Aweandlorder

12 hours ago, Lightning55 said:

I hear ya, but it's nothing new for eBay.  It's all corporate babble now, spinning it as only eBay can.  It's all about grabbing the 1% that PayPal was netting on a sale.  PP charges 3%, but they don't get to keep it.  They have to give the credit card company that was used most of it.  They are just a pass-through, as eBay is now with their processing fee.  But I'm sure it is a lot of money with the scale of it all.  When they were "related" companies, it didn't matter.  Now it does.

This is only the beginning.  There is still a wide gap between what eBay charges and what Amazon charges.  That should tighten over time.  Why should eBay get less, they will figure. 

Online sales is not the new frontier it once was.  Things have changed, the pie slices are smaller and have multiplied.  Everyone's waiting impatiently for the "next, new big thing".

Well that was my point. I’m quite happy with what amazon charges me, I get to move inventory there that I mostly can’t move anywhere else (including eBay) 

Do I wish Amazon would charge me less? Sure I won’t say no to pay less. But it’s their platform and their rules. 
there are many things in life that I wish I paid less for (cough cough NY property tax cough) but as long as it works for me I will gladly pay for it

Thing is, eBay is not being transparent with their charges which is disturbing. Especially since they sign you to a contractual agreement which they fail to disclose its full charges. Not cool

16 minutes ago, Lightning55 said:

Because a listing fee is NOT a FINAL VALUE FEE.  It's a separate issue.  You keep dragging listing fees into FVF's and they have nothing to do with them.  There has always been a big divide between the two.

This same point of argument has come up before, almost every time the FVF is discussed over the past 20 years.  EBay is always careful NOT to add it to the conversation, just ignoring the listing fees, as they know it's a sore spot.  But every time they change the FVF's, the listing fees are still intact.  Then when questioned about it, eBay says, "We never mentioned listing fees, why would you assume they were being changed or omitted?"  So every 5 years or so it's like the Groundhog Day movie.  People think, by omission, that eBay will abandon the listing fees.  Never happens.

If thats the case that not just a whole buncha baloney but its also very misleading for them not to mention that. Just when you think eBay is stepping in the right direction

Overall, as I said earlier, I always preferred the way that Amazon handled the business with sellers more than eBay. And this new eBay seller accounting strategy looks like its lifted straight off their website. So I cant say I have anything against that. Unless they are gonna charge us some other nonsensical fees

15 minutes ago, Lightning55 said:

unless I see the explicit words "There will be no listing fee"

You just did:

"you will pay only one final value fee"

Which includes, as they state; category-based percentage of the total amount of the sale (thats the 10% fee) , plus a $0.30 fixed fee per order

If you had to pay additional fees, such as the 0.20-.30 cent listing fee, I would imagine that they would include that in that statement PLUS not call it a one final value fee, why wouldnt they? 

But again, we will have to see

21 minutes ago, Lightning55 said:

This has nothing to do with listing fees or store fees.  It's speaking specifically to Final Value Fees.  The listing fees have not changed.

Hm well according to their wording this seems like there is only one final value fee. Read again:

Once activated for managed payments starting late July, you will pay only one final value fee, consisting of a category-based percentage of the total amount of the sale, plus a $0.30 fixed fee per order, with no third-party payments processing fees (such as to PayPal).   

No where do they mention that we will pay a final value fee in addition to listing fees. Unless you have any information that indicates that elsewhere?

Very curious about this, because that EXACTLY how Amazon works which I always liked better than eBay
 

I have a question about this part

so does that mean that eBay will stop charging for listing fees in advance and only bill us 30 cents per sale?

if so I actually like that better than paying 20-30 cents per listing PRIOR to selling

5 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Ah, sorry about that Awe. I knew there was another thread somewhere, but do you think I could find it? And I see I posted in it too!  Hopefully a kindly mod will see this and merge mine into yours 

On 4/30/2020 at 8:20 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Probably a thread about this somewhere...

 

How quickly they forget 

Some from not too long ago. All came out NM including the uf4 var

this dude had a weird listing title. He used the newsstand UPC code as the title. Don’t even remember how I came across this. One of them was a mj edition

Y’all rookies 

On 5/5/2020 at 1:40 PM, PeterPark said:

People like doop.

