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EBAY fee changes, fee policy changes, rate changes for fees
 

Like clockwork, every year ebay raises its fees.

What will they raise them to this year?

LiveHelp says they haven't heard anything. I wonder if ebay will raise them.

EBAY fee changes, fee policy changes, rate changes for fees
 

eBay to Increase Final Value Fees, Lower Listing Fees..
Good for us, eh?

eBay Expected to Announce Fee Changes Soon

That sounds like good news to me.
I think things might start to turn in our favor in the future. Ebay is really hurting, buyers are getting very frustrated with there experience and it all comes down to there ridiculous fees putting sellers out of business or making it impossible for us to move our inventory.
Amazon might be our savior we just need a competitor, to keep ebay straight.
More importantly we need a competitor to paypal. That is why this forum is so great. It really stresses using a merchant account. Heck merchant account fees are less, why doesnt everyone use them?

There's lots of competitors to paypal. Most of these competitors are listed on http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy.html under the section "Payment Services not permitted on eBay"

Amazon buyout coming soon

EBay cutting listing fees, boosting commissions - CNN article
 

Here is an article from CNN


EBay cutting listing fees, boosting commissions - CNN.com

Meanwhile they just about double the Final Value Fees!! I wonder if eBay paid CNN to selectively report this crap. :mad:

NEW FEES Effective Febuary 20th 2008
 

Insertion Fees for Auction-style listings
Effective 02/20/2008

Starting or Reserve Price Insertion Fee
$0.01 - $0.99 $0.15 Lower fee!
$1.00 - $9.99 $0.35 Lower fee!
$10.00 - $24.99 $0.55 Lower fee!
$25.00 - $49.99 $1.00 Lower fee!
$50.00 - $199.99 $2.00 Lower fee!
$200.00 - $499.99 $3.00 Lower fee!
$500.00 or more $4.00 Lower fee!

Insertion Fee for Media (Books, Music, DVDs & Movies, and Video Games)
$0.01 - $0.99 $0.10 Lower fee!
$1.00 - $9.99 $0.25 Lower fee!
$10.00 - $24.99 $0.35 Lower fee!
$25.00 - $49.99 $1.00 Lower fee!
$50.00 - $199.99 $2.00 Lower fee!
$200.00 - $499.99 $3.00 Lower fee!
$500.00 or more $4.00 Lower fee!

Fixed Prices
$0.01 - $0.99 N/A
$1.00 - $9.99 $0.35 Lower fee!
$10.00 - $24.99 $0.55 Lower fee!
$25.00 - $49.99 $1.00 Lower fee!
$50.00 - $199.99 $2.00 Lower fee!
$200.00 - $499.99 $3.00 Lower fee!
$500.00 or more $4.00 Lower fee!

Fixed Prices for Media (Books, Music, DVDs & Movies, and Video Games)
$0.01 - $0.99 N/A
$1.00 - $9.99 $0.25 Lower fee!
$10.00 - $24.99 $0.35 Lower fee!
$25.00 - $49.99 $1.00 Lower fee!
$50.00 - $199.99 $2.00 Lower fee!
$200.00 - $499.99 $3.00 Lower fee!
$500.00 or more $4.00 Lower fee!

Galleries
Auction-style Listings FREE
Fixed Price Listings FREE
Store Inventory Listings FREE
Classified Ads Variable FREE

Final Value Fees
Item not sold No fee No change
$0.01-$25.00 8.75% of the closing value
$25.01 - $1,000.00 8.75% of the initial $25.00, plus 3.50% of the remaining closing value balance ($25.01 to $1,000.00)
Over $1,000.01 8.75% of the initial $25.00, plus 3.50% of the initial $25.00 - $1,000.00 plus 1.50% of the remaining closing value balance ($1,000.01 - closing value)


To see the full list of new fees gohere

Didnt they say they will by taking something like 66% more of the final sale price?

yeah it used to be 5.25% of the initial $25.00, plus 3.25% of the remaining closing value balance ($25.01 to $1,000.00) so they upped it to 8.75% which is 66% more than before.

