Anyone see the new ebay prices?

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its gone up like crazy

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).
 
that 2.75% increase has the most impact

tho maybe this will stop salehoarders from buying and dumping...probably not
 
The only thing that would affect me is the final value fee increase, but it looks like they only raised it for eBay stores.
 
At least the Buy It Now fee increases isn't too bad but it will add up. I really liked the $0.05 flat rate.

I hope they don't increase the listing fees for a buy it now only listing now as well but I'm think they will.
 
I am hoping more ebay competitors will pop up because of the price hikes. There's not a whole lot of competition they have to go up against, which is why they keep getting higher.
 
From 5.25% to 8% is a pretty big increase of the final value fee. Now more people will charge higher shipping costs to cover this. I got the email from ebay and was going to start a topic like this if not for the OP doing it first. I know I will probably not list as many items after Feb. 18th. For the good of all of us, eBay needs some serious competition, otherwise this will just get worse. And the final value increase is for all items right, not just eBay stores?

Edit: And how could I forget, PAYPAL IS EVEN WORSE! I offer a discount on shipping if buyers pay with a MO. Paypal is a HUGE ripoff and eBay is heading in that direction! :censored:
 
[quote name='onikage']From 5.25% to 8% is a pretty big increase of the final value fee. Now more people will charge higher shipping costs to cover this. I got the email from ebay and was going to start a topic like this if not for the OP doing it first. I know I will probably not list as many items after Feb. 18th. For the good of all of us, eBay needs some serious competition, otherwise this will just get worse. And the final value increase is for all items right, not just eBay stores?[/quote]

I haven't gotten an email from ebay about the increases so I am just going off of mousin's original post. From what I read there, it makes it sound like the final value fee is only for stores. If it does apply to all sellers, then I'm done with ebay when they go in effect. They're taking too much money as it is now. Especially when you figure in the cut they also get when you use paypal.
 
I didn't get this e-mail either. Though I'm glad it's feb 18th. I don't like shipping from canada so I normally wait till I go home to list. I'll be home feb 15th, looks like I'll be very busy.
 
[quote name='jbroush99']I haven't gotten an email from ebay about the increases so I am just going off of mousin's original post. From what I read there, it makes it sound like the final value fee is only for stores. If it does apply to all sellers, then I'm done with ebay when they go in effect. They're taking too much money as it is now. Especially when you figure in the cut they also get when you use paypal.[/quote]

i was kind of angry about the final value fee increase, but then i read what you wrote, which made me reread my email. i'm pretty sure that you're right and the increase only applies to ebay stores. the information falls under the "ebay stores" header in the email.
 
Don't panic too much! jbroush is correct about the FVF increase being only for stores.

http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y05/m01/i12/s00

The closing fee bit is under the section for eBay stores.

Or this from the official announcement:

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/marketing.shtml#2005-01-12075944

Even mousin's OP says 'store inventory items' not all items.

The BIN increase will affect me the most. I use that on almost every auction. Isn't a major increase, but every little bit cuts into my money :(

The gallery feature at just $0.25 was always pretty cheap IMO (though I rarely use it) and with the pictures being enlarged it may be a better bargain even with the extra dime fee.
 
this isnt that big of an increase. As it is, ebay + paypal gets about a flat ten percent of all my sales on ebay. that will go up to about 12 percent now, which isnt that much of an increase imo.

I mean, where else can I unload a high volume of merchandise and get anywhere near these kinds of prices?
 
Hopefully they aren't testing the waters with the raise in eBay store fees to gather data about raising the % to this amount for all FVF.

If I had an eBay store I'd be pretty POed.
 
No, it's not that big of an increase, but how much overhead does Ebay really have ? I'd bet not as much as an actual auction house. Plus there's virtually no liability for them to deal with because it falls mostly upon the seller.

The problem I have is that there's basically no recourse for sellers.
It's a complete hassle to keep hounding people to pay, only getting a portion of your money back, and having to deal with the unwarranted negative feedback. Honest sellers are really at a disadvantage to unscrupulous buyers who want to cheat you out of extras, or claim fraud at the drop of a hat because they know they can get away with it.

When I sold stuff on Ebay I'd get about 10% non-payers. On top of the 10% Ebay takes from total sales (not including MY overhead), having to deal with assholes makes it not worth the aggravation. They should disallow accounts with hotmail address and only allow ID verified bidders with bank accounts and credit cards. Anyone with mal intent can just sign up to bid with some bogus email account and wreak havok with someones auction.

Some will say that bogus sellers are the problem too, but you can always check the feedback of a seller before bidding, sellers can't realistically check a bidders feedback until it's too late.
 
[quote name='jimbodan']that sucks, I guess I gotta charge an extra dollar shipping to cover the new fees[/quote]

ha ha! Brilliant!
 
[quote name='bmulligan']No, it's not that big of an increase, but how much overhead does Ebay really have ? I'd bet not as much as an actual auction house. Plus there's virtually no liability for them to deal with because it falls mostly upon the seller.

The problem I have is that there's basically no recourse for sellers.
It's a complete hassle to keep hounding people to pay, only getting a portion of your money back, and having to deal with the unwarranted negative feedback. Honest sellers are really at a disadvantage to unscrupulous buyers who want to cheat you out of extras, or claim fraud at the drop of a hat because they know they can get away with it.

When I sold stuff on Ebay I'd get about 10% non-payers. On top of the 10% Ebay takes from total sales (not including MY overhead), having to deal with assholes makes it not worth the aggravation. They should disallow accounts with hotmail address and only allow ID verified bidders with bank accounts and credit cards. Anyone with mal intent can just sign up to bid with some bogus email account and wreak havok with someones auction.

Some will say that bogus sellers are the problem too, but you can always check the feedback of a seller before bidding, sellers can't realistically check a bidders feedback until it's too late.[/quote]

Damn 10% NPB? I've had 4 NPBs out of about 200 auctions so I've been a lot luckier on that front.

I could see eBay allowing sellers to optionally bar buyers who don't meet criteria like you specify from their listings. But some sellers wouldn't want the process to be so strict, it will just translate into fewer buyers.

They already let you bar buyers with negative feedback, they could expand that to let you bar buyers with feedback below some amount you set. But again eBay probably doesn't want to do stuff that will leave a bad taste in the mouth of new bidders.
 
I probably had somewhere around 10% NPB's as well. 90% of EBay items I list now are buy it now only with immediate payment required. So I haven't dealt with a non paying bidder since the summer.
 
10% is very high imo for NPB. I am at about 5%. Usually the buyers pay right away.

and yeah, auctions with immediate payment required arent a bad idea.
 
ebay owns paypal, that is why paypal is a rip off. immediate payment is a nice option, but it turns off honest buyers -it doesn't make much sense that someone who is going to pay right away anyway would care that they have to, but they do. still- we can make money on ebay and that's why we use it. half.com isn't bad because you can set higher than ebay prices and wait. you don't pay to list, just when the item sells (the fees still suck, it's owned by ebay also). things will sell on half.com for up to 15 percent more than they would on ebay and the buyer pays half.com then the site pays you. anyway it's another option.
 
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