Shelly

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

If eBay lowered insertion fees and raised FVF even 1% it would have to exceed any price reduction that the free listing would offer. Most sellers understand that most often a higher price can be achieved with a BIN than an auction- that increase would more than cover the nickle, dime. 20 cents, or top price of a quarter for the BIN option. If these sellers fail to list a BIN to save at most a quarter when they could sell the item $2 at least more then I don't think free insertion is going to help those sellers.

Insertion fees are like nothing now compared to store FVFs that commission + PayPal + the store fee + picture manager these are what makeup the outrageous fees. With the speculation of FVF on shipping it is even more costly to go this route. As it is I have been considering getting rid of international selling, because the paypal fees are so high for international. I don't even charge full postage fees for domestic or international- nothing for materials- I already pay 3.9% + 2.5% thing + the 30 cents to paypal on that - I can't afford eBay to take 12% on international or domestic. These scheme of we'll give you a dime and we'll take 3 dollars is not going to get the job done in regards to getting anyone to stick around- frankly this will drives them away real fast

On Aug 17 10:55 PM TheBrewsNews wrote:

> If eBay doesn't change their fee structure, more and more Powersellers
> are going to list their items elsewhere and then eBay's revenue will
> suffer since they will lose both the insertion fee and the final
> value fee. The total costs to eBay sellers are already too high.
> Total fees to many Amazon sellers is 15-20% and includes the payent
> processing fee. Total fees to many eBay sellers is 25 - 35% when
> you factor in all the selling fees and PayPal fees. That fee structure
> is simply not sustainable.
>
> If eBay lowers insertion fees and raises final value fees, the average
> selling price will likely increase slightly as more sellers would
> be inclined to offer items at fixed price rather than auction. Fixed
> price almost always brings a higher selling price. In addition,
> with a greater number of listings and other revenue streams such
> as ad placement, eBay could more than make up for the lower insertion
> fees which would also be offset by higher final value fees on higher
> selling prices.
>