Try saying it three times fast 

10 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

My grand daughters call him "the package guy"  

 

That’s the most adorable video I’ve seen in a long while. God bless their little hearts

And of course if you ship priority you already get your package insured up to $50

34 minutes ago, silverweb said:

I send almost all my books Priority Mail and they usually get there in the expected time. I do not add insurance since I have Collectibles Insurance. They do require a signature for the insurance coverage to be in effect. I might use Media Mail if I have a bunch of lower value raws to ship 

My point was that insuring WITH THE POST OFFICE proves to be faster to me as of late. Of course it’s good to have insurance on your books through an agency, but that unfortunately won’t expedite your shipment during this current crisis

Last note - I found out that insuring your packages (even those for less than $10) gets the item to ship faster. This makes sense to me from the post office stand point, they probably prioritize insured mail, so its probably worth the buck or 2 to do that during these times

Sellers- you MUST explain this to your buyers. If you do not they will assume the worst. 

Heres a template that I am using (fill in the blank with your case date)

The post office is being very slow this month due to the current crisis and many packages are being pulled off route and shipped to other facilities because some are sadly closed. I am in touch with the USPS daily to get new tracking information and guideline updates and am very familiar with whats going on. Your books were shipped on _______, a ____ after your purchase date so we know there were no delays there. Sorry it takes so long but it’s really out of our control. Im certain you will receive this, just like many other orders I fulfilled which sadly arrived later than usual (some arrived unexpectedly quick even). But so far everyone has received their orders with no errors/lost package cases, but in the event that anything like that will happen, you will absolutely get FULLY compensated.
Stay safe
Dan

On 4/28/2020 at 12:37 PM, mrwoogieman said:

I mailed out 11 parcels on April 18th (here on Long Island NY) and 6 of them were routed through Des Moines, Iowa, including one meant for my own town(!), Baltimore, PA and other non-Iowa destinations.

Yup, thats exactly whats happening now. Some facilities are closed/shut down and in order to keep the shipment going they re being re-routed to other facilities that are active. Kinda like re-routing your GPS to a longer route when you hit traffic. 

MCP weapon X storyline seems to be on the move again  

On 4/23/2020 at 2:09 PM, fastballspecial said:

Well hopefully some of your are benefitting from stimulus money.
There was a period time last week where I was making 2 trips to PO in one 
day. Its been a very good 2 weeks of sales.

The only question now is how long will it last.

 

It’s totally insane. I never thought in a million years I’d have so many sales. Amazon was slow till last week I assume because they prioritized sales of essential goods on their platform but it almost felt as if they “opened the gates” last week and I’ve been flooded with orders there as well. I’m at 300% my monthly average this month and with one more week to go at this pace I’m sure it’ll be 400. I’ve racked 1200$ from cash sales alone this month pretty much delivering comics just from fb/craigslist. About 7k off eBay mostly.... just stunning

5 hours ago, bobotski said:

Stan Lee, Jim Lee, Alvin Lee 

5 hours ago, jjonahjameson11 said:

+ Jae Lee

5 hours ago, Bax77 said:

Paul Lee too.

3 hours ago, telerites said:

 

 

And this comic guy 

And Bruce... Bruce lee

Thank god there aren’t The Liefelds

A few years ago I bought a collection of some 3-4,000 books mostly bronze with some late silvers and 70% of them had date stamps. All were in incredible condition as well. Kept this collection without grading. Maybe next year ill get to send some in... 

27 minutes ago, kimik said:

Has there been some recent movement on the reboot? My CGC 9.8 Masters of the Universe #1 (Marvel/Star) is blowing up on Clink this week and I am trying to figure out why. 

Yup sold a couple of MOTUs today as well... wonder whats going on

2 hours ago, aardvark88 said:

Actually, I would choose Mike Golden over Jack Guice, a clone of Golden. John Stanley on Little Lulu and Tubby art?

Joe Simon and Marshall Rogers did not even make it on the OP's list.

I never thought about Jackson guice being a Golden clone but now that you mention it....