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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 649902, member: 19065&quot;]<span style="color: Black">&quot;</span><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: Black">we the little buyers have to give our money to the traders before getting what we ordered,&quot;</span></span></p><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: Black"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: Black">...you are overlooking that Sellers also have to pay fees upfront to list items, and it&#039;s not just for one item a Seller may be concerned about their losses as opposed to each Buyer worrying about each or a few items they bought. A Seller may list 100 or many more items and is therefore already out $100+ in fees before they start to see bids adding up to cover losses </span></span><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: Black">or before even one item sells to cover just some of those costs</span></span><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: Black">. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: Black"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: Black">The risk of loss for a Seller is equal to that of a Buyer, both parties are worried that paying before getting either funds for merchandise in return will cause them a loss. That&#039;s part of doing business on eBay. eBay was idealistically founded on trust and by nature I try to maintain that trust with complete strangers but I know that I can be exploited at any moment for being trusting and dealing with unscrupulous buyers and sellers. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: Black"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: Black">I know any business comes with overhead and that as a Seller, I&#039;m responsible for dealing with its cost, not complaining about how to make it free or bent in my favor by passing totally passing the buck. I understand it costs money to make money. That&#039;s part of the game, and it&#039;s part of the risk. As a Seller, I NEVER complain about eBay&#039;s fees because I chose to deal there using their service. I have often felt slighted as a Seller by eBay&#039;s evolving policy but I always look for how the cost of dealing on eBay impacts my success and reward for selling. I review the policy updates and try to adjust my listings to minimize my costs on eBay or I switch to selling items that will make enough money to cover and return with some profit. I never look at eBay as a venue for cost free trading. I never look at eBay as a place of Buyer verses Seller. I&#039;m both and I feel that that alone should be a requirement of using eBay. It shows you how things really are on both sides of the spectrum.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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