Comments on: Will eBay.ph start charging fees?

By: James

James — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:06:13 +0000

hi..im an ebay seller. I guess having an insertion fee on ebay.ph is too much, especially if it’s in the dollar denomination.

You see, if I sell a 50 peso keychain, I have to pay an insertion fee of 18 pesos if we follow the list of insertion fees on ebay.com(according to ebay.com, a starting price of $1-$9.99 would pay $0.40(P18), I use P45=$1). If I sell five 50-peso keychains, i would be charge with 90 pesos, and if they do sell, ebay still will get a final value fee. There would be nothing left with the seller. To cover up these fees, as a seller, I will try to raise the selling price. But that would not be very attractive to buyers.

My take on this is that eBay, if they will ever ask for insertion fees, it should be in philippine pesos, not in dollars($5 for them is just minutes of work,unlike here in the philippines, it would be a 5 hour work of a minimum wager).

Or the seller can have options, if he is only a 1 time seller, he can be charge with insertion fees. But if he is a regular seller(like me), we can be charge by a monthly basis, maybe P100-P1000?I don’t know, as long as we can list items as many as we can.

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By: entrepreneur ideas

entrepreneur ideas — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:28:01 +0000

I hope it will take a long time before they charge fees.

By: dementia

dementia — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:31:54 +0000

If the additional fee is in centavos, that would be alright. But dollars is a bit hard to swallow since many buyers on ebay.ph are looking for bargains.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:08:18 +0000

Will Pinoys still like eBay PH if it becomes a real auction place, and not a listing service where you can still bargain?

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By: paul

paul — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:28:20 +0000

I have some info…
Paypal is outsourcing their customer service here in the Philippines… they all handle the whole North American Community.

The company’s name is “Sutherland”, It is in export plaza bank, ayala, makati.

By: paul

paul — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:24:14 +0000

Nice blog abe, keep up the good work! God bless!!

By: Mindanao Bob

Mindanao Bob — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:23:05 +0000

How does eBay currently make money in the Philippine market? They get people started selling for free on eBay.ph, with that, people start learning a little about e-commerce. As their knowledge grows, they realize that the Philippines is a tiny market, and if they want to make big bucks, they need to sell on eBay.com. When they move to eBay.com, eBay starts earning money from these sellers.

I agree that eBay will begin charging for the use of eBay.ph, but I think they will wait for it to mature further before charging.