eBay

joshua_1988 · ‎06-12-2015

I won a item on ebay for $50 and the shipping was $22 with $13 in import charges. I asked the seller if he could remove the GSP import charges and he said he would have to cancell the order and repost it as buy now to remove this fee. I accepted the cancell order and he reposted the item as buy now for $69 and the shipping is still with GSP but now $35 and import fee of $15. Can anyone explain this to me. The seller said to make a offer for $50 and he would accept but the shipping is now $50 with import fees instead of $35 with import fees from the previous hour.

afantiques · ‎06-14-2015

American sellers who had been advised by eBay when the program started that GSP was essentially for items with a value of over $50.00

Minor correction, it was about a year after the start of the US GSP that any mention was made of suggested values, and at first there was not even a way to opt out of the GSP once you were in it. A few minor changes have been made over the three years it has been going.

00nevermind00 · ‎06-14-2015

@afantiques wrote:
American sellers who had been advised by eBay when the program started that GSP was essentially for items with a value of over $50.00

Minor correction, it was about a year after the start of the US GSP that any mention was made of suggested values, and at first there was not even a way to opt out of the GSP once you were in it. A few minor changes have been made over the three years it has been going.

Cosmetic, half-hearted attempts to make it look like the buyers actually matter in the grand GSP scheme of things. But we know they don't. The only purpose of the GSP is and always has been to grow international sales. Which it has but when you start from basically zero, there's really no way to go but up. It will be interesting to see if they continue to grow.

Buyers who despise the GSP should be voting with their back button. If enough buyers did this, maybe eBay/PB would be more willing to make a few real buyer-friendly changes to the program.

joshua_1988 · ‎06-15-2015

Ok marnotom. Clearing you dont know what your talking about.

I did win the auction.
I asked about the fee because i read that it is optional.
The seller was the one who persuaded me to cancell,
I was told by the seller that he was going to remove the fee and it should have been posted as a private sale. Thats the sellers fault.

Ontop of all this BULL**bleep**. It gave me the options to leave feedback but would not let me leave a negative or nutural feedback. So i thought id see if i could leave positive feedback. Boom it worked.
so unless someone from ebay contacts me because i have already tryed to contact them to either simply appologize or so something. (Which everyone knows they wont) im dont with this **bleep**ing online flea market scam called ebay

marnotom! · ‎06-15-2015

@joshua_1988 wrote:

Ok marnotom. Clearing you dont know what your talking about.

I'd say that statement with its typos and all, pretty well explains how and why you got into this mess in the first place.

chimera148 · ‎06-16-2015

@reid4311 wrote:
In the June 10th board hour the first question asked was about why American sellers who had been advised by eBay when the program started that GSP was essentially for items with a value of over $50.00 were continuing to list articles under that amount with GSP attached.

reid4311 · ‎06-16-2015

Well then if you read the question and answer in the board hour June 10th then one or the other is a contradiction. Either way, I don't shop with users, period! If they won't drop it, I don't buy it! Plain and simple.

1986puma · ‎06-20-2015

Under no circumstances would I buy anything from a seller participating in the GSP. I just saw an item that was auctioned and went for 19.99 and the GSP was over $123.00. Explain to who makes money on this. Lots of sellers lost my business.

chimera148 · ‎06-20-2015

@reid4311 wrote:
Well then if you read the question and answer in the board hour June 10th then one or the other is a contradiction. Either way, I don't shop with users, period! If they won't drop it, I don't buy it! Plain and simple.

Yes, the sellers are shown a much different perspective than that shown to buyers.

marnotom! · ‎06-21-2015

@1986puma wrote:

Under no circumstances would I buy anything from a seller participating in the GSP. I just saw an item that was auctioned and went for 19.99 and the GSP was over $123.00. Explain to who makes money on this. Lots of sellers lost my business.

Item number?

femmefan1946 · ‎06-21-2015

Slightly off topic, but duty if applicable is a percentage of the value of the item.

If one were buying solar collectors made in China, where there is no free trade agreement in place, the duty would be 286% of the purchase price.

My BIL recently bought a dozen collectors which will cover about a third of his annual hydro bill. Each cost him $245. Duty on this would be $700.70 each if they had been Chinese made instead of US made. For a total of $945.70 each.

So the price of the item is important, but the buyer should know the rate at which duty should be applied before bidding.