Honda-SOHC
Other Stuff => Misc / Open => Topic started by: SteveD CB500K0 on March 03, 2010, 11:34:22 AM
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Bastards
Talk about abusing the market. When will they get referred to the monopolies commission?
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/2010_motors_fees/
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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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Bloody MCN has gone up to
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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.
Pete
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+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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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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If you sell at Bonhams, you pay 20% seller fees.
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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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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.