IS IT LEGAL FOR EBAY TO MAKE PROFIT FROM SHIPPING?

[axe_n_gear_music]

Is it legal for eBay to make money on shipping costs?
It's one thing to pay them for advertising our product on their site and paying them commission fees (fvf) on the sale, but is it legal for them to profit on the shipping portion?
How much profit do these guys need out of us before they drive us all away?

They have already forced us in many cases to offer free shipping, which takes money out of our pockets (there is no such thing as free shipping anyway!)

Further, they already get the above mentioned money from us, plus the profit if the buyer uses Paypal because they own that too.

Maybe its time to offer a discount to the buyer ON EVERY LISTING if they call us to use their credit card instead of Paypal.

AXE

[momoftwingles2]

PJ and all,

Here's wishing and knowing that all of you are going to be able to work through this big roll out of Ebay's. I for one am glad that I'm sitting at the rink, but rest assured....I'm thinking about each and every one of you. There are some really experienced mentors on this board and I know they are going to be able to lead the way.

Now perhaps you get go over to Tim Horton's and roll up the rim and win and retire!

Susan

[westernstargifts]

PJ and all,

Here's wishing and knowing that all of you are going to be able to work through this big roll out of Ebay's. I for one am glad that I'm sitting at the rink, but rest assured....I'm thinking about each and every one of you. There are some really experienced mentors on this board and I know they are going to be able to lead the way.

Now perhaps you get go over to Tim Horton's and roll up the rim and win and retire!

Susan

So far we have won 2 coffees...not sure that we can retire yet though!:-)

[pjcdn2005]

((((Susan))))


Thanks Susan. I'm sure that everything will work out in the end for most of us but I think that I would rather be at the rink too. 🙂

I think that it is wonderful that you chose to spend more time with your family and I bet that all of you are loving it.

Don't forget to send one of one links every now and then for vids of your adorable and talented girls. That's assuming that there will be a day when you won't be able to get onto this board.....you seem to be lasting here longer than you thought you would!

[cumos55]

Chapters, a seller of books from a B & M, offers the following.

If you cannot find a book at the store in which you are... then they will ship it to you at no extra cost.

That is free shipping.

Chapters does not charge shipping.

What they are doing is spreading the cost of shipping one book on the sales of all books in all of their stores...


No one can offer free shipping on all of their inventory... and call it free shipping when it is shipping included.... That is misleading advertising....

definitely a "Don't"

If you list 100 items on eBay at a cost of $20 each

90 are listed with $10 shipping for a total cost of $30 each


the remaining 10 are listed with free shipping with a total cost of $20 each ...

The total cost of these last 10 items $100 is spread across the remaining 90 items... or at about $1.10 per item sold.

Many sellers on eBay are including a statement in their listing by stating that free shipping is in fact shipping included....

Free shipping is eBay's term... but has never been defined by eBay.

There is a reference on eBay.com that states free shipping is a way to mark down the price of a product... putting a product on sale...

As a business on eBay we do many things to make a sale... putting all of our inventory as free shipping, when in fact it is shipping included puts us in odds in relation to acceptable business practices..

and since eBay does not define free shipping, individual sellers are at fault and not eBay...

Based on what I have read... it is easier to identify a problem such as free shipping application in court that anything else one would encounter in court.

It is perception and not necessarily reality...

So be careful how you apply the free shipping part of your business.