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Changes to eBay’s Pricing Plan Could Whack Shares by 20%

Some analysts seem to believe that eBay's 'take' is 8.1%, where that figure comes from Lord only knows.

I blogged this issue. tinyurl.com/65ll4t

Using a $9.99 fixed price item for a one time listing sale, with at cost S&H of $5, the combined actual eBay/PayPal take is 19.5%

If we loose the insertion fees and up the final value fee from 8.75% to 15% the combined eBay/PayPal take figure rises to 22.3%.

Note that this is on a single transaction and does not in any way take into account the catastrophic drop in sales directly attributable to the new unfinding eBay experience.

Given the how low can you go sell through rates on eBay today, maybe losing the listing insertion fees would be a fitting punishment for eBay management as they try to discover how to be Amazon without inventory or customer service.