(OT) I'm confused - regarding Ebay

[bob haller]

e bay and pay pal fees combined, the seller pays are about 20% of the purchase price.

e bay doesnt fee shipping charges, thats why some sellers hipping is so expensive

[trader_4]

Actually Ebay does include shipping charges in the final value price of the item when calculating their cut. I think years ago they might not have done that, but they sure do now. So, if you have something that's heavy, you get screwed again. I just shipped two CV front axles out, that was $48. Had nothing to do with Ebay, but it's an example of where if they were sold on Ebay, I'd be paying an additional $4.80 fee.

[Ashton Crusher]

I watch items to keep track of ones I *might* later want to bid on. I also watch items that are the same or similar to items I may plan to sell to keep track of the price they sell for, or if they sell at all. Watching items is just an easy way to mark things so you can find them again.

[clare]

Ebay OWNS Paypal

[micky]

One of the things I learned with Amazon or maybe Ebay is that if I'm sending a gift, even to my brother where gift-wrapping is not needed, I have to mark it as a gift, and then refuse the actual giftwrapping. There is no charge for this at whatever site I'm thinking of.

When I didn't mark it as a gift, they gave no indication who sent it!!!! And my brother couldn't figure it out!

[micky]

I"ve wondered about this. Do they put it all in a big box, or a container, or something, so it ships as one package? That seems to be contradicted by the package labeling, but maybe there's some special rule?

[Dean Hoffman]

Some cut.

Ebay and Paypal are going their separate ways. CNET article here:

[Nils Holland]

Using PayPal to pay for eBay purchases generally seems to be very "buyer friendly": When a buyer logs a complaint about an item purchased via BIN or as part of an auction, the money he has paid gets frozen in the seller's PayPal account, i.e. the seller can't withdraw the money from there or send it on to other PayPal accounts, until the issue is resolved.

In general, it seems that eBay / PayPal will set a certain timeframe within which the buyer and seller are supposed to communicate with each other in order to resolve the issue. During that time, the seller can send the whole price or a part of the price that has been paid back to the buyer. If the buyer then closes the case, the (remaining) amount will be un-frozen in the sellers PayPal account.

If the two parties don't reach an agreement within the timeframe set by eBay / PayPal, I guess that eBay / PayPal would review the situration and decide what to do, which might mean "forcibly" taking the money that has been paid and transferring it back to the buyer. However, this has never happend to me (I'm mostly active as a seller), so I'm not sure about how exactly this works and what happens.

Be it as it may, I'd say that using PayPal to pay for your eBay purchases is generally a sane choice from the point of view of a buyer.

Greetings, Nils

[BuenoOffenhauser]

I do that sometimes if I'm not sure I want to buy it. It's easier to find the item in my watch list than go searching again.