Originally Posted by
gazlannathai
Please don't open the door for repetition on eBid of what happened on eBay.
Additionally, if you want eBid to grow, please think further than your own business practises - any introduction of this type of feature completely kills the ability of overseas sellers to attract buyers - including the attractiveness of the listings of those overseas sellers to you as well.
eBid buyers are perfectly capable of performing the maths of product price plus shipping - evne though eBid also does it for them.
Remember "shipping included" pricing also kills the multi-item discounted shipping sales technique, and a great many sellers on here have built their business around that (either here exclusively, or "over there", or both) and one reason sellers are leaving the dark side in droves has been because of fleecebay's "free" shipping policies and shipping charge caps.
I'm in Thailand, but if I list on eBay UK or US, in the categories that include around 60% of my product ranges, I am only allowed to charge the same shipping as sellers based in those countries, or in many categories now, the shipping has to be fully included in the item price and under best match search, that pushes me way to the back of the pack.
The fleecebay forums are often stating "be careful what you wish for" - fleecebay is in the mess it is today because too many people did not do enough forward thinking before crying out for measures they thought would give them personally a selling advantage - please don't introduce the same syndrome here, we don't need it, have never really had it, and to be honest, don't want it.
Gaz