New ebay fees

[Noirish]

Time to invest in eBay.
Geez, that's almost like 50%-100% increase in everything.

 

[jpeyton]

eBay's shares fell $4 today.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: catnap1972

Originally posted by: BD2003

I too, was having a fit over the new fees. Then I realized that it mainly only applies to stores, which I dont use. Man, they should really make that a LOT clearer.

Trial balloon...they're just seeing how much outrage (or flak) they get with the new FVFs for Ebay Stores. I'll bet you they change the fee structure on the "normal" auctions within the year if they get away with this.

Oh I realize that, but I think its farily outrageous and if it happens to all FVFs, it probably wont be as bad.

 

[jpeyton]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...=1&ssPageName=WDVW

 

[Spencer278]

Originally posted by: daveymark

Originally posted by: jpeyton
For all the complaining, eBay has still managed to provide us with something nobody else...a marketplace to buy and sell with an enormous amount of customer traffic.

I'm not losing sleep over another $.50-$1 per auction. Sure, it can add up, but not to the point where it hurts.

small time sellers aren't going to get hurt by this. It's the power sellers thast sell small ticket items that get hurt by this. Especially the ones with ebay stores. Even the big ticket items get a huge hit if it's being sold in an ebay store.


hence, wagglepop

who knows if it will get shot down, just like bidville did, but at least someone is taking a shot at ebay. How can you know unless you try.

Power sellers never have any good deals and just spam ebay with thusands of items making it impossble to get to real actutions.

 

[catnap1972]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
eBay's shares fell $4 today.

Stock sank close to $20 today.

And going back to my "trial balloon" theory, for those of you who have run auctions in the past month or so, go into your seller account and check the current invoice (or your current standing if it's more recent). Take note of all the auctions beyond January 10th or so...there's a new entry attatched to the 7-day listings titled "SPECIAL 7 DAY DURATION FEE". So far there's nothing next to it, but me thinks they're going to do a rate jack soon based on listing durations (or else why would they put that there?)

 

[Regs]

It was bound to happen with all the trolls on the damn thing.

 

[Slickone]

Fees start tomorrow.

BTW, speaking of fees, they charge $.25 for a small photo to appear in search results. I'm pretty sure that was free at one time. I'm trying to decide if it's worth paying for. When you do searches, do you ever only check out the auctions that have the small photo of the item in the search results?

 

[neonerd]

probably because of their little contest giveaway

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: Slickone
Fees start tomorrow.

BTW, speaking of fees, they charge $.25 for a small photo to appear in search results. I'm pretty sure that was free at one time. I'm trying to decide if it's worth paying for. When you do searches, do you ever only check out the auctions that have the small photo of the item in the search results?

"only", no, but they are certainly the most eye-catching.

 

[Slickone]

Originally posted by: Yossarian

Originally posted by: Slickone
Fees start tomorrow.

BTW, speaking of fees, they charge $.25 for a small photo to appear in search results. I'm pretty sure that was free at one time. I'm trying to decide if it's worth paying for. When you do searches, do you ever only check out the auctions that have the small photo of the item in the search results?

"only", no, but they are certainly the most eye-catching.

Possibly meaning not always, but sometimes you tend to? That's probably the way I am.

 

[Slickone]

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[WiseOldDude]

And paypal can pound sand.

I can't use paypal as I REFUSE to abide by their outragous requirements. I have bought stuff with a perfectly valid VISA or MasterCard. Now before they will let me use them further I must (according to them) supply them with checking account information including routing number and account number? when pigs fly.

If you sell, and accept only paypal, well tough, I won't bid, or I might and refuse to provide checking account info to use a valid CC. Sellers are the only ones that can change this stupid requirement, this I make the reason clear to the seller so that they can demand paypal back the f**k off