The Final value fee increase is a 66% increase in their fees!

So if I sell a 6,000 item, fee would be 480?!?! 8% of 1000=80x6=480
Wow absolutely ridiculous.

This is the way it works 8.75% of the initial $25.00, plus 3.50% of the initial $25.00 - $1,000.00 plus 1.50% of the remaining closing value balance ($1,000.01 - closing value)

so for $6,000 its 8.75% of the first 25.00=2.18 + 3.50% of 25.00-1,000.00=34.12 + 1.50% of 1,000-6,000=75

the total final value fee is 2.18+34.12+75.00=$111.30

Omg hell yeah!!!! Lower fees, I LOVE EBAY woohooooooooo!!!!!


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Oh...can you tell I did good in math class? :p Thx for explanation, I was about to freak.

Haha that would be an insane fee, math was the only thing I was good at in school except gym class.

eBay changes the fees ...but doesn't update their own terms and conditions!
 

They monkeys at eBay managed to introduce the new fees promptly, but apparently forgot to update the terms and fees schedule on their own website:

Because eBay.com Fees is still showing the old fees schedule. Oh what an amazing customer service experience.

It would be worthwhile to print that out. Sell with the old fees and if there is
are hassles later....what is this paper?

Funny, about 3 hours after I posted this, they updated it.

eBay, if you're reading this ..go **** yourself. :D

LOL! I wonder how else we can manipulate them to make changes :)

How about striking until we see some changes. 1 week is NOT long enough!
Take that eGay!

I don't think any kind of strike would effect ebay majorly. There are to many newbies licking their arse...

Strikes never work. Look at the writers strike. Didn't really get anything accept months and months w/o The Office.

This forum is the welcome site at ebay headquarters.

eBay Hints at New Fee Structure
 

Public comments by eBay executives earlier this week fueled speculation about a move to a free listing model.

eBay would not officially confirm such a plan is in the works. Nevertheless, separate statements by top eBay personnel seemed to indicate that the online auction giant this year will significantly overhaul its pricing structure. Currently eBay charges sellers a fee when they list their items and takes a percentage cut after the sale, based on actual selling prices.

Speaking Wednesday at the Spring eCommerce Summit in New Orleans, Lorrie Norrington, head of eBay's global marketplaces operation, suggested more changes to eBay's fee structure are in the pipeline. The Spring eCommerce Summit is hosted by the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance (PESA).

"Over the coming months we'll be making more price changes that will improve the economics of selling on eBay," Norrington told the PESA gathering. "Expect to see more success-based pricing, category specific pricing and financial rewards for those sellers who are creating great buyer experiences."

That declaration came two days after a similar message was heard from Jody Ford, director of seller proposition at eBay. During a workshop at the Catalyst U.K. conference, Ford announced eBay is heading toward a pricing structure that would do away with insertion fees, according to a well known eBay blogger, who attended the event.

"Having already reduced [fees] in January this year, they are looking toward a pricing structure which would include free insertion fees to enable sellers to list all of their inventory on the site," reported TameBay's Chris Dawson, blogging live from the Catalyst event in London. "There are no timescales, but free insertion fees are definitely on the agenda for some products/categories/listing formats."

A spokesman for eBay downplayed the "free" aspect, however. eBay is "planning to further rebalance pricing, shifting risk away from sellers and onto eBay," said Usher Lieberman, senior manager of corporate communications, in an e-mail to Auctiva's editorial staff. "What that means is we are looking to lower insertion fees and raise our final value (or commission) fees."

A fee reduction that took effect in February has already slashed insertion fees for most product categories and increased the commission eBay takes from the final selling price.

It's possible the free would have a bad catch like you have to give paypal your social security number or else be a high level power seller with all 4.8 DSRs.

I know this thread is old but I had to add to it) Well if this site is indexed by any search engine they probably received an alert when it was posted...something to keep in mind. There are two services for this: Google Alerts and the new Trackur (I use both)