What a rip-off!!

[Rasputin]

not only ebay robbs you of your profits, the postal services does the same,also paypal charges you to receive money. just give it away is what it boils down to. i have sorta got use to it. what else can you do. $$$$= sorry governing. ive been robbed again. happens dailey, now days.

Hmmm...Seems to me that profits are considered after expenses. If postal service and Ebay, Paypal, etc are part of doing business then they did not cut into any of your profits. If your profits were based before expenses the shame is on you not Ebay, who has the coverage for me to find what I need and usually when I need it. As a buyer I also suffer the fees and the sellers need to profit, which usually produces the storefront we all now know and hate.

[Rasputin]

Reality of it is, they have a service to offer. No where elese I know of will you reach as broad of an audience for your goods or services. So, they demand a fee. You just have to set your pricing of your parts accordingly. It is very high and it does suck. But then, craigslist only reaches so many folks, typically only local. So your pricing is limited as your number of buyers goes down drastically.

Honestly, it is truly the law of supply and demand and good ole fashion capitalism at work. I don't like the fee, but then, I can't blame them for asking for it. If enough business drops off, they will lower the fee, until then, it will probably go up again. It may be there way of limiting the size of the servers and traffic they have to pay for.

Well said!

[SFSPECBIKER79]

ebay

not only ebay robbs you of your profits, the postal services does the same,also paypal charges you to receive money. just give it away is what it boils down to. i have sorta got use to it. what else can you do. $$$$= sorry governing. ive been robbed again. happens dailey, now days.

[cywelchjr]

Cy,

Is that the yard that is always on Craig's list looking for parts?

Might be, it's Rancho Motorcycle Recycling. They say they will get parts from other places, but they add a fee onto the price of the part, it's almost always cheaper to find the other place on ebay (most of them are on there now) and buy direct.

[DGXSER]

Reality of it is, they have a service to offer. No where elese I know of will you reach as broad of an audience for your goods or services. So, they demand a fee. You just have to set your pricing of your parts accordingly. It is very high and it does suck. But then, craigslist only reaches so many folks, typically only local. So your pricing is limited as your number of buyers goes down drastically.

Honestly, it is truly the law of supply and demand and good ole fashion capitalism at work. I don't like the fee, but then, I can't blame them for asking for it. If enough business drops off, they will lower the fee, until then, it will probably go up again. It may be there way of limiting the size of the servers and traffic they have to pay for.

[xs11lover]

The deals are on Craig's list. Back when I was a seller on Ebay I would buy on craigslist and sell on ebay. The deals are still out there it just takes a little more work/risk.

[b.walker5]

We have the same thing happening here with our local site Trademe.co.nz It was started by a couple of students who were looking for cheap furniture for their apartment, and was limited to private sellers. 7 years later it was bought by Fairfax Media for 700 million. now its open to anyone and the corporate's are taking over. Prices are going up, fee's are going up, private sellers are getting less, and Fairfax (aka Rupert Murdoch) recently announced that it was for sale again if someone wanted to pay more than 1.2 billion.

Same story with many businesses though, start small and grow, sell out to a corporate, greed takes over and they price themselves out of the average mans market. People loose interest, the corporate looses profits for their investors, try to sell to appease investors, collapse and die.

In the meantime the average man has started another business (craigslist) and the cycle starts again.

[latexeses]

and what the charge to go out and find a part they don't have

Cy,

Is that the yard that is always on Craig's list looking for parts?

[cywelchjr]

While you can't find the smokin deals you used to find, you can still find deals that can be a little hard to find locally, only because the pool is larger. I always try local first, and then craigslist, and only then do I look on ebay for stuff that I can't find either locally or on craigslist. Yes your dealing with larger shops these days, but in some cases the smaller shops can't be bothered with the lower quantity stuff anymore so your kinda stuck with the mega yards. I'm a little lucky in having one of the large MC wrecking yards in town, and even they are a bit limited, and what the charge to go out and find a part they don't have I don't even want to talk about. The other one doesn't even deal for the most part in anything but British and HD stuff.

[WMarshy]

Craigslist... that's all I'm going to say...

[New2Me]

I used to go to Ebay for stuff because you used to be able to find ridiculous deals there. But greed took over as usual and drove the prices up. Now it seems that I can just go to an actual store and find products cheaper. Amazon is another site like that but I do find my school books there a lot cheaper than the college store.

[cywelchjr]

On top of taking your 9% of the sale price. Ebay Also owns/Co-owns Paypal so they get another 3-5% outta you there so its just a rip-off

Not co-owns, they outright own it, it's a wholly owned subsidiary.

[my79is2bad]

On top of taking your 9% of the sale price. Ebay Also owns/Co-owns Paypal so they get another 3-5% outta you there so its just a rip-off

[CatatonicBug]

IMO, it's not that they are driving all the sellers away. The problem is that they have changed their formatting to cater to the corporate sellers. What used to be a giant online garage sale, where the idea of paying full price was simply obsurd, has now changed to just another online storefront for many companies. The little guys just can't afford to pay the fees and deal with the rating system that considers anything less than 5 stars a failing grade, for which, a seller can be banned from the site!

[natemoen]

By "failed", I mean they've failed to generate any interest approaching that of eBay. I shop eBay, and I admit that I usually don't look anyplace else.

I look mainly on ebay, but I really do look around and have used quite a few other auction sites but ebay is the main one of course. There are some really great deals that you can find if your willing to look into the other auction site options.

With ebay screwing so many people nowdays it is slowly killing itself by driving all of its sellers away.