eBay overcharging on fees

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03-12-2008 10:51 AM
Fees are published here
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/storefees.html
GTC Store listing £0.01-£4.99 - £0.03 / 30 days
Store Listing Gallery £0.01-£4.99 - £0.03 / 30 days
But, that is not what I am charged.
All my listings are quantity listings with £0.01-£4.99 items or lots. I am charged £0.04-£0.12 plus £0.04-£0.12 for Gallery.
Looks like bait & switch tactic to me.
eBay peon, please don't me I should get this resolved with ebay.co.uk. My account in question is with ebay.ca and when I actually tried to register it at co.uk, it switched me back to ebay.ca.
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03-12-2008 03:18 PM
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03-13-2008 10:53 AM
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03-13-2008 05:17 PM
Interesting. Really?
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03-13-2008 07:38 PM
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03-13-2008 11:46 PM
The system automatically bumps you to the country your address is in. If you want to register on eBay UK you have to have a UK address. You don't need to register on eBay UK though. Log into that site and list your item directly. Pay attention to the shipping optins as the will be geared to using Royal Mail.

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03-14-2008 12:16 AM
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03-17-2008 01:30 AM
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Wonder what eBay is doing with this problem and how it generates these useless emails, but I speculate everytime someone opens my message it sends me this email and since they have no answer to that it's status keeps being open. It's way past 24 hours, even way past 72 hours. Maybe they think that everytime they send this email, it resets the 72hrs clock ...
It's a simple problem. Also happens to me occasionally and when I mistakenly overcharge the customer, I log to PayPal and refund the difference and pay more attention for a while so it does not happen very often.
eBay is ridiculously ignorant company. I wonder how do they stay in business and how do they stay so popular.
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03-17-2008 02:48 AM
Perhaps but I'm still not getting what your problem is.
Give me the exact details of a sample listing.

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03-17-2008 09:19 AM
For example this listing:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320227366685
Was billed:
12-Mar-08 03:00:14 GMT 50x 1N4007 Rectifier Diode 1000V/1A (better 1N4001)
Insertion fee of GBP 0.08 converted to C $0.16 at a rate of 2.01156 (as of 11-Mar-08). 320227366685 Insertion Fee Store Inventory C $0.16
Then I realized co.uk does not automatically add gallery and added gallery to my listings:
12-Mar-08 14:06:22 GMT 50x 1N4007 Rectifier Diode 1000V/1A (better 1N4001)
Fee of GBP 0.08 converted to C $0.16 at a rate of 1.99468 (as of 11-Mar-08). 320227366685 Gallery Fee C $0.16
Instead of £0.03 for listing and £0.03 for gallery they billed £0.08 + £0.08.
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03-17-2008 09:24 AM
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03-17-2008 10:10 AM
eBay peon here ... not sure why this is happening for you but will try to get you an answer in a timely manner. My first thought is that it has something to do with billing currency, but let me get a more definitive ruling on that.
Cheers,
Miriam
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03-17-2008 10:55 AM
I am actually hoping for this to resolve before I list hundreeds of GTC listings. My 17 or so testing listings are performing quite well I think, there were 3 sales already during the first week. Seems Germans are also shopping on co.uk.
Perhaps this might be a good idea for other PowerSellers too to grow their business. I find European customers much more lenient to slower and expensive shipping and I also get the feeling CanadaPost service to UK is somewhat faster than to US.
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03-17-2008 03:17 PM
For example this listing:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320227366685
12-Mar-08 03:00:14 GMT 50x 1N4007 Rectifier Diode 1000V/1A (better 1N4001)
Insertion fee of GBP 0.08 converted to C $0.16 at a rate of 2.01156 (as of 11-Mar-08). 320227366685 Insertion Fee Store Inventory C $0.16
Looks ok to me based on the fees listed here:
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/storefees.html
Note: The Shop Inventory Format Insertion Fee will be calculated based upon the opening value of your items. The opening value is the fixed item price multiplied by the quantity of your items available. This value is then compared to the insertion fees tiers and the appropriate insertion fee is charged.
For example:
If you list 5 items at £0.99, the total equals £4.95. This falls within the first tier of £0.00 - £4.99 and the insertion fee will be £0.03.
If you list 5 items at £1.50, the total equals £7.50. This falls within the second tier of £5.00 - £9.99 and the insertion fee will be £0.05.
And so on. The maximum insertion fee for a multiple-item listing is £0.11.

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03-17-2008 10:02 PM
I missed that the co.uk charges by the total value of the listing. So everything is in order then I just have to list what I might sell over month instead of just dumping my inventory to eBay and let buyers buy as much as they need.
recped, you are one of the most helpful persons contributing here. If you are not on eBay payroll, you should be.
