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Games on ebay.co.uk

  • 20-08-2009 3:55pm
    #1
    MayoForSam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭


    I'm trying to sell some old video games on ebay.co.uk and apparently I cannot set a postage cost, it has to be free P&P. Is this a new rule that's been introduced for certain categories? Any workaround?


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  • #2
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    As far as I know, this has been there for a while now, and there's no way around it. Don't know what the reason is.


  • #3
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,073 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    jor el wrote: »
    As far as I know, this has been there for a while now, and there's no way around it. Don't know what the reason is.

    It's bloody irritating. Sellers from the UK don't have to provide free p&p as far as I'm aware.


  • #4
    Nody
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,474 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    Kintarō Hattori wrote: »
    It's bloody irritating. Sellers from the UK don't have to provide free p&p as far as I'm aware.
    They do; it affects most categories and all but basically car parts have zero P&P or a low hard cap.

    The reason where morons customers who could not grasp the idea of buying a 1 GBP, 10 GBP freight item is better for them then buying a 10GBP, 1 GBP freight item. Of course after much whining (and Ebay realizing that they where losing money as the fee was only based of the sell price and not the P&P) they required no P&P for most and capped very low on the rest.


  • #5
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    MayoForSam wrote: »
    Any workaround?
    Not sure what you mean by workaround, but you can set an opening bid of the postage amount, that way you cannot lose money if it goes for very little. You can set reserve prices too, but they really just piss people off, opening bids are more transparent and essentially the same thing, and I would guess more people prefer the upfront approach.


  • #6
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,073 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Nody wrote: »
    They do; it affects most categories and all but basically car parts have zero P&P or a low hard cap.

    The reason where morons customers who could not grasp the idea of buying a 1 GBP, 10 GBP freight item is better for them then buying a 10GBP, 1 GBP freight item. Of course after much whining (and Ebay realizing that they where losing money as the fee was only based of the sell price and not the P&P) they required no P&P for most and capped very low on the rest.

    I understand what you're saying and it makes sense but are you positive sellers in the UK have to offer free P&P? All the examples I've listed below are charging postage as are every seller I've checked.

    £4.99 for a Blu-Ray

    £3.50 for a DVD

    £2.75 for a DVD


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  • #7
    mid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭mid


    Kintarō Hattori wrote: »
    I understand what you're saying and it makes sense but are you positive sellers in the UK have to offer free P&P? All the examples I've listed below are charging postage as are every seller I've checked.

    £4.99 for a Blu-Ray

    £3.50 for a DVD

    £2.75 for a DVD

    I think the examples you've given have free postage to the UK (which is required now by ebay), but they charge for international postage


  • #8
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    mid wrote: »
    I think the examples you've given have free postage to the UK (which is required now by ebay), but they charge for international postage

    It does, indeed. If we try to sell games or DVDs on ebay.co.uk, then eBay will make us list free P&P to UK, but allow to charge for international. It doesn't take into account the the seller is not UK based, when placing the listing. The way around this is to not use ebay.co.uk for selling games and DVDs.


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