eBay Fees on the rise again; And people b**tch about the iPod/iTunes monopoly

[Raduque]

Wow, a whole five cents and a 1/4th a percent... man, no wonder I don't buy from fleabay.... you fleabay sellers are anal.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Raduque
Wow, a whole five cents and a 1/4th a percent... man, no wonder I don't buy from fleabay.... you fleabay sellers are anal.

http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y07/m01/i03/s00

Let's use an example of an item with a starting price of $5 that ends with a winning bid of $50. Under the existing fee structure, sellers would pay a total of $2.41 in eBay listing and commission fees. Under the new fee structure, sellers would pay $2.52, an increase of 4.56 percent. Take the same item, but assume it sells for $1500, and sellers would pay 6.48 percent higher fees ($40.90 instead of $38.41).

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Balt
My first experience selling through ebay/paypal was also my last. Too much legwork on my part and too little on theirs for the amount of fees they charge.

To their credit, eBay/PayPal integration is pretty seamless. It's very quick for sellers to print off USPS or UPS shipping labels using PayPal with pre-filled information from eBay. It only take me a few clicks from auction close to printing a label to mail out a package.

That being said, I definitely wouldn't mind extra legwork if Google was allowed as a payment choice.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Balt
My first experience selling through ebay/paypal was also my last. Too much legwork on my part and too little on theirs for the amount of fees they charge.

To their credit, eBay/PayPal integration is pretty seamless. It's very quick for sellers to print off USPS or UPS shipping labels using PayPal with pre-filled information from eBay. It only take me a few clicks from auction close to printing a label to mail out a package.

That being said, I definitely wouldn't mind extra legwork if Google was allowed as a payment choice.

In looking at your other example:

Let's use an example of an item with a starting price of $5 that ends with a winning bid of $50. Under the existing fee structure, sellers would pay a total of $2.41 in eBay listing and commission fees. Under the new fee structure, sellers would pay $2.52, an increase of 4.56 percent. Take the same item, but assume it sells for $1500, and sellers would pay 6.48 percent higher fees ($40.90 instead of $38.41).

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For the $50 item, you are paying an additional $0.11. It is going to be worth $0.11 to do a little more legwork? At what value do you put your time? I agree that is is crap they are increasing fees, but in that example, it is only $0.11....

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Uppsala9496
For the $50 item, you are paying an additional $0.11. It is going to be worth $0.11 to do a little more legwork? At what value do you put your time? I agree that is is crap they are increasing fees, but in that example, it is only $0.11....

If eBay kept this fee increase in play, but allowed the use of Google Checkout, then the extra legwork would DEFINITELY be worth it. Google Checkout is currently fee-less for the rest of 2007.

For the month of October, I paid $399.48 in eBay seller fees. I paid an additional $232.59 in PayPal fees. If my PayPal fees were totally eliminated, I sure as hell wouldn't mind a small increase in eBay fees.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: randay
i have 13 dollars in credit because they fvcked up, i dont plan on ever selling again, is there any way i can collect my money?

Call ebay and tell them to apply the amount to your credit card (if you have one on file).

 

[meltdown75]

I got the email last night too. I can see some increases here and there, but you would think that eBay / Paypal is already raking it in hand over fist and would know when to quit.

I appreciate the service and know that selling stuff using traditional means would mean a lot more legwork for me, and time is money. However it just proves that a company like eBay is never satisfied and is STILL greedy.

I am impressed with the new options for selling though, such as templates you can save and other options that look improved as far as listing items. Seems to be streamlined, although it was pretty old-school a couple months ago and drastically needed an overhaul.

 

[Ramma2]

eBay enables me to sell stuff that I would never be able to sell in the local market, and allows me to sell items at a greater profit to myself than if I sold locally only.

No complaints from me.

 

[fatpat268]

I don't mind the fees too much, as I don't really sell all that often. But what bugs me is the fact that ebay keeps raising their fees. For what? They haven't offered anything different to warrant a constant rate change.

It's funny how ebay words it like they're raising the rates as a favor to the seller. BS

 

[Imported]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Imported

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Tom
Something to consider for sellers who can't wait for Google to get in this business..

The most important commodity for sellers is..buyers. Having one large market to peddle your wares may be better than having two smaller markets.

btw, I always find it amusing that sellers can't see the enormous value they get from the Ebay market. Compared to just about any other method to reach buyers, it's incredibly effective and inexpensive.

I think that most eBay sellers are calling for Google Checkout payment options, not a full on Google Auctions assault.

Google Checkout would at least keep eBay on their toes with PayPal fees. As of now, eBay has this to say about Google Checkout:

http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m07/i06/s02

c'mon...that HAS to be breaking some anti-trust laws.

So when is someone gonna sue eBay? That is worse than the Apple monopoly lawsuit imo.

Class-auction lawsuit time! 😀

Count me in!

 

[jlbenedict]

Originally posted by: Slick5150
I really wish Yahoo would push their auction site harder. There just aren't enough people using it to justify putting anything on there.

I used to use it alot back in the day. It was just as popular as eBay, back when online auctioning began to take off.
Another computer enthusiast auction site was Haggle (haggle.com), but has gone away.

eBay has definately monopolized the online auction game.

 

[Syringer]

Amazon tried to take over eBay back in its earlier days, which many felt was superior..and given their huge user base at the time seemed like it could compete with eBay..but failed miserably. Ebay controls too much of the market for users to consider changing..compared to something like a search engine that users can easily switch if a superior product came along. The base of buyers and sellers are much too dedicated and strong to go elsewhere, and the nature of the business makes it nearly impossible for a new player to come along.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Syringer
Amazon tried to take over eBay back in its earlier days, which many felt was superior..and given their huge user base at the time seemed like it could compete with eBay..but failed miserably. Ebay controls too much of the market for users to consider changing..compared to something like a search engine that users can easily switch if a superior product came along. The base of buyers and sellers are much too dedicated and strong to go elsewhere, and the nature of the business makes it nearly impossible for a new player to come along.

I've been selling on eBay for 8 years. I don't know where else to go but eBay. I know that there are other online auction venues out there, but none seem to be as prominent or generate as much traffic.

And I've also built up a feedback a 100% feedback of 1996. I'd have to start from scratch somewhere else.