eBay Coupons

You may have heard of eBay. It is a very popular international online market. There are many, many items available for auction or sale at eBay. The marketplace is overseen and regulated by eBay, but almost all business is conducted directly and entirely between buyer and seller. Buyer protection, to a certain degree, is maintained by eBay. With a little patience and common sense, eBay can be a safe and pleasurable marketplace.

Ebay's fees are too high now for a small seller to barely make any profit and they've announced that their fees are going higher yet! This has forced the small seller to either raise their prices (which isn't competitive) OR many small sellers have had to charge the buyer a little more for shipping charges to offset the fees. Remember that Ebay took over Paypal, and Paypal charges it's own fees on top of the Ebay fees! Ebay has literally squeezed out the small seller that typically sells the DVDs or books they have around the house, unwanted gifts they've received, yard sale treasures they've found, collections they've decided to part with because they need a couple of $$. The Post Office is raising their prices AGAIN, so now Ebay is raising their selling fees again. Ebay used to charge an insertion fee to list the item PLUS a "final fee" to the seller only on the price the seller sold the item for. Now Ebay has decided (in April '11) to charge the seller a "final fee" on the price the item sold for + on the shipping cost to ship the item to the buyer. Like any retail store, once seller's costs go up; they have to charge the buyer to make up the difference OR it will not be profitable to sell anything! Ebay is just greedy and has ruined the foundation of their "empire"; which buyer & seller equally enjoyed for many years...and which made Ebay the "big corporation" it is today! NOW, it is clearly impossible for the small seller to make a couple of dollars on Ebay. Big business and greedy corporations STINK!