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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.
Just as in America, eBay is getting a huge discount on postage in Canada, but only passing on the standard online rate to its sellers, pocketing the rest as pure profit. But now that there are other options for sellers to buy their postage from, eBay is now realizing they had need to offer better rates, or sellers will just not use them, and thus they make nothing.
Yet ebay still lies and says they have no control over postage rates, they may not but do have control on their discounts. Better figure something out here soon, 3 rate increases in the next year, July, October and January 2024. AS the rates gets higher, 2024 will probably be the end of my business, I’ll make more off disability. Why work so hard for so little.