ebay free postage & packaging

[deltadelta48]

No the £190,000 is what the correct price was at typing for a single 30 sec advert (airtime) during the show X factor

Huge chunk of change, especially considering that most ads are 60 seconds! Can you imagine what the budgets are of huge companies that we see ad after ad every night are?

[raindropsies]

Huge chunk of change, especially considering that most ads are 60 seconds! Can you imagine what the budgets are of huge companies that we see ad after ad every night are?

Maybe 60 secs in USA but not over here.

If you re-read my postings on this subject you should see that I am not saying that the TV adverts are "serious" possibility.

[cherokee47]

We dont really need TV viewers, we need internet users.
Direct links from ISP's front pages would be more effective (and cheaper).

[craig7501]

Regarding this voucher, as I see it........
X buys the voucher from Paypal........
X gives the voucher to Y as a gift......
Y logs onto eBid and spends the voucher with Z
Z gets the voucher value from Paypal.

Simples!!!

Thanks, that was what I was trying to get at

[CarnoustieCats]

But would PayPal play along - like how much of a cut would they take (I know, mean as sin I am)

[cherokee47]

There's probably a condition that you must pay the full ammount through Paypal so they get their 3.4%+20p as usual.

[baconsdozen]

The title of this thread is a bit misleading,it should be
"Ebay wont allow you to charge postage so you have to add it to the item cost,the reason they do it is to claw back more fees and make it a bit more via paypal as well.
Withe maybe the sub title "Ebays buyers aren't as daft as they think and know there is no such thing as free post"
As for TV,spread the word yourselves via forums,web sites etc etc,There's no such thing as free advertising on TV,if ebid do it (and I doubt it will make a scrap of difference to sales) we'll pay for it.

[sovereignman]

No sales = No FVF
Sellers are flocking to eBid in their drones because they searched for an alternative to ebay(myself included), but, at the moment, there is no incentive to bring over the buyers.
I for one would be willing to pay extra FVF if it brought in the buyers.

Just list something on e-bay and and set a link to your link to sales at ebid if every seller did this on ebid it would drive sales to ebid. That's what Im doing for my part.

[moonwitch]

I have bought several books this week from 3 different sites...2 sites charge 'postage inclusive' prices and the other charges a fixed price for postage on books sold by marketplace sellers....I am really puzzled at why there is so much fuss about having to include the cost of the postage in the final price of items on eBay.

I almost always buy books from the 2 sites I used this week where the postage cost is inclusive and I also sell on both sites.

[CarnoustieCats]

My daughter used to list a lot of books at 99p - ie free listing. Now they charge her 10p a book - and they take the fvf on the whole amount, not just the price of the book - the pennies really add up. Needless to say she is moving after the Xmas/NewYear period...