eBay Lowers Fees, Raises Commissions

[dgridley]

eBay plans to lower listing fees as of Feb 20 but plans to raise commissions on sales under $25 to 8.75%!

To me, that's the wrong direction as it will penalize all the small-timers and people selling smaller (less expensive) items like individual baseball cards, dvd's, and personal vibrators! Seriously, used to be I wouldn't list anything I couldn't get at least $20 for because of the associated insertion, final value, and PayPal fees.. now it'll be next to impossible to turn a profit on smaller items unless you sell in bulk. People will just stop listing under $25 items and/or move over to Amazon (no listing fees).

EBay cutting listing fees, boosting commissions - CNN.com

 

[johname]

all this is, is telling the people there lowering listing fees, when in reality they are jacking up the part of ebay they make the big bucks on, that the final sales fees.

what they are doing is they know the ecomony is getting bad, forclosers are high, and they know people are going to dig up more stuff to sell and they want a bigger slice of the pie. Oh but lets dangal lower insertion fees over the little people's heads

 

[dgridley]

it's those smaller sales that help make eBay what it is..

 

[johname]

Na they make a killing off the final value fees of stuff $25 and up. Just think of all those cars they sell too. Take a look at equipment, they sell forklifts, everything. The post office was the first to screw up under $20 things on ebay by tripping over themselves to raise rates all the time

Here is sellers reactions
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/...tive-feedback-on-ebay-changes/?ref=technology

 

[DDC_Cyn]

This is really going to hurt the small seller. I also find it interesting that my husband, who ebays every day, noticed the decrease in fees but not the rise in commission - obviously the "news" is set to give the impression that they're doing you a favor.

 

[dgridley]

There's an upper limit on final value fees.. so it's not like you pay anymore for an item that sells for $1 million vs $100k for example.. this hurts the smaller seller in the pocketbook for sure.

Na they make a killing off the final value fees of stuff $25 and up. Just think of all those cars they sell too. Take a look at equipment, they sell forklifts, everything. The post office was the first to screw up under $20 things on ebay by tripping over themselves to raise rates all the time

Here is sellers reactions
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/...tive-feedback-on-ebay-changes/?ref=technology

 

[DotUSDomains]

They may aswell up the fee's on Paypal also and just totally screw us all.

No point doing thing's in half's

I'll never ever sell anything or buy anything on ebay ever again. (have not done so for going on 2 yr's now)

 

[johname]

There going to make it so sellers cant leave negative feedback to buyers. WoW that sucks, buyers will be giving out negative feedback like crazy now. Get ready for customers to complain about everything and demand refunds "or ill give you a negetive"

 

[dgridley]

That does suck, but the feedback system sucks anyway. Most sellers are afraid to leave negs for buyers to begin with (and vice-versa) because of a possible retaliatory neg anyway.

There going to make it so sellers cant leave negative feedback to buyers. WoW that sucks, buyers will be giving out negative feedback like crazy now. Get ready for customers to complain about everything and demand refunds "or ill give you a negetive"

 

[johname]

Also in todays ebay news...there this guy that works for the state of new york that was stealing historic documents and selling them on ebay to pay off his bills. they think hes been doing it for years. If you search long enough the auction that caught him is still up. lol

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080129/ap_on_re_us/artifact_arrest_7

 

[Halobitt]

Fancy posting a link Johname? I had a wee look but couldn't find it.

 

[johname]

Fancy posting a link Johname? I had a wee look but couldn't find it.

I am guessing you mean the auction guy in new york, (i posted two links here in this thread)

not hard at all to find the day i posted this, maybe ebay pulled the auction from their completed results, they do that with bad auctions