posted on November 14, 2000 12:32:23 PM
Lotswin...as long as your handling fee applies equally to all (ie. a flat $5 handling fee for anyone) I doubt if it would be against ebay's rules...but I could be wrong.
But a sliding scale based on form of payment? I have a feeling your auctions would also be nuked! A sliding scale becomes a surcharge for the form of payment.
If a seller finds the fees of a certain form of payment to be onerous, then the seller should not offer that form of payment.
posted on November 14, 2000 12:34:00 PM
OTOH, I don't think it was fair for eBay to cancel ff11's auctions without prior warning and without giving him time to modify the listings. Wonder if we're getting the complete story here???
posted on November 14, 2000 12:46:22 PM
Gang, I never indicated that eBay didn't give me time to change my auctions. That's not the point, nor the original question.
I was wondering if they had the right to inflict such damages against me (shutting down all my auctions) when they have no written rules against what I was doing.
They go to great lengths making sure the jam all these screens of rules and policies past of before we sign up to use their service, but then they shut me down over something not even addressed in any of their pages of policies.
posted on November 14, 2000 12:52:34 PM
eastwest ... I bid on, and 'won' an item early in the year from a US seller. I got the item for a very good price and I sent him a Canada Post money order in US funds right away (I paid 3.50 Canadian to purchase the money order). I missed the part in his TOS that said he charges an extra $3.00 for payments made by money order. The idiot did not contact me when he received the money order. Instead, he sent it back to me and canceled the sale.
So, I was out the 3.50 it cost me to buy it, plus the item I bid on and won.
The problems:
he can cash a Canada Post money order at ANY USPS outlet with zero service fee (some banks charge for this),
he relisted the item and got a LOT more for it, and
I had no idea that this is against the eBay rules. If you can point me to the eBay page where it states this, please do - I'll turn the varmit in
