e bay fees

[sparky011]

hi guys

can anyone help me out on this one


i am away to create a shop on ebay selling around 300 items roughly

can anyone tell me the best way to do this, the costings involved and the monthly fees

 

[10032012]

hi guys

can anyone help me out on this one


i am away to create a shop on ebay selling around 300 items roughly

can anyone tell me the best way to do this, the costings involved and the monthly fees

See

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/fees.html

 

[sparky011]

I have looked at the fees they charge but they are not very understandable, unless im being thick


300 items will be 10P an item £30.00
Shop per month £14.99

Total

 

[sparky011]

I have looked at the fees they charge but they are not very understandable, unless im being thick


300 items will be 10P an item £30.00
Shop per month £14.99

Total 49.99 PER MONTH

do i have to pay the 300 x 0.10 per month hvery month as well as the insertion fee every month

 

[10032012]

I have looked at the fees they charge but they are not very understandable, unless im being thick


300 items will be 10P an item £30.00
Shop per month £14.99

Total 49.99 PER MONTH

do i have to pay the 300 x 0.10 per month hvery month as well as the insertion fee every month

you are forgetting the final end fees and paypal processing cost (if you go through paypal)

 

[The Cue Store]

Yes you do have to pay £49.99 every month including your eBay Shop Fees if you are going to be putting 300 items a month on eBay.

As 10032012 said you have to figure into it Final Value Fees and PayPal Fees as well.

 

[w0gga]

E-bay fee's are stupidly high, i would set up your own website and only sell a few products on e-bay for the potential customers and direct traffic to your website for future sales cutting the e-bay fees all together. This will take time but worth it in the long run.

 

[The Cue Store]

I agree having your own website would be better and sell a few items on eBay.

This has been suggested on one of my threads.

When you send orders out that you get on eBay put in a business card or flyer along with a voucher for a 5% or 10% discount, but have your website on it instead of your eBay shop.

 

Very much like the idea of the business card idea. I have a ebay site with just over 100 products and my bill is about £40 a month at the moment. im in the process of setting up a website and feel sending out a business card with a 5% or 10% off voucher is a good way of diverting sales to the website.

 

[arcon5]

E-bay fee's are stupidly high, i would set up your own website and only sell a few products on e-bay for the potential customers and direct traffic to your website for future sales cutting the e-bay fees all together. This will take time but worth it in the long run.

Not really.

Once ops website has been set up he has to find customers - this costs money! The £50 you would spend on eBay fees can easily be spent in a PPC program in a portion of that time, and if done incorrectly get no results.

The fact of the matter is people know & trust eBay and their procedures but skeptical of new websites.

Generate £3k for example on eBay and you pay circa £250-£300 in fees, I wouldn't say this was too bad. Especially when you can advertise your company using leaflets, and eBay know this happens.

 

[The Cue Store]

What looks more professional -

• An eBay Shop.
• Having your own website.

I'm going to do the Business Card idea if I every sell anything on eBay.

All you can do is test the water with eBay and see what results you get, but don't put all 300 items on in one go though put a few on to start with.

 

[arcon5]

What looks more professional -

• An eBay Shop.
• Having your own website.

I'm going to do the Business Card idea if I every sell anything on eBay.

All you can do is test the water with eBay and see what results you get, but don't put all 300 items on in one go though put a few on to start with.

An eBay shop and your own website are completely different concepts so not really easy to say one is more professional than the other - after all both concepts could look unprofessional/professional if done wrong/right.

It's not just the little people selling on eBay, you also have large corporations such as Argos using eBay. There are also thousands of business' without a website relying solely on eBay and generating tens of thousands of pounds through them.

If you're going to do it then do it right, otherwise you'll end up making a half hearted effort then wondering why it failed. 300 items will cost either £30 or £15 to list depending on the level of the shop subscription, it's not really bank busting for a much much greater reach.

The problem with eBay is too many people think it's a cash cow, under estimate the effort it takes to generate sales then end up falling flat on their face.

In my experience generating sales via your website as a start-up is a great dealer harder than via eBay. In fact at one point I was taking about £3-£4k pm via eBay versus £1-2k via my website. Although after about six months this was flipped on it's head which I put partly down to the fact I now had a DB of about 2k customers to send newsletters to and partly down to the fact more focus was put on the website.

Business is hard, there's no reason why eBay business' shouldn't be.

 

[The Cue Store]

What if you could get your eBay store to like as near as possible to your own website would that help.

I think the Large Corporations have ruined eBay for the Small Businesses, but that's only my opinion.

As I said on another thread eBay should offer special deals for Small Businesses or Sole Traders.

This is the post - http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=260697&page=6

I can only dream of making that sort of money through either eBay or my own site.

I agree for some business is hard.