tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056474203732155833.post6058031090963911784..comments2020-07-13T21:23:18.093-07:00Comments on Red Ink Diary: That Was The Week That Was!Henriettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980100650453154588noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056474203732155833.post-27082177003191622008-10-12T22:14:00.000-07:002008-10-12T22:14:00.000-07:00Henrietta, You do so much good with your blog. I ...Henrietta, You do so much good with your blog. I look for it every day, and I'm never disappointed by your insight.<BR/><BR/>Keep it up, and thank you!JustOneVoicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09585298505083627326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056474203732155833.post-77487909624895761632008-10-12T20:58:00.000-07:002008-10-12T20:58:00.000-07:00You have to love the irony factor in the Tamebay a...You have to love the irony factor in the Tamebay article about forced free postage:<BR/><BR/>Quote: "<I>eBay are focusing on the three top reasons why buyers stop buying on eBay <BR/><BR/>1. Losing money on eBay.<BR/>2. Getting a negative feedback <BR/>3. High postage and packaging charges</I>"<BR/><BR/>I wonder what the top three reasons for sellers stopping selling on Ebay will be, when they decide to stop the haemorrhage of paying customers?<BR/><BR/>Ebay appears to be single handedly trying to create an ecommerce culture of free shipping by saying it is an expectation (I have not spoken to anybody yet, that is not an Ebay employee, that sees free shipping as an expectation - nor have I found anyone yet who believe that free shipping is free).<BR/><BR/>As postal rates rise (and until this point, fuel costs), Ebay is the only company that can afford to push the free shipping barrow. They not only don't own the stock and thus don't pay the shipping costs, they also earn a bonus commission for the part of the transaction they are not involved in, when shipping charges are also added into the transaction total. <BR/><BR/>Nicely, though, in an email from Ebay late last week, I was generously offered a double power seller discount if I start offering free shipping on all of my goods. Being in Australia I am entitled to precisely 0% discount, which means that if I offer free shipping on my items I will earn an additional 0% discount.<BR/><BR/>As I said, Ebay is the one ecommerce company that actually can afford to offer free shipping (although I suspect they are losing much more money through this campaign than they realise).<BR/><BR/>KevinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com