Ebay seller fees raised to 10% starting April 16th

[Bosco685]

PayPal is not the only form of payment, though obviously the most frequent. But there are only certain types which will lead to buyer protection.

 

http://pages.ebay.com/paypal/buyer/

 

 

[Bosco685]

By the way, those other methods of payments are merchant gateways. So it is interesting Ebay has to factor in the gateway method into describing a method of payment. It must have been legal that forced them to note this since payments can be so tricky with gateway interfaces.

 

As much as Ebay/PayPal have been pushing Bill Me Later, I'm surprised that isn't mentioned since they spent a few billion buying them as well. I guess they are considered a payment type within the PayPal family since it is deferred payment.

[Bosco685]

Wow! That was too hard searching for the acceptable payment method information.

 

So checks and money orders are allowed in certain transactions. I had never found this clearly outlined.

 

And I can accept whatever if items are picked up face-to-face, which means cash or trade (or chickens in certain states of the USA).

 

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy.html

[sterlingcomics]

Looks like eBay has grown up to become a thriving monopoly.Sounds like people are finally coming to the conclusion that I came to in 2007---use ComicLink or other third party resellers.

 

So ~15% for eBay or 10% for other venues. Not a hard decision for me. And ComicLink takes the risk.

[Bosco685]

Looks like eBay has grown up to become a thriving monopoly.Sounds like people are finally coming to the conclusion that I came to in 2007---use ComicLink or other third party resellers.

 

So ~15% for eBay or 10% for other venues. Not a hard decision for me. And ComicLink takes the risk.

 

Once they had a form of payment as a business division, they had the potential to own the entire transaction engagement between a seller and buyer other than providing the shipping. And with that, they encourage you going through PayPal to get the shipping discount as a seller.

 

Bill Me Later addressed for larger transactions that would usually end up in a layway if the ticket is high enough in a brick-and-mortar engagement. Just in there case, Chase underwrites the transaction risk and allows the buyer to take control of the goods immediately.

 

Fun times!

[ComicConnoisseur]

It looks like selling $15.00 and under comics there will be little or no profit after fees,supplies, and shipping?