Extra fee for winning net auctions !!!!

Hi, friends,

It is on purpose that I place this here, and not on "Buying online", because it may be quite important for collectors.

Yesterday I got an unpleasant surprise.
One of the most popular ( untill now) net-auctions in Denmark has suddenly introduced at "winner's fee" of 5 DKK ( app 0,70 Euros, 1 dollar) on any auction won !!!!
If it works for them, they could rip the buyers of about half a billion DKK a year   

Is this done in other countries also ?
I am going to make a real fuss about this, so it would be nice to know   

For us collectors this is a lot of percent   
Imagine if Ebay got the same "smart idea" ? 

Crap, don't they charge the seller too?

Yes !
The sellers pay 8 % of the sales price, + 2 DKK for start of an auction + 2 DKK for each time it is repeated.

Oh, they forgot to add fees for registration and every opening of their web page   

I understand you but for not collectors this is only a buisness and that want money. I hope this idea have no success but i am not sure

Do you know other auction places that charge the BUYER ?   

   That is ridiculous! How stupid!   Oh, I hope they reconsider. I don't know of any auction site that charges the BUYER, and there doesn't need to be! How do they expect anyone to buy anything if you have to pay an additional fee!    

skysthelimit wrote:

Oh, they forgot to add fees for registration and every opening of their web page   

Yes, we must also pay for that honour      

widukind wrote:

I understand you but for not collectors this is only a buisness and that want money. I hope this idea have no success but i am not sure

Yes, but they do it without making it clear. It should say so with HUGE letters BEFORE we bid . I am sure they would not make any money at all then !!!  

Animal_Figures_4U wrote:

   That is ridiculous! How stupid!   Oh, I hope they reconsider. I don't know of any auction site that charges the BUYER, and there doesn't need to be! How do they expect anyone to buy anything if you have to pay an additional fee!    

Thankyou, 4U. I am happy it is not only me who have never heard of such a thing before   

SUSANNE wrote:

Animal_Figures_4U wrote:

That is ridiculous! How stupid! Oh, I hope they reconsider. I don't know of any auction site that charges the BUYER, and there doesn't need to be! How do they expect anyone to buy anything if you have to pay an additional fee!

Thankyou, 4U. I am happy it is not only me who have never heard of such a thing before

No, you're not alone. The only thing I've ever heard of with a fee to the buyer are those websites were you have to pay per bid, another stupid idea that I ignore completely. Why would you want to pay per bid, and likely not even win the item anyway? You could pay the value of the item and not even win anything.    I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's such a shame some companies need to take such advantage of their customers. I understand they need to make money, but sometimes (most? ) it's just taking it too far.

I agree, why charge the buyer? All that will do is get people to stop buying from them. I think they're taking the profit thing a tad to far.   

SUSANNE wrote:

Do you know other auction places that charge the BUYER ?   

I think yes, but i am not sure. It is a japanese auctions place and there you pay for everything, so i t nk also for that

SUSANNE wrote:

Hi, friends,

It is on purpose that I place this here, and not on "Buying online", because it may be quite important for collectors.

Yesterday I got an unpleasant surprise.
One of the most popular ( untill now) net-auctions in Denmark has suddenly introduced at "winner's fee" of 5 DKK ( app 0,70 Euros, 1 dollar) on any auction won !!!!
If it works for them, they could rip the buyers of about half a billion DKK a year   

Is this done in other countries also ?
I am going to make a real fuss about this, so it would be nice to know   

For us collectors this is a lot of percent   
Imagine if Ebay got the same "smart idea" ? 

Susanne, I believe that in its own way, eBay has been doing exactly this for some time now with transaction payments which require foreign currency exchange. eBay purchased Paypal in October 2002, and if you pay for an auction/sale item in a currency other than your own, you have to satisfy the 2.5 % exchange rate 'buffer' that is charged to the payer. In addition, the seller also pays the usual eBay fees. If you are lucky enough to be a resident of the EU and not based in the UK, then I believe you can simply avoid this by making payments via bank account wire transfers to EU seller accounts.

As you have probably noticed, eBay.de and others have made a big effort in the past to promote the use of Paypal to German users...  

widukind wrote:

SUSANNE wrote:

Do you know other auction places that charge the BUYER ?   

I think yes, but i am not sure. It is a japanese auctions place and there you pay for everything, so i t nk also for that

Andreas, are you referring to Jauce or another service...?

schleich61 wrote:

widukind wrote:

SUSANNE wrote:

Do you know other auction places that charge the BUYER ?   

I think yes, but i am not sure. It is a japanese auctions place and there you pay for everything, so i t nk also for that

Andreas, are you referring to Jauce or another service...?

A other

Some empires died from excessive ambition.
How does it works? Supposing I want to buy a postcard of 0,25 cents, I have to pay an extra fee more postages to get such a little value thing? Probably more transaction fees or Paypal fees? That's ridiculous and risky to these websites once it can start a big uninterest in them.
Fortunately, in Portugal, there are some auction websites and none charges the buyer. :)

Roger wrote:

Some empires died from excessive ambition.

    

It is ridiculous! I never know such a thing!   

schleich61 wrote:

widukind wrote:

SUSANNE wrote:

Do you know other auction places that charge the BUYER ?   

I think yes, but i am not sure. It is a japanese auctions place and there you pay for everything, so i t nk also for that

Andreas, are you referring to Jauce or another service...?

I think it is not the same fee as in the case of Jauce. Jauce lets You bid Japanese auctions when You have no bank account in Japanese bank and no account on Japanese Yahoo portal. If You have these accounts, You can bid directly the auctions on Japanese Yahoo without paying any additional fee for auctions You win.

jarda wrote:

schleich61 wrote:

widukind wrote:

SUSANNE wrote:

Do you know other auction places that charge the BUYER ?   

I think yes, but i am not sure. It is a japanese auctions place and there you pay for everything, so i t nk also for that

Andreas, are you referring to Jauce or another service...?

I think it is not the same fee as in the case of Jauce. Jauce lets You bid Japanese auctions when You have no bank account in Japanese bank and no account on Japanese Yahoo portal. If You have these accounts, You can bid directly the auctions on Japanese Yahoo without paying any additional fee for auctions You win.

Yes, thanks, I've checked out Jauce before, out of curiosity. One used to be able to use Yahoo sign-in on Japanese Yahoo, but I don't know if that is still the case. Of course, without a Japanese bank account, one would not be able to effect payment.