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Re: eBid.net A Genuine Alternative to eBay ??
« on: September 12, 2008, 01:41:28 PM »
I just saw the other day that starting next month a seller will be limited to charging a maximum of $3 for shipping and handling of a CD.  I have charged $3.75 S&H for the last 2 years.  Postage is right around $2 and then you have to buy the shipper.  I guess there is no expense involved in buying paper for receipts, ink for the printer, and gas to get to the PO.  When I mentioned ink as an expense once to a buyer, he said that was really not much of an expense.  I said that I agreed with him most of the time, but not the once every 4 to 6 weeks when I had to pay $55 for a pair of cartridges.  It seemed like a very real expense then.  What the $3 maximum shipping fee boils down to is that ebay isn't collecting a big enough selling or listing fee from the places that charge $6 or $7 shipping for a CD.  They will try and pass this off as a protection for the buyer, when all it is is a way to make millions more profit each year.  The sellers will still make their money but Ebay will be getting a bigger cut.
 

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Re: eBid.net A Genuine Alternative to eBay ??
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2008, 04:30:45 PM »
We realize they are companies (really one company, Ebay bought Paypal years ago).  But the people you buy your home heating oil or Natural gas are companies too but there are laws to prevent them from price gouging.
If you think back companies that make a good profit and are satisfied with it and try to maintain it stay in business forever.  Companies that are always looking for ways to make more and more and more end up imploding and soon they are gone.  
They are really walking the line when it comes to some of the anit-trust laws and their time will come.  It's sad about their greed because they really have a neat thing going that everyone can enjoy.  But soon sellers will see they are making little or no profit and will move elsewhere or start doin something else.