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eBay Fees Going Up Again...
« on: March 03, 2010, 11:34:22 AM »
Bastards

Talk about abusing the market. When will they get referred to the monopolies commission?

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Re: eBay Fees Going Up Again...
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2010, 02:35:49 PM »
Crikey! That's a 100% to 200% increase on average. Like Ryan Air and other 'rack 'em up, stack 'em up' enterprises they just end up taking the piss.

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« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2010, 02:36:53 PM »
Bloody MCN has gone up to
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« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2010, 03:53:52 PM »
They are so greedy, but there are no real alternatives to reach such a huge amount of buyers or sellers,  they have hold of us by the boll---ks, and if any people start similar selling formats ebay just buy them up, i read somewhere that ebay own quite a few of the other sites that were trying to rival them, surely thats wrong just buying the opposition out so you have the monoply.
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« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2010, 01:21:56 PM »
+1 on that Pete they bought up Yahoo auctions years ago, which I thought was really good and prices were realistic.
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« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2010, 01:31:51 PM »
A bit of a piss taking price hike in places but the buyer protection is getting better, The paypal fee's are the real ouch for sellers though. I'm not 100% on this but I think they are still cheaper than conventional auctions As I'd expect - they do have less overheads
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« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2010, 03:25:35 PM »
If you sell at Bonhams, you pay 20% seller fees.
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« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2010, 05:49:43 PM »
I suppose you could argue that Bonham's has a pretty wide client base, or whatever you call it, plus some snazzy talking auctioneer to try and sell the item. Oh yea a catalogue is issued with your piece on it. What else erm..........clean toilets??
I s'ppose all that can justify 20%.
What gets me is that we, the Joe Blogg's of this world have the power to knock seven shades of shyte out of any mega corporation. I remember about 7 years ago, I think it was Shell (or Esso?) was getting a bit cocky with their petrol prices, so someone put out an e-mail urging everyone to forego 1 visit to either of these reteilers per week. The prices came down soon after, not by much but still by a token amount.
Why doesnt't every body just boycott Ebay for a month? Then we'll see them get the heebie-jeebie's.

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« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2010, 09:56:47 AM »
Talking about monopoly, the guvingmunt said they had to borrow even more money recently as their expected income from petrol & diesel sales dropped dramatically during the bad weather.

And don't get me started on the 'Passport Office'. They put the price of a new passport up...because fewer people were travelling abroad & not requiring new ones.
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