posted on October 27, 2001 12:35:21 PM new
I have an Ebay store, and until a few days ago, I used to get a 'store' email from ebay saying that soandso had bought an item. I would then invoice soandso. Ebay had already skimmed its cut, and <• µžó€}3 ¼“83Hy.
A few days ago, I started to get 'request for total' from buyers. I quickly realized that they wanted to buy an item from my store, but that ebay had forced them to send me the 'request' first. I am supposed to copy an url from the 'request' email into my browser, and go to the ebay site to reply to the buyer with an ebay-created invoice.
The buyer is then supposed to get back on ebay and 'confirm' that he has had his request answered and will now buy the item.
Faced with this, all I have been doing is immediately sending the buyer an invoice, and selling the item directly, outside of ebay. I will refund to the buyer the ebay final fee that I saved.
Is this really the way they have the stores set up? It doesn't seem possible ebay could be that stupid; they usually have a nose for money the way a pig has for truffles; but I have had half a dozen sales recently, all of them via the 'request'.
posted on October 27, 2001 01:05:04 PM new
Yup, this is the new Ebay store.
Your item is not "purchased" until the buyer goes through checkout. You get the e-mail, but the item is not purchased, and not reduced from your inventory until checkout is completed.
I will be closing my store soon. I think it is absolutely ridiculous.
They are shooting themselves in the foot. They are just BEGGING for fee avoidance.
