Ebay is lowering listing fees but final value fees will go up.
By luvstochat
@luvstochat (6907)
United States
January 29, 2008 11:54am CST
Ebay is going to lower their listing fees by about 50% to in effert to boost listings that sounded good until you read on and see they will be raising the final value fees of things that sell by about 67% those effected the most will be things that sell under $25. So is lowering the listing fees really going to do any good?
This was reprted by cnn here is the link to read:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/01/29/ebay.fees.ap/index.html
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3 responses
@fineartist (1217)
• United States
31 Jan 08
I am not happy about this change at all.
It is bad news for the small sellers on ebay.
I find this especially bad for myself. I list very small paintings on ebay and most of them are in the range of less than $25.
Since this change will be bad for my business, I am not sure as to what I am going to do.
But, I won't give up selling on ebay since ebay is where the buyers are, it seems.
However I will look for and try out new venues to make online sales.
@HellaBass (117)
• United States
30 Jan 08
The way I read it, if you count the free gallery photo, which I always do... It is less expensive to sell something for less then $10
@dvschic (1795)
• United States
29 Jan 08
thats horrible! they make the least from us smaller sellers so i guess they need to find a way to keep their money going. oh well, i'll jsut go on amazon or even craigslist until the realize their fees are driving customers away. i hate their fees as it is. what are we paying about 10 to 20% on items that sell for under 20 (once u figure in the listing fees, gallery)
