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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blueindian65, post: 757007, member: 17310&quot;]First: Ebay is a public company whos ethical responsablity is to generate profit for its share holderes. If they have to increase fees to increase returns for there investors so be it. It cost 8 billion dollars a year to run ebay. Look at their ballance sheet</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I understand that you sold on ebay for 8 years. I&#039;ve never had an e-bay store, but have also used ebay sense 2002 and have bought and sold items on e-bay. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yes ebay owns pay pal. I love pay pal. It is an efficent safe way to send money. Again if you had a brick an mortor store you would pay between 2 and 1/2 percent to 5 percent on every transaction to run a credit card. So what is the big deal? Intuit (the makers of quick books) make a large percentage of there profits threw credit card processing this is not unique to ebay. Call Autherize.net and try and get a credit account that excepts e-checks and get back to me. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Second</p><p>80 % of small busniess go bankcrupt. Busniess is hard. If your service has a place in the market it will last. If not it won&#039;t. Thats life!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Think about it. You don&#039;t have to charge sales tax unless its an instate sale</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>you get access to millions of potential customers. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you drive busniess to your store outside of e-bay they will cut your fees. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>No employes to pay or employment taxes </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>How are you getting worked? Ebay saves you money</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sory you got screwed on an item. Mark it up as a loss and write it off your taxes, or here is a noble idea. Call an AG and report the user as a theif it can happen, but no company in the history of the world is going to stop customers form comming to there website. Why should e-bay be differnt? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you want to move more murchandise why not make your own website and A) link it to e-bay and also try paying for clicks on google. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Or data mine your customers on ebay and generate repeat busniess. <a href="http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/spam/business.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/spam/business.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/spam/business.htm</a>&nbsp; It is not illegal to send busniess e-mails you just have to follow the law it works.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I personly send out 2K + e-mails a month to list I get to keep my company in peoples mind, and guess what it works. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Constant Contact is also a great marketing tool.There are lots of ways to make money, but compaling that your profit margins are two small when you have funcutaly zero overhead is not one of them. Also If someone stole something form you I know for a fact you can put. This person stole my item cancle their bid. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And you can write off e-bay fees as a busniess expeense. Hell get an Amex Busniess card and link it to your pay pal account so that you can get the bonus points. Lots of busniess people do this and pay for vacations ect. I don&#039;t know what your FICA score is, but surly you can get a credit card with a 2K credit limit and a decent reward program. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Finaly buy good software for your busniess that tracks your accounting and invetory cost ect so you can get a true cost of busniess, and see what your margins are. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>One last thing. Why not use bing to buy your murchandise. You can get a 2500 dollar a year discount on coins bullion ect. that will def not hurt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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