 years ago
We believe that eBay should not be charging seller fees on shipping costs when the seller is charging true cost of shipping for the weight and style of shipment. Charging seller fees on shipping drives up the overall cost of the purchase when sellers try to "make up" for it by raising the price of the item (or shipping) to cover the fees, or it discourages honest sellers from selling on eBay, due to these unfair charges. Seeing that when a seller uses the eBay shipping application, eBay can actually see whether the seller shipped at cost (or at a mark up). We suggest that eBay should charge fees ONLY on shipping mark ups instead of on the entire shipping fee. eBay could do this by offering an "honest shipper perk" that requires shippers who would like to take advantage of this perk to use only the eBay shipping application.

Updates

April 19, 2013

Reading through all your stories about lost profits is eye-opening. We are compiling these experiences to show how this policy hurts the average seller.

4 Comments

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Dave Sanders
13 years ago Featured

FIX THIS. Charging fvfs on shipping is just greed. EBAY NEEDS TO STOP.

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Mike Lane
14 years ago Featured

ebay fees are out of control. they take a cut of everything now even the money i pay the post office. total robbery.

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Sarah Edwards
14 years ago Featured

It is so hard to make any profit anymore. Between the final value fees and the shipping tax it just isnt worth listing here anymore.

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Lindsay Grimsley
11 years ago

Ebay rewards the dishones. Ebay clearly stated in all policies that you are not allowed to charge any extra for shipping but yet they take 10% of shipping cost and 10% if auction sell price. I only charge exact shipping cost, so why should ebay get that I now have to pay that extra 10% to the post office out of my pocket so basically I am paying ebay 20% to list for free! After paying ebay that 10% shipping cost on a 3$ sale item, I might as well give it away as all the sale money has to go to ebay for the 10% final value fee and then again to the shipping fee. I am not sure why they get anything for shipping, they did not buy my shipping supplies, they did not drive it to the post office, they did not package it up? As an ebay member for 8 years now, I am tired of being taking advantage of and question the ethics of this company. Needless to say I would sign this petition 100% of the time!