Of course the FREE POSTAGE thing is obvious - if you as a seller have to fit a "one size fits all" postage cost into the BIN cost of your item and "free postage" is going to be seeing people listing auctions that start at anything less than the cost to ship it to somewhere, it means higher listing fees and higher FVFs for Fleabay. Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: Cory glaberson To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:50 PM Subject: [MOPO] Ebay is doing to us what the Airlines did to Travel Agents
My wife worked in travel for the last 25 years and I have witnessed how the airlines slowly squeezed the profit out of booking travel. Ebay's squeeze on us seems very similar. Like the airlines eBay controls the system we sell in Like the airlines eBay is forcing us to accept more and more of the cost of doing business - at first paypal was free. Now we can't take checks and money order, soon ONLY paypal will be allowed The slow push for free postage is the same idea. Most of us will just have to eat the extra costs because ebay "says" that what our customers want. Nonsense. THEY want it. The Airlines said the changes were only to improve customer service and bring people back to flying. Ebay says the reason for the changes is to bring back customer that have left eBay. The Airlines were also pretty strict with travel agencies that broke or avoided the rules. Slowly they weeded them out of the systems and then the airline cut deals with the larger agencies that survived. Expect something similar from Ebay The major difference is that ebay does not actually sell anything in the marketplace they have created. I would not be surprised, however, if they buy some large wholesaler and begin selling things themselves. It seems like EBay is playing from the same playbook used by many big companies faced with a lot of little competitors. ************** It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047) Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
