Ebay/Paypal's ridiculous fees

[Duetschpire]

Duetschpire, do you have any fees for sellers other than the escrow fee?  Looks very reasonable if so, just curious, I'm glad I found this since I've been looking for a crypto auction site for a while now.

We charge a flat 2.5% fee on sold items. Escrow fee (when escrow is used) gets charged to the buyer on top of the final amount, not to the seller.

Please check our Frequently Asked Questions for more info

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[Watermelondea]

Despite all the douchebaggery of Ebay its relatively safe at least.. But still they get no excuse for their fees 

[AlPutino]

There is never enough hate in this world for ebay and paypal

[solitude]

bump

[fiona6622]

Despite all the douchebaggery of Ebay its relatively safe at least.. But still they get no excuse for their fees  

100% agree with you, eBay is safe for buyer. Buyer can play with the seller as he want. If a seller is unlucky and find some scamer, in most of case the seller loosing 3 things; money, goods and reputation (negative feedback)

About fee i don't mind. If i would do google adwords to get customers, the charges would be much higer than the eBay fees...

[ShakyhandsBTCer]

Despite all the douchebaggery of Ebay its relatively safe at least.. But still they get no excuse for their fees  

100% agree with you, eBay is safe for buyer. Buyer can play with the seller as he want. If a seller is unlucky and find some scamer, in most of case the seller loosing 3 things; money, goods and reputation (negative feedback)

About fee i don't mind. If i would do google adwords to get customers, the charges would be much higer than the eBay fees...

You do realize that, because of those fees, you are essentially paying a much higher price for what you are buying then if the fees were not there?

[halfawake]

Duetschpire, do you have any fees for sellers other than the escrow fee?  Looks very reasonable if so, just curious, I'm glad I found this since I've been looking for a crypto auction site for a while now.

We charge a flat 2.5% fee on sold items. Escrow fee (when escrow is used) gets charged to the buyer on top of the final amount, not to the seller.

Please check our Frequently Asked Questions for more info

Thanks.  I didn't realize that the escrow fee was charged to the buyer not the seller, but that makes sense to me.  I think I read the Fee System FAQ but somehow didn't see the fee charges FAQ above it.  You might consider combining the two into one FAQ, neither of them are that big and it'd make the info a little easier to find in my opinion.

[CoinGeneral]

Yeah selling on eBay is a complete rip off! For any item you sell, they basically take 15%, rounded up, that's without shipping included. The lowest shipping price you can ship an item for is $1.93 and that's the lighest item possible.

The shipping fees only go up the heavier the item is. Plus you also have to buy the shipping material, tape, pack it all up, drive to the nearest post office, then stand in line for who knows how long, and then drive all the way back home which might be far away.

Protip: if you want to sell on eBay, make sure no one on Craigslist wants it first.

[ferall]

I run a non eBay business and accept PayPal as payment, for example if someone pays me £60, I end with with £57.76 in my pocket, £2.24 to PayPal.

As my business is virtual, and I'm not posting items etc, I don't mind it all that much, 99% comes from PayPal now, with only 1% opting for bank transfer.

Bitcoin next.

[Mayuyu48]

I run a non eBay business and accept PayPal as payment, for example if someone pays me £60, I end with with £57.76 in my pocket, £2.24 to PayPal.

As my business is virtual, and I'm not posting items etc, I don't mind it all that much, 99% comes from PayPal now, with only 1% opting for bank transfer.

Bitcoin next.

it's 3.73% per transaction, paypal fee is expensive
even without selling on ebay
but it seems you have many customers that use paypal to buy your digital goods
hope you will use bitcoin for payment options and make your customers get interested in bitcoin

[ferall]

I run a non eBay business and accept PayPal as payment, for example if someone pays me £60, I end with with £57.76 in my pocket, £2.24 to PayPal.

As my business is virtual, and I'm not posting items etc, I don't mind it all that much, 99% comes from PayPal now, with only 1% opting for bank transfer.

Bitcoin next.

it's 3.73% per transaction, paypal fee is expensive
even without selling on ebay
but it seems you have many customers that use paypal to buy your digital goods
hope you will use bitcoin for payment options and make your customers get interested in bitcoin

It is expensive, that's for sure, you are correct, all my customers use PayPal, that's another reason I have to use them 

I will start accepting Bitcoin as payment soon, cheers

[solitude]

bumping for great justice

[ShakyhandsBTCer]

I run a non eBay business and accept PayPal as payment, for example if someone pays me £60, I end with with £57.76 in my pocket, £2.24 to PayPal.

As my business is virtual, and I'm not posting items etc, I don't mind it all that much, 99% comes from PayPal now, with only 1% opting for bank transfer.

Bitcoin next.

it's 3.73% per transaction, paypal fee is expensive
even without selling on ebay
but it seems you have many customers that use paypal to buy your digital goods
hope you will use bitcoin for payment options and make your customers get interested in bitcoin

Your 3.73% does not count the risk that you take on that the buyer's account is somehow compromised or that you will encounter a chargeback, even if you win the chargeback you will have to invest some amount of additional time into the transaction.

[bitmarket.io]

fuck paypal. fuck them. can't wait for bitcoin to go completely mainstream. crush that toxic cesspool paypal

[Jamacn]

Hurry to accept bitcoin payment.

[smoothie]

Whoever makes an equivalent site may take a huge market share away from Ebay once Ebay wakes up and decides to be a part of the Bitcoin movement.

[ronskii]

How do people use paypal so much? Really, what is the reason? They are f-ing people over constantly. Both with their fees (try to convert currencies as a merchant) and account frezing..

[shogdite]

Yeah fuck ebay, I closed my account with them recently. Problem is there's no real competitors so they've got a monopoly over other auction sites. Used to like Bitmit back in the day, still hoping for a decent crypto auction site.

[solitude]

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[Sheldor333]

The only alternative I've seen so far to PayPal is Stripe https://stripe.com/.
Other then that there is BitCoin of course, but most important would be a good auction site, because they have their own fees.
Would like to see a good alternative to it.