[meteorite-list] "Great News" to eBay sellers.

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:28:31 -0700
Message-ID: <4D8155AF.50507_at_meteoritesusa.com>

Richard I wrote an article about this thing... You'd be surprised at
what this is going to do for/against sellers. Especially those large
volume sellers that ship internationally or many very heavy items.

Eric


On 3/16/2011 5:14 PM, Richard Kowalski wrote:
> --- On Wed, 3/16/11, fallingfusion at wi.rr.com<fallingfusion at wi.rr.com> wrote:
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>> Also, because we know buyers take into consideration the
>> total cost of an item, also starting April 19, to encourage
>> sellers to keep shipping costs low, the Final Value Fee will
>> be applied to the total amount of the sale, INCLUDING
>> SHIPPING."
>>
> That's a non sequitur.
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> The encouragement to keep shipping costs low is competition, not additional fees to the seller. It would be interesting to hear the two-step ebay needs to make to make these two things jive. My guess is smaller sellers get screwed and the larger sellers make special deals.
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> Nothing new under the Sun.
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Received on Wed 16 Mar 2011 08:28:31 PM PDT