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Wait, what? The title is completely misleading. It's not an absulute increase from 9% to 10%. The fee earlier for all the sellers was 9%, now for ebay store own
by zengr 14y ago
Wait, what? The title is completely misleading. It's not an absulute increase from 9% to 10%. The fee earlier for all the sellers was 9%, now for ebay store owners (which mind you is a lot) get rates like 4%, 6% etc based on what items they are selling.
So, ebay is actually giving great price to sellers who sell at scale (now they can open an ebay store, which is definitely a good deal!). They are just trying to promote the adoption of eBay Stores which helps their business and sellers! What's wrong with that?
When Mr. SellSimple reaches the scale at which eBay does their business, we will see how "good" they play and we start critizing them when they actually try to make money (4% cut won't help you in scaling the business).
For casual sellers (the guy who sells his iphone once in 2yrs): They will need to pay 1% extra, which is frankly not much. I sold my iphone4 after 2yrs for $240 + $6 shipping on eBay. I don't mind paying 1% extra.
- anigbrowl 14y agoThe fee earlier for all the sellers was 9% This is not true. It was pretty much the same as the store owner structure with a range of fees for different categories. Don't you think that I checked my facts before posting? You can verify this for yourself using the link below; for example, on a musical instrument selling for $1000 you save $0.50 in insertion fees but your final value goes from $63 to $100. For cameras and consumer electronics, including phones, the increase is greater, from $51.50 to $100. I trade several pieces of quality pro audio gear a year; these changes would cost me hundreds $ in either final value fees or monthly store fees. http://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/news/Feecalculator.html# http://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/news/Feecalculator.h...
- zengr 14y agoI am refering to this table here: http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html http://i.imgur.com/arqYfh6.png http://i.imgur.com/arqYfh6.png
- anigbrowl 14y agoOK, but keep scrolling on that page and you'll see it's a lot more complex, with different fee schedules for different item categories in the table immediately following if you want to offer a Buy It Now option.