Thursday, August 12, 2004
The cost of doing business
Here's what I hate about eBay: all the damned amateurs. I've got one now whining about how PayPal is charging 75 cents on a $5.00 purchase and that's what I'll have to pay. I'm sorry, but even at the highest rate (2.9% + 30 cents) it only comes to 44 cents. This woman is trying to bilk me out of 31 cents! How cheap can you possibly get? Then she's charging me more than four dollars for shipping, because the item is only 99 cents and hey, she has to make up her money on the book she spent a dime on at the thrift shop. I sell on eBay too from time to time, and I use PayPal to accept payments. It's the cost of doing business on eBay. And it's a lot less than the cost of doing business in a storefront somewhere.
Listen, amateurs: grow up. Learn a little bit about customer service. Quit complaining about how much eBay charges and how much PayPal charges. If you don't want to accept a dollar for a book... ask for more than that from the beginning! But don't take it out on the only bidder for being the only bidder.
Here's what I hate about eBay: all the damned amateurs. I've got one now whining about how PayPal is charging 75 cents on a $5.00 purchase and that's what I'll have to pay. I'm sorry, but even at the highest rate (2.9% + 30 cents) it only comes to 44 cents. This woman is trying to bilk me out of 31 cents! How cheap can you possibly get? Then she's charging me more than four dollars for shipping, because the item is only 99 cents and hey, she has to make up her money on the book she spent a dime on at the thrift shop. I sell on eBay too from time to time, and I use PayPal to accept payments. It's the cost of doing business on eBay. And it's a lot less than the cost of doing business in a storefront somewhere.
Listen, amateurs: grow up. Learn a little bit about customer service. Quit complaining about how much eBay charges and how much PayPal charges. If you don't want to accept a dollar for a book... ask for more than that from the beginning! But don't take it out on the only bidder for being the only bidder.
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