Why the classified price increase?

[I Love Film]

I hardly think a $2 increase is going to break anyone. This is a very efficient place to buy and sell equipment and they don't take a percentage. Jeez.

(the feedback system needs to be a little more intuitive.)

 

[David Murphy]

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The 10% ebay number is a bit misleading, given the fact that the percentage is actually closer to 8.5% and must be factoring in paypal fees too to reach that number. ...

It's closer to at least 11% with eBay and PayPal combined for items over about $100 on eBay. For items less than that the percentages can be much more. eBay is very expensive. Remember one is essentially forced to take PayPal if one sells on eBay, enhancing eBay's bottom line (eBay owns PayPal if you were not aware of that). eBay even charges final value and and PayPal fees on shipping charges. Their system encourages sellers to take a loss in shipping and forces sellers to assume all risk, even for fraud. I sell some on eBay, but I don't like it at all.

 

[f6andBthere]

eBay may be expensive but in terms of the reliability of the gear being sold it's not much different to this place IMO. The only two cameras I have bought through the RFF classifieds have both been lemons!

Perhaps we just have a better class of lemons here ... and nice to know that the lemon seller only had to pay a few bucks to unload their rubbish on to me! 😛

 

[seakayaker1]

Stephen as the chief bartender perhaps you could ask everyone to buy you a drink or a cup of coffee.

. . . . . or in other words perhaps a number of the 12,000 members would not mind making a small one time donation to cover the upgrade costs and to spread the cost over many without raising the user fees.

Just a thought.

 

[Bill58]

Maybe it was just a nice pay increase for the former Head Bartender and founder. Don't all PayPal payments go to him?

 

[gdi]

some people have a larger sense of entitlement...

Yeah! I say raise the price to $15! Any price is a steal.

 

[Steve M.]

Think of it as an inducement to get out of the Buy/Sell game.

 

[gb hill]

Stephen has already been more than generous with this site keeping it free. Just look at the mentors we have here with Tom A, Bill Pierce, Roger Hicks & others, not to count the other wealth of info here. 7 bucks is a great deal to sell equipment in the 100's & 1000's of $$'s.

 

[jsrockit]

Some people have to complain about any price increase to anything. A postage stamp goes up 1 cent and some people flip out here in the US. I newspaper goes up 25 cents and the same thing occurs. Price increases are a fact of life. I just can't be bothered complaining about them.