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Just received an email from eBay announcing there new “lower” fee structure. Its pure crap.
They RAISED the final value fee by 3.5%!! 5.25% was already rediculous and now they want 8.75%? WTF? Yeah they lowered there insertion fees by 5 cents. Wooopy doo dah. They are still taking the money out of your pocket when it sells.
Another thing, as I read this I was reminded that they charge insertion fees for there stores. What crap is that? They also charge monthly fees. I am sorry.. wait no I am not, if I am paying a monthly fee to have a store I want to not have to pay everytime I put a product in a store I am already paying for. wow.
They hid the fee increases by throwing in gallery for free. Definately done with eBay. I will probably still buy on there but I am definately NOT selling on there anymore.
Con artists of the century? There new fee structure.
- SJ
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Over the last week, I figured I would try to clean some clutter out and put some stuff up for auction on eBay. What I have found is that they are charging WAY too much now. Lets look at one of my auctions:
2 items with a “buy it now” auction and “best offer” listed at $29.99. They both sold for a total of $44 ($22 each). Here is the fee breakdown:
Insertion Fee: $2.40
Final Value Fee: $2.31
Total fee: $4.71
That is MORE than 10% of what I received for my items. To put the sting even further, there sister company Paypal took an additional $1.88. Total fees for selling on eBay amounts to $6.59 on a sale that was $44. My final income was $37.41, they took 15%. It looks like the only way to make money on eBay is to inflate somewhere and now I know why some of these shipping charges are outrageous. eBay does not charge fees on shipping, PayPal does as it is charged on all incoming money. So if you are going to sell something of any value, list it for a dollar and put your purchase price in shipping.
My insertion fee was so high on that item because it was a buy it now. Guess what eBay, it does not cost you more to list that item so why are you charging more?
Another quickie example which is not as bad. A cell phone up for auction with a buy it now.
Insertion Fee: $1.10
Final Value Fee: $3.25
PayPal Fee: $2.98
Total Fees: $7.33
Phone sold for $84.75 - $7.33 = $77.42 in total income. That is still close to 9% (8.64%) in total fees. I am looking for a new auction site that does not try to rape you on fees. Maybe Amazon is the answer? Maybe uBid?
Pass on eBay. There fees are out of hand.
- SJ
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That will teach the middle east! Ok this is in the “I have gone too far category” but really sit back and think about it.
Barack Hussein Obama
I mean seriously. 3 strikes in one freaken name right there.
Barack sounds like Iraq
Hussein - Saddam anyone?
Obama - waaaay too close to Osama in my books.
I mean come on guy. I’d at least of paid for a legal name change before running for office.
If he gets elected, one of the first titles “Barack destroys Iraq” or “Obama kills Osama” wee. If he gets elected, there should be a condition that he HAS to have a name change when he takes the office. I mean can you imagine being sworn in as Obama?
I have not really gotten into the politics yet but need to soon as the primaries are coming up.. wait can independants vote in primaries? I dont think so. I will have to Google it.
You know who I would vote for no matter there politics… a Black Woman. Yeah screw all you racists out there and woman haters. Put a Black Woman in office and castrate all of you mother F’ers. That will teach you. Which brings to mind.. maybe we should have a racist tax instead of hate crimes… ooohhh I think we need more tax cuts for the “real” people.
I am drooling already. You know what. Oprah Winfrey for president. What the hell, why not.
- SJ
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...On MLK Jr’s holibirthday celebrating what he did for those with colorful
skin.. one has to wonder what all the christian “blacks” have to say about there very humble bible condoning slavery? Was the “white” man wrong in following the very bible so many hold near and dear today? I referenced the following:
Exodus 21:7
“If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.”
Exodus 21:2
“If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.”
Ex 21:7-37 is a bunch of “laws” for Maidservants. These “laws” are abided by many blindly without actually questioning there reading materials and many who dont even read. The white man has surely “destroyed” the black man, but they were taught to do so by the ultimate law of the land. God’s Law.
So the next time you are bitching that “I” owe you something because my skin pigment is white, I am merely gonna ask if you are a christian and if so, STFU. Actually I will say that either way cause I know damn well I do not have any slaves and I sure as hell did not enslave YOU.
Was MLK Jr a Christian? Did he denounce his faith like he denounced his “oppressors”? Makes you really wonder about religion does it not?
If you want to taste a bit of a wake up call, read Leviticus. Seriously.
Slavery is bad, even when condoned by the “Word of God” no matter how you shape it. Period.
- SJ
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This is an infamous catch up post with some foreshadowing of my life to be.
A few weeks ago, my friend Ryan invited me to a party that had a bunch of high school friends attending at one of there houses. While it was last minute (only about 2 hours notice) I ended up going. Took my PS2/Party Box (has guitar hero 1/2/3 80’s and Karaoke stuff) to help with some of the fun. I am not a big wine party person and just a big kid sometimes.
Sidebar: Actually when you really think about yourself, you are just a kid on the inside also afraid to let him out for fears of what others would think. Yes you. They key to staying young is letting the kid out and have some unadulterated fun. Parents get to feel this when they have kids and can play in the sand or with the kids toys. Do not deny it.
So I went to this party and had a blast. Played Karaoke and Guitar Hero 3. Some of my friends were too shy to sing karaoke (let the kid out man, nobody cares if you sound like a dead horse) but for the most part everyone had a blast with it. Yeah there was some idle chitchat about politics, abortion, elections, religion etc. While as interesting as they were (the conversations) I believe everyone had the most fun just being there with everyone. The conversations did not matter nor did the Party Box.
Since the party, my friend Ryan has lit his blog on fire with a bunch of heated posts and comments. It kind of inspired me to get back on the saddle and start writing "good" articles for my blog instead of these hollow praises for stuff. No I was not paid for them. Back up off me. Back to the distaste of the way people handle certain things like Illegal Immigration, religion, etc and my boring boring life. Yep if you want to read the juicy stuff you have to read the boring stuff.
So there you have it, my past few weeks.
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