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Nov 13, 2006 13:13:14 GMT
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I sold my Ventora on eBay and as well as the £6 insertion fee, I got a £12.14 final value fee on the sale. Eh? I thought eBay charged a flat £18 for a sale of a car? I'm not complaining because that saved me five quid odd there, but I notice there have been yet more changes in the way you list stuff (sees to be more complicated every time I use it now!) and I wondered if anyone knew, especially as I have a Saab listed for someone else with a £6500 reserve and I only charged him for listing it based on the £6 insertion and the £18 sale fee...
Example of new stupid eBay things, you don't have an option for collection only. Only a postage cost of zero.
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Last Edit: Nov 13, 2006 13:14:06 GMT by akku
1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Nov 13, 2006 13:17:04 GMT
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.... and has anyone noticed how the 'featured plus' option on motors has doubled in price from £9.99 to £19.99?
SKUMBAGS.
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Nov 13, 2006 13:20:31 GMT
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I thought Featured was £9.99 and Featured Plus was £19.99 and the section feature was £49.99? Always been like that IIRC.
I never thought I'd say this but ebay is begining to get on my wick a little now.
Last four or five lots of stuff I've listed the listing has worked a different way each time. Takes ages to list stuff now.
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Last Edit: Nov 13, 2006 13:20:48 GMT by akku
1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Nov 13, 2006 13:24:55 GMT
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Nov 13, 2006 13:37:14 GMT
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I wonder if it’ll all go t*ts up soon? As well as the hassle of the way eBay run it and change things, there’s the ever-growing number of idiotic buyers and sellers on there.
My pet hate this week, as already discussed with Pog, is people profiteering on postage. In my case when I asked them to justify it I got an illiterate and unhelpful answer.
If anyone out there has a bit of time on their hands can they confirm that sellers shouldn’t charge extra for Paypal, and if so find me a link to the regulation please?
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Nov 13, 2006 13:51:10 GMT
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If anyone out there has a bit of time on their hands can they confirm that sellers shouldn’t charge extra for Paypal, and if so find me a link to the regulation please? I can't find the link, but this is indeed the case, as I rememeber when they brought in that rule. However, a way round it is to offer a discount to those paying by cheque / cash
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Nov 13, 2006 13:55:08 GMT
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You think UK ebay is bad for nob head buyers, well ebay France is 100 times worse. Practically every car sale under 1000 euros is attacked by zero-reated n00b bidders who bosh the price right up and then do not buy. The number of things i've wanted to bidf on, only to have the sale 'infiltrated' by some tw@t who registered yesterday, is ridiculous. I would say 60% of car sales are scuppered in this way. Total rubbish.
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1972 Fiat 130 1985 Talbot Alpine 1974 Lancia Beta Saloon 1975 + 1986 Mazda 929 Koop + Wagon 1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica 1977 Toyota Carina TA14 BEST CAR EVER!!!!!!!! 1979 Datsun B310 Sunny 4-dr 1984 Audi 200 Quattro Turbo 1983 Honda Accord 1.6 DX GONE1989 Alfa 75 2.0 TS Mr T says: TREAT YO MOTHER RIGHT!
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Nov 13, 2006 13:57:51 GMT
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^And of course ebay pockets the listing fee. That's what really fuggs me off. You lobb out £10+ for a decent listing only for some wazzock to spazz it up. OK, you get your FVF back, but eBay see it as a sale and thus if you relist, you pay again. It wouldn't be too cynical to think that ebay invent half these dead-beats themselves, just to line the pockets would it?
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Nov 13, 2006 14:04:41 GMT
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I've noticed selling car bits has been creeping up in price on eBay. My last bill was waaaay higher than I was expecting, only to be eaten into again by the Paypal fees. I've been using forum for sale/wanted sections a lot more, then I know it goes to someone who genuinely wants it and isn't going to get sniped away from them for the sake of 25p. I'm generally finding eBay to be better for the buyer than the seller who gets stung. However it is a convenient place to palm off tat quickly.
