Ebay listing price increase?

[Clodbuster]

Beginning March 30, new Ebay prices.


Option 1: "eBay Everyday" Standard Rates

- List up to 100 items a month Auction-style free—no Insertion Fees—when you start your Auction-style listing under $1.

- Get new, lower Insertion Fees for all other start prices.

- Either way, pay one easy Final Value Fee of 9% of the winning bid—and never more than $50—pay only if your item sells.

- List in Fixed Price for 50¢ with Final Value Fees mostly the same as today​

Option 2: eBay Stores Subscription Packages

- List in Fixed Price with full search exposure for as low as 3¢ Insertion Fees with Final Value Fees for the most part the same as today

- Get FREE pictures

- Get deeply discounted fees on Auction-style listings

I read that this is causing quite a ruckus in the States where I believe that it will result in big price increases for the majority of sellers. Any views here???
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[KateCB]

9% plus the PayPal fees - wow! Ebid here I come!

 

[fisicx]

Dunno why they are getting all pear-shaped. Maybe if they set up their own online store or a market stall or boot fair pitch they wouldn't complain about the low cost of selling on ebay.

Hopefull it will get rid of all the caggage and tut that fills most of the categories.

 

[Beachcomber]

IS this just for eBay.com? Not seen any announcements for the UK site.

 

[Clodbuster]

IS this just for eBay.com? Not seen any announcements for the UK site.

I haven't heard anything for UK but sure as nuts are nuts it will follow here.

 

[wizzard]

Looks like it's just ebay.com.

This is an annoucement for ebay.co.uk:

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/uk/201002.shtml#2010-02-01092735

 

[cycloneuk]

It is actually quite cheap to sell on ebay, amazon take what, nearly 18% or something daft like that.

 

[benjamin_c]

looks like they are removing the compulsory "free postage" on games and DVD's and other media, about bloody time imo, stupid idea, ebay used to be a really good place to buy and sell but in recent years it's become one giant ball ache tbh, not to mention loads of new policys and fee increases. i used to sell a lot on ebay and often pay in excess of £150 a month in fees, now i probably sell 4 or 5 items a year, all these stupid changes are pushing away profitable users.

 

[silvermusic]

So glad I dumped eBay and all the baggage that went with it, life's so much easier now, I can do things how I want, when I want, and not worry about all those fees and constant updates and changes. Nothing i've read in the latest news makes me want to bother with it again. The free postage saga is laughable, it should be up to each business if they want to charge postage or not.

The P&P saga reversal by ebay won't actually solve anything, the site has more fundamental problems that need addressing. The constant changes with eBay running round like a headless chicken trying to figure out how to patch things up would be worrying to me if I used it as a source of income now. Thankfully i saw the writing on the wall a year go and made the effort to wean myself off it.

Amazon is childsplay in conparison, stick in a bar code and price and stick it in the post when it sells, each item takes seconds to list and costs me nothing in money or effort until or if it sells, much the same as my web sites. I really couldn't go back to the constant tinkering and worrying about it anymore.

 

[Chris34]

Those fee's are cheaper than what we have now. It's only a bit cheaper but it will just be business as usual.

Even if Ebay was completely free it still wouldn't be the ideal place to sell. Ebay's biggest problem is all the sellers that sell items too cheap. The aim in business is to make a profit but there are too many on Ebay who work in the day in their employed jobs and are happy to sell cheap and make another £50 a week on the side. It kills it for any serious self employed business owners.




Chris.

 

[silvermusic]

Those fee's are cheaper than what we have now. It's only a bit cheaper but it will just be business as usual.

Even if Ebay was completely free it still wouldn't be the ideal place to sell. Ebay's biggest problem is all the sellers that sell items too cheap. The aim in business is to make a profit but there are too many on Ebay who work in the day in their employed jobs and are happy to sell cheap and make another £50 a week on the side. It kills it for any serious self employed business owners.

Chris.

The main problem as I see it is just the shear quantity of product on eBay and with low or zero insertion fees the junk just keeps going round time and again unsold. eBay are under the illusion it's giving buyers more choice.

They were on the right track some years back with the introduction of eBay Express, but that didn't last long. IMHO the site should have been split into two private sellers and businesses (eBay express) several years back. As it stands it's a huge ugly mess and it's trying to be all things to all people which just doesn't work anymore. If it was me in charge one of the first things I'd do would be to increase insertion fees by 50% this would get rid of the junk overnight.

Looking in from the outside I'm so glad not to be part of it anymore, it was a black hole for time which is now put to far better and more profitable use.

 

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The main problem as I see it is just the shear quantity of product on eBay and with low or zero insertion fees the junk just keeps going round time and again unsold. eBay are under the illusion it's giving buyers more choice.

They were on the right track some years back with the introduction of eBay Express, but that didn't last long. IMHO the site should have been split into two private sellers and businesses (eBay express) several years back. As it stands it's a huge ugly mess and it's trying to be all things to all people which just doesn't work anymore. If it was me in charge one of the first things I'd do would be to increase insertion fees by 50% this would get rid of the junk overnight.

Looking in from the outside I'm so glad not to be part of it anymore, it was a black hole for time which is now put to far better and more profitable use.

I would largely agree with you but those selling the junk are also the buyers so having them spending time on and going to ebay is a good thing.

 

[silvermusic]

I would largely agree with you but those selling the junk are also the buyers so having them spending time on and going to ebay is a good thing.

My fault, I should have defined my use of the word "junk" better.

eBay is and always has been a great melting pot for collectors and others to trade all sort of rare, oddball, and impossible to get anywhere else items, and I've bought and sold a good few in my time on there.

The "junk" I'm refering to is stuff that really is exactly that, it doesn't sell yet gets relisted time after time after time in the vain hope it might sell eventually. See how many auctions alone end every hour without a single bid, the figure is staggering.

In the old days when people were charged a sensible rate for insertion fees it acted as a natural filter so the constant going round of the same old junk didn't happen. It's why you got the reinsertion fee refunded if an item sold second time around. After that you had to decide whether it was worth listing again. From my point of view once 30 day listings became the norm for Buy It Now and insertion fees cost pennies or nothing that was the day alarm bells went off that the future of eBay was on a downhill slope for many smaller business sellers. The site has lost it's vibrancy and excitement.