I haven't sold anything of consequence on eBay for over a year, maybe 2. I don't think I will now at all if I can help it.
Well.. if you add to the description that you do not guarantee that it works, they're shouldn't be a problem, should it? Ill just keep on using chrono24 for my watch trades.
The email I received from ebay a few days ago... Dear Edward, We are writing you today to inform you of recently-announced updates that might impact your selling fees on eBay. At eBay, we monitor our rates, and periodically make adjustments to them. The following changes will take effect on November 6, 2014: Fee update for sellers without an eBay Stores subscription. The maximum standard final value fee—the maximum fee sellers without an eBay Stores subscription will pay per sold item—will be raised from $250 to $750.This change only affects items that sell for more than $2,500. Note: The current $250 maximum final value fee for sellers with an eBay Stores subscription is not changing. Updates to the automatic relist feature, currently available to some sellers: Starting November 6, items relisted via the automatic relist feature available to some sellers will count towards your monthly allotment of free listings*. Once your allotment of free listings is used up—or if the relisted item does not qualify for free listing—the standard insertion fee of 30¢ per listing will apply, as well as any optional feature fees. Starting later this year, the automatic relist feature will no longer be available for 1- and 3-day duration listings. The automatic relist feature currently relists an unsold item once. Starting November 6, if you are opted-in to this feature, your item will automatically be relisted up to two times. Note: You will be credited—either via your free listings allotment or on your invoice—for insertion fees for these relistings where the free automatic relist feature was selected prior to November 6. The manual relisting policy will still apply. When listing an item, be sure that the automatic relist option is either checked or unchecked, depending on your preference. Note that before choosing this option, you may want to check the Selling section of My eBay for any personalized recommendations to improve your listings. Considering the changes above—and the fact that our new global brand campaignwill be inspiring buyers, now and through the high-volume holiday season—it's a good time to review all the benefits that come with an eBay Stores subscription. Starting as low as $15.95 a month, subscriptions offer the following: More free listings*—up to 2,500 a month with an Anchor-level subscription Final value fees as low as 4%, capped at $250 per item Access to powerful promotional tools that can help you sell more Your own dedicated eBay.com home page Exclusive, subscriber-only promotions As always, thank you for selling on eBay. Best, The eBay Selling Team
very disappointing and frustrating news Hopefully a new internet auction site will come along to compete with/replace Ebay
They learned many items sold above USD 5000........and think, hey that's a lot of money left on table !!!!
Yep they updated the UK terms and conditions too! Time to raise my listing price so high no one will buy it and I save $750!!
Buying only for me from now on. Will be using the free for sale sites where possible. Less audience and takes longer, but 180 days? are they on drugs or what? Ebay used to be an exciting and fairish system, but now it's pants.
Not raised the item fee's over 2500 but have added a load of card detail software and personal infer sharing... Effective Jan 29th 2015. Here is who they share your info too... Category Party Name and Jurisdiction (in brackets) Purpose Data Disclosed Credit Reference and Fraud Agencies Please note that in addition to the stated purposes below, PayPal uses your personal information to detect, prevent, and/or remediate fraud or other illegal actions, or to detect, prevent or remediate violations of policies or applicable user agreements. DueDil Limited (UK) To receive business information for risk assessment, and compliance with anti-money laundering requirements, such as establishing the corporate structure and beneficial ownership. Company registration number, name and address of business, name, address, date of birth of directors. Creditsafe USA Inc. (USA) To receive business information for risk assessment, and compliance with anti-money laundering requirements, such as establishing the corporate structure and beneficial ownership. Company registration number, name, and address of business, name, address, date of birth of directors ID Checker.nl BV (Netherlands) (Ireland) To verify identity; automatic data extraction from images of documents, and document validation / forgery detection. Research and testing as to appropriateness of new products and services. Name, address, email address, date of birth, legal form, company registration number, VAT number, proof of identity, address,ownership of a funding instrument or other documents requested by PayPal and the data contained therein for Risk / Compliance/ Credit purposes. Au10tix Limited (Cyprus) To verify identity; automatic data extraction from images of documents,and document validation / forgery detection. Research and testing as to appropriateness of new products and services. Name, address, email address, date of birth, legal form, company registration number, VAT number, documentsproving identity and address,ownership of a funding instrument, or other documents requested by PayPal and the data contained therein for Risk / Compliance/ Credit purposes. Zoot Enterprises, Inc. (USA), Zoot Deutschland GmbH (Germany), Zoot Enterprises Limited (UK) To process technical applications and to provide a data and document gateway for account review and vetting purposes, and to exchange user information and images of documents proving identity, address and ownership of funding instrument with contracted fraud and credit reference agencies. To also aggregate data from internal and external data sources and provide statistical analysis in order to assess the risk of fraud. All account information and documents supplied by customers, to include information used to provide identity and address,ownership of a funding instrument, or other documents requested by PayPal and the data contained therein for Risk / Compliance / Credit purposes. This information may also include IP addresses. Marketing and Public Relations DemandGen AG (Germany) To execute e-mail marketing campaigns Name, email address, phone number, type of account, type, and nature of PayPal Services offered or used and relevant transaction information. StrikeAd UK Ltd. (UK), Ad-x Limited (UK), Criteo Ltd. (UK), Criteo Singapore Pte.Ltd To execute and measure retargeting campaigns in order to segment users for PayPal Here marketing campaigns. Anonymous cookie ID, Advertising ID and device ID to segment user groups for marketing purposes. Nanigans, Inc. (USA), Fiksu, Inc. (USA), Ad- X Limited (UK), Criteo Ltd. (UK), Criteo Singapore Pte.Ltd Help identify behaviour in the mobile app in order to guide decision about targeted marketing; to help efficiently handling and optimising mobile campaigns on social networks and elsewhere in the web Anonymous cookie ID, Advertising ID, and Device ID used by a specific person, events in the mobile app about the use of the mobile app by a specific user (including, without limitation, login, successful completion of the transaction), but no payment and financial information details. Content of advertisements to be delivered to specific users and, as appropriate, segmentation group to which such person belongs to for advertisement purposes. Operational services Zoot Enterprises, Inc. (USA), Zoot Deutschland GmbH (Germany), Zoot Enterprises Limited (UK) To process technical applications and to provide a data and document gateway for account review and vetting purposes, and to exchange user information and images of documents proving identity, address and ownership of funding instrument with contracted fraud and credit reference agencies. All account information and documents supplied by customers such as proofs of identity and address,ownership of a funding instrument, or other documents requested by PayPal and the data contained therein for Risk / Compliance Credit purposes. Group companies Private Sale GmbH (Germany), To provide joint customers content and services (including, but not limited to registration, transactions, failover for carrier billing accounts, and customer support), to assess risk, or to help detect, prevent and/or remediate fraud, or other potentially illegal acts and violations of policies, and to guide decisions about their products, services and communications.
This is just the new world order in the social media/NSA complex. You will do as instructed. By warmest regards to Mark Zuckerberg.
A lot of those are actually required by law to meet their AML/CTF obligations otherwise they could easily be funnelling money to ISIL for all they know. Having spent some time on the systems side of finance its a major concern whenever you're moving significant money between people and countries.