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Nov 13, 2006 17:59:02 GMT
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I think ebay upped the price on the featured listing for cars as there were too many people doing it and it no longer makes a car stand out, so now a lot of people have stopped doing it, there are less featured listings but ebay still get the same money. What narks me at the minute is all the classified listings on there and having to trawl through pages of shoite to find something half decent
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1900sr
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Nov 13, 2006 18:19:10 GMT
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I have to agree with that, combined with anyone doing a classified for a Vauxhall automatically having it listed as Vauxhall/Opel. Now if I search for Opel I get a shed load of classifieds for modern GM tat, instead of a handful of ads mostly featuring RWD quality.
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Nov 13, 2006 19:30:24 GMT
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I have to agree with that, combined with anyone doing a classified for a Vauxhall automatically having it listed as Vauxhall/Opel. Now if I search for Opel I get a shed load of classifieds for modern GM tat, instead of a handful of ads mostly featuring RWD quality. Yeh true, but you can specify to ignore certain words, such as Vauxhall. Just go to advanced search facility.
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Nov 13, 2006 19:46:30 GMT
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I have to agree with that, combined with anyone doing a classified for a Vauxhall automatically having it listed as Vauxhall/Opel. Now if I search for Opel I get a shed load of classifieds for modern GM tat, instead of a handful of ads mostly featuring RWD quality. Fully agree with that! Is there no way at all to filter out these classified ads? They are a real pain in the hole. If I wanted classified ads i'd buy the fuggin trader.
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1972 Fiat 130 1985 Talbot Alpine 1974 Lancia Beta Saloon 1975 + 1986 Mazda 929 Koop + Wagon 1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica 1977 Toyota Carina TA14 BEST CAR EVER!!!!!!!! 1979 Datsun B310 Sunny 4-dr 1984 Audi 200 Quattro Turbo 1983 Honda Accord 1.6 DX GONE1989 Alfa 75 2.0 TS Mr T says: TREAT YO MOTHER RIGHT!
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Nov 13, 2006 20:42:03 GMT
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I thought you could view by auctions only, buy-it-now only, all listings and classifieds... A tab at the top of the page. Or has that changed as well now? Meh.
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Nov 13, 2006 20:50:17 GMT
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i tend to search motors by location and with the classified ads page 5 or 6 only gets me 15 miles distance where as before i was upto at 75 miles before the classifieds added
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room.
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Nov 13, 2006 22:13:33 GMT
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I thought you could view by auctions only, buy-it-now only, all listings and classifieds... A tab at the top of the page. Or has that changed as well now? Meh. yes you can but I like to look at buy it nows and auctions and as far as I know you cant specify the two together and if you do it seperate you end up repeating quite a few that have both If the classified ads contained random tat it wouldnt be so bad, but its like a listing for Yes car credit
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Nov 13, 2006 22:16:04 GMT
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I wonder if it’ll all go t*ts up soon? As well as the hassle of the way eBay run it and change things, there’s the ever-growing number of idiotic buyers and sellers on there. My pet hate this week, as already discussed with Pog, is people profiteering on postage. In my case when I asked them to justify it I got an illiterate and unhelpful answer. If anyone out there has a bit of time on their hands can they confirm that sellers shouldn’t charge extra for Paypal, and if so find me a link to the regulation please? pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/listing-surcharges.htmljust click on show next to examples
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Nov 13, 2006 22:26:29 GMT
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Thanks PhoenixC! Seller has been duly dobbed.
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I bid on a car recently that had been relisted for the second time (a ford anglia) on ebay. I asked the seller why he'd relisted and what happened to the first auction as it hadn't met reserve I wanted to find out how much more he was looking for. He said he was basically happy enough with the price and would have sold it to the highest bidder at the end but when he rang there was lots of giggling in the background followed by a couple of boys asking "is that a 16 valve or 24 valve?"!!
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