Ebay
Store Fee Raised Weeks After Telemarketing Offer of $9.95 Monthly
- 01-13-2005
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Hello
I am an eBay seller - have been for some months now. Recently eBay called my home with an offer - Free Store for 30 days and then $9.95 per month after that. This was the beginning of December.
On January 12th they emailed all the sellers and informed us that:
Our Store monthly fee would be going from 9.95 per month to $15.95 per month. Auction final value fees would be going from 5.25% to 8%. Gallery fees and other listing fees would also be increasing.
My beef with them is the store fees. If they telemarketed me with a certain cost, should they not be made to honor that cost - and is that not a telemarketing scam?
Their response when I called was that there was no way they were going to honor the 9.95 fee. When I told them I would have to close my store they said "You have to do what you feel is right."
They sold me a product and then hiked the rates - in my eyes thats a telemarketing scam and they need to be fined for that. I thought about listing under the BBB, but they are members so it would not do any good. That is why I am here. Hope you guys can help!
Company: Ebay
Country: USA
State: California
City: San Jose
Address: 2145 Hamilton Ave
Phone: 4083767400