New ebay fees

[MBony]

Check your 'My Messages' in your ebay account if you can't understand my post.

Dear -,

We are writing to let you know that effective midnight PST, February 18, 2005 eBay.com and eBay Motors will be making changes to the fee structure.

The fee changes are as follows:

Gallery
Gallery fees will be raised from $0.25 to $0.35 per listing. We will also be increasing the size of the Gallery image on search and listings pages by 56%. This will make it easier for buyers to see details of the item before clicking into the listing.

Buy It Now
Buy It Now fees will no longer be charged at a flat rate, and will instead be determined based on the Buy It Now price. Fees will be charged as follows:

Buy It Now Price Fee
$0.01 - 9.99 $0.05
$10 - 24.99 $0.10
$25 - 49.99 $0.20
$50+ $0.25

10-Day Duration
The fee for 10-day duration listings will be raised from $0.20 to $0.40 per listing.

eBay Stores
The fee for the Basic eBay Store subscription will be raised from $9.95 to $15.95 per month. The subscription fee for Featured and Anchor Stores will be unchanged.

eBay Store Inventory format listing insertion fees will remain unchanged. The Final Value Fee for Store Inventory items will change as follows:
Closing Price Old Price New Price
$0.01 - $25 5.25% of the closing value 8% of the closing price
$25.01 - $1,000 5.25% of the initial $25, plus 2.75% of the remaining closing value balance. 8% of the initial $25, plus 5% of the remaining closing value balance ($25.01 - $1000)
Over $1,000 5.25% of the initial $25, plus 2.75% of the next $25.01-$1000, plus 1.50% of the remaining closing value balance ($1,000.01 - closing value). 8% of the initial $25, plus 5% of the next $25.01 - $1000, plus 3% of the remaining closing value balance ($1,000.01 - closing value).

Store sellers will continue to be eligible to receive 50% off of the Store Inventory listing final value fees for Store Referral credit. Please click here for details.

Insertion and Final Value Fees
The insertion and Final Value Fees will be changing for items listed in certain Business & Industrial categories. More details about the changes for these categories are provided below. The insertion and Final Value Fees in other categories will not be changing.

Business & Industrial Listings in Certain Categories
The Reserve, insertion and Final Value Fees will be changing for select high item price capital equipment categories in Business & Industrial. Please click here to view the capital equipment categories affected by the pricing change.

The fee changes for these capital equipment categories are as follows:

* Reserve fee: Lowered to $5, refundable if the item sells
* Insertion fee: Raised to $20, regardless of starting price
* Final Value Fee: Lowered to a 1% flat fee, with a $250 maximum charge

Additional listing upgrade fees will remain the same as for eBay.com. Pricing for all other Business & Industrial listings outside the specified capital equipment categories will remain the same as for eBay.com.

eBay will also introduce Buyer Protection covering up to $20,000 per item in these capital equipment categories this spring. eBay will offer this Buyer Protection at no cost to the buyer or seller.

The following fee changes will apply to vehicle listings on eBay Motors.

Fee Changes for eBay Motors Vehicles Listings

Reserve
Reserve will be charged a $5 flat fee for all eBay Motors vehicles categories except Pocket Bikes. This fee will still be refundable if your item sells.

10-Day Listings
The fee for 10-day listings will be changed to $8 for all eBay Motors vehicles categories except Pocket Bikes.

Pocket Bikes Category
The insertion fee and Transaction Services Fee will be lowered from $30 to $3 each.
The following fees will remain the same: Reserve ($2 flat fee, refundable if item sells), Gallery (free), Listing Designer ($5) and Highlight ($5). Motors HomePage Featured fee will be lowered to $24.95 and Vehicle Picture Pack fee will be lowered to $1.50. All other fees will be lowered to become the same as those for eBay Motors Parts & Accessories categories.

For more information about these fee changes, please see our Frequently Asked Questions.

Some international eBay sites have also changed their fee structures. To learn more, please check Announcements for the eBay site of interest.

We understand that fees directly impact our members, and take care to ensure that any decisions to change fees are made only after careful consideration of this impact. These changes will help us continue to sustain and develop a thriving global marketplace, while balancing the needs of our buyers and sellers around the world.

Regards,

eBay

 

[amol]

:thumbsdown:

 

[crawford]

Yea I just got that same email, it really blows.

 

[Yzzim]

increasing gallery image sizes is a good thing :thumbsup:

 

[jst0ney]

Ebay is a bunch of theives and they totally ruined paypal when they bought it out.

