So I've noticed lately that a lot of sellers are offering free shipping on everything, with more and more jumping on the free shipping bandwagon everyday. Because of this, it's going to force other sellers to have to offer free shipping as well in order to match their competition...even if they don't want to do shipping for free. I mean, with free shipping...not only to you have to pay the cost of shipping out of your own pocket, Ebay gets to take more from you in fees since the item sells for more (and if it doesn't...you still loose money by paying for shipping yourself). What are people's thoughts here on the fact that so many sellers are switching over to free shipping? Do you think it can only have negative affects on sellers, or do you see anything positive coming out of it (there must be something positive, or else why are so many sellers doing it)?
I have a feeling that Ebay will get to the point where they force all of their sellers to offer free shipping.