Franc,
Under the current system using your hypothetical auction item starting at
$45 and receiving one bid you are correct. You would pay a $1.00 listing
fee and a final value fee of $2.89, for a total of $3.89.
Under eBay's upcoming model using the same item you would pay a .75¢ listing
fee and a final value fee of $4.05 (9%), for a total of $4.80
That is a 23% increase in fees for each sale you make at $45.00
Dave is correct, that for people who list lots of items in their fixed price
stores there probably will not be a lot of change.
What it will have an affect on is the few of us that still sell our own
material in true no-reserve auctions with low starting prices - mainly Marty
Davis and myself.
I have run a monthly auction for about three years now and only once did I
use any sort of a fixed-price format.
I will definitely have to re-think that strategy in the future, as current
eBay policy is designed to herd you into setting up fixed-price stores, not
to hold auctions and let the market decide prices like the site was founded
upon.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Franc" <fdav...@verizon.net>
To: "'Sean Linkenback'" <slinkenb...@comcast.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:36 PM
Subject: RE: [MOPO] fleaBay Hikes FVF Rates on over $25 to 9%
Sean--- IF you list an item for $45, the listing fee is not $.10, it's
$1.00 and the final value fee is $2.89. Your total commission to Ebay is
$3.89, which equals 8.64% Of course there's always the risk that you'll
not sell the item and you'll be out $1 for the listing. I'd rather pay
the higher commission. Of course that's going to depend on how low those
incredible new fees are going to be. FRANC
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Linkenback [mailto:slinkenb...@comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:08 PM
To: Franc; MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: Re: [MOPO] fleaBay Hikes FVF Rates on over $25 to 9%
How many dealers are listing items for .99¢ or less?
Not many.
So the trade off for a slight reduction in listing fees is that for
items
selling for $25 or more where eBay used to take 3.5% of the final
selling
price for their commission, they will now take a full 9% up to a $50
cap? That's a pretty substantial jump.
I'd much rather pay the .10¢ listing fee and keep that extra 5.5% of the
final selling price.
Very poor trade-off in my opinion.
Will definitely affect my listings for this upcoming year.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Franc" <fdav...@verizon.net>
To: <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] fleaBay Hikes FVF Rates on over $25 to 9%
Hi Richard --- I have to disagree with you on this one. I think most
dealers would prefer this, especially if you list for $.99 or under
for which there will be no listing fees. If you list at a price above
$.99, the insertion fees will be drastically reduced. I think this is
a smart move because the dealer only winds up paying a 9% commission
if the item sells.
FRANC
Original Message-----
From: MoPo List [mailto:mop...@listserv.american.edu] On Behalf Of
Richard Halegua Comic Art
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:47 PM
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: [MOPO] fleaBay Hikes FVF Rates on over $25 to 9%
http://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/news/FeeUpdate2010.html#nsf
those jokers are doing the most they can to make it as useless an
engine as anything could possibly be
they're knocking out certain listing fees and charging you a whopping
9% on items over $25 in final value fees
I can hear that dirge playing already.
http://www.ilovewavs.com/Effects/Music/Sound%20Effect%20-%20Funeral%20
Ma
rch.wav
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