posted on June 14, 2005 08:22:32 PM new
eBay Eliminates Fees for Printing Shipping Labels
By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
June 13, 2005
eBay is eliminating the 20-cent fee it had charged sellers for using its shipping label feature. eBay introduced the feature last year, giving sellers the ability to print shipping labels with pre-filled address information that could billed directly to their PayPal accounts.
The announcement was posted by Bill Cobb on the eBay Announcement Board on Friday. Cobb, President of eBay North America, said the fee elimination had been set to be announced at eBay Live, but because it will be available on Friday, he wanted to share the news early. ("Keeping secrets is hard," he posted.) eBay Live is the company's annual user convention, and the fourth event is set to take place June 23 - 25 in San Jose.
Cobb said one of his priorities is to make shipping less of a hassle for users, and, "put simply, we want to do for shipping what we did for online payments when we acquired PayPal and integrated it into the transaction flow on eBay."
posted on June 15, 2005 08:38:57 AM new
Good to know - I use these all the time. I didn't mind too much as I prefer it over standing in line at the post office.
posted on June 16, 2005 11:40:20 AM new
I have alway's used their system to print shipping and this will save me ALOT of money per year. It would be nice if somehow Vendio could link their "Print Shipping" to the Paypal shipping system. I investigated getting one of those postage label printers and I just decided to stick with the Paypal shipping label service. By the time you pay your monthly fee, buy a heavy duty printer and buy the expensive labels the Paypal system was much cheaper. Well it's even cheaper now. I wounder if the USPS is giving Paypal a discount on postage as they do so much business with them and they are just passing on the saving's??? In any case, it's great new's.