 

[RelaxTheMind]

Originally posted by: jst0ney
Ebay is a bunch of theives and they totally ruined paypal when they bought it out.

agreed

 

[CrazyDe1]

Originally posted by: jst0ney
Ebay is a bunch of theives and they totally ruined paypal when they bought it out.

I think they made it better...paypal was horrible before and is still horrible however it's now better integrated with ebay.

 

[tami]

ebay is just full of money mongers

 

[Ns1]

lol i don't see how you can call them a bunch of theives

by far they run the best online auction house out there

what do you expect them to do it for, free?

 

[CrazyDe1]

Originally posted by: tami
ebay is just full of money mongers

As they should be...they're increasing shareholder value and market share. That's exactly what I want them to be doing.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
lol i don't see how you can call them a bunch of theives

by far they run the best online auction house out there

what do you expect them to do it for, free?

because they're not NEARLY rich enough already?:roll:

They already make plenty of money off their stolen goods website, they really didn't need to do this.

 

[dethman]

f'in ebay.

 

[Shawn]

better sell all my stuff ASAP!

 

[Ranger X]

As if eBay wasn't making enough money. This money gouging is terrible!!! The sad part is, they could raise their fees all the want and people will still continue to use them. Without any competition (and no, Yahoo is not considered competition), these thieves can get away with robbery in broad daylight.

 

[imthebadguy]

fvck ebay...ahhh imma start my own auction site, whose onboard

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
lol i don't see how you can call them a bunch of theives

by far they run the best online auction house out there

what do you expect them to do it for, free?

because they're not NEARLY rich enough already?:roll:

They already make plenty of money off their stolen goods website, they really didn't need to do this.

lol that's a GREAT argument for your stockholders - yeah, you guys are rich enough as is, we don't need to increase our profits. that'll keep you as a CEO for a LONG time

 

[CrazyDe1]

Originally posted by: Ranger X
As if eBay wasn't making enough money. This money gouging is terrible!!! The sad part is, they could raise their fees all the want and people will still continue to use them. Without any competition (and no, Yahoo is not considered competition), these thieves can get away with robbery in broad daylight.

How is it gouging? If you don't like it go somewhere else. As long as you have no alternative the prices are reasonable.

Capitalism...it's a great thing. By the way, I probably pay more to ebay than most people here so don't give me crap about ebay gouging the customer.

 

[Albis]

the costs suck but ebay is still a business and they are just looking out for themselves

 

[RabidMongoose]

These fee increases aren't that bad unless you sell under an eBay store - those new FVF increases are significantly larger now.

 

[CrazyDe1]

Well...the other thing you people don't realize is that ebay is moving away from the auction model to more of a buy it now / dealer model. This is not beneficial to the ebay system as the auction format and the excitement and perception of an auction drive people to the site and keep people coming back. After all, who wants to see a bunch of buy it nows a few bucks below retail when an auction would end at way less?

In penalizing higher starting prices and buy it nows, they're trying to move the site more towards a start at .01 model and let the market decide the price. As it is now, the sellers are artificially creating their own markets. Yes, I do this...and there's very easy ways of doing this.

 

[Jhill]

Anyone could see this coming. They have a monopoly on the online auction business. This wasn't the first and won't be the last time new fees happen.

 

[NFS4]

Don't fuggin' use eBay then you bunch of cheapskate batstards. WHINE WHINE WHINE!!!

I've been using eBay since 1998 and I sell an a$$load of stuff there. And you know what, fee increases are apart of everything in life. As for PayPal, it's much better now IMHO. The integration with eBay (and USPS/UPS shipping) makes it alot easier for us sellers out there.

 

[Kipper]

Let's see anybody take their items to another auction site and get as much as they do on eBay. People are so two-faced nowadays. They say Wal-mart is bad, but they shop there. They say Microsoft uses unfair business practices, yet they use Microsoft products.

I'd bet that 100% of the eBay bashing-members in this thread use eBay with regularity.

 

[halik]

booo.... they basically doubled the FV fee for items 25-1000 bucks

so if you sell something for 1000bucks, you pay more than 50 bucks in ebay fees. Combine that with paypal 3% BEFORE they take out that 50 bucks and you're nearing 10%.

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: CrazyDe1

Originally posted by: Ranger X
As if eBay wasn't making enough money. This money gouging is terrible!!! The sad part is, they could raise their fees all the want and people will still continue to use them. Without any competition (and no, Yahoo is not considered competition), these thieves can get away with robbery in broad daylight.

How is it gouging? If you don't like it go somewhere else. As long as you have no alternative the prices are reasonable.

That's an amazing argument.

:roll: