Poll: Adding handling fees to domain sales here

[Dr.goldname]

I want to know if people here are interested in being able to add a handling fee to their sales listings here on NamePros. It is currently not against Paypal TOS to add a reasonable handling fee to you sales that are paid for through Paypal. It is against their TOS to pass on your payment fees to your customers which has been posted and enforced by all of our attentive moderators.

This from the paypal website

You agree that you will not impose a surcharge or any other fee for accepting PayPal as a payment method. You may charge a handling fee in connection with the sale of goods or services, as long as the handling fee does not operate as a surcharge and is not higher than the handling fee you charge for non-PayPal transactions.

Since initiating transactions, email buyers/sellers, and handling pushes on sales all takes time and energy I think it should be allowed to add a reasonable handling fee to my sales thread. I am talking 3-4%. Especially since paypal allows it and it breaks no rule.

Please post yes or no on the poll and respond if you agree or disagree.

 

[accent]

The reason people have 1 cent prices and $9 handling fees on eBay is to avoid paying eBay's comission which is not charged on shipping and handling.

Some buyers get really ticked off by handling fees above the actual cost of postage - the cost of boxes, materials, gas to Post Office, time - none of that registers to them, they believe the seller is scamming them and they should be entitled to the price w/o handling. Actually, it is just part of the mix and purchases should be considered by total cost, but they are not, added fees are hated.

Customers are sometimes not rational.

 

[GreenGambler]

The reason people have 1 cent prices and $9 handling fees on eBay is to avoid paying eBay's comission which is not charged on shipping and handling.

Some buyers get really ticked off by handling fees above the actual cost of postage - the cost of boxes, materials, gas to Post Office, time - none of that registers to them, they believe the seller is scamming them and they should be entitled to the price w/o handling. Actually, it is just part of the mix and purchases should be considered by total cost, but they are not, added fees are hated.

Customers are sometimes not rational.

I won't bid on something if the shipping / handling costs are a lie. Unless I really, really want it. I know that they are scamming ebay and I won't support that. Even though I do feel, quite often, that "feebays" fees are way too high, I still don't support cheating the system and try to stay away from sellers who do.

 

[cache]

I think in some situations, if you don't use credit card, use personal account, you could possibly avoid the paypal fee, and pass that saving to buyer/seller. This could save some money on low end domains.

 

[Red Rock]

I just bought an item off ebay for .01 wanna know what the shipping & handling was? 9.99 (still worked out to be the cheapest I could get the item for). Ebay silliness at it's best, not really something that needs to be worked into the domaining commonplace.

This past week was a little unusual on Ebay.
They had a promotion for all sellers.
If you start your lsting at just 99 cents or lower,
your listing fee would only be 1 cent.
So, basically every item on there had to readjust a little bit
to cover Final Value Fees, and PayPal Fees, and that all got tacked onto Shipping/Handling.
Understandable, you want to make $ as a seller
and jump on that 1 cent list fee, and hope your item
doesn't sell for 99 cents, but just in case...
Thats why this whole past week, actually up until Mar.31st,
(that was the last day offered of 1 cent listings).
Shipping has been outrageous.
Those who listed for 7 day auctions on the last day of that promotion,
their auctions wont end until Apr. 7th.
So, we should only see these crazy Shipping/Handling Fees til then!

Take care,
Red Rock!

 

[notlikeyou]

We are a little off topic here, the ebay example (yes I already knew why the do it) is just used to further illustrate that type of "working the system" is typically viewed as being slimey by the general public. No need to pull that into the domaining realm as well.

 

[Jeff]

Voted ... with the majority! :imho:

-Jeff