Re: [MOPO] Are MoPo sellers accepting eBay's massive price rise?

[JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia]

I will be restructuring my business a little but will not close my store in the immediate future. I will eventually move most of my stock to my website, which is doing quite well, and sell less through eBay. eBay will now be charging 10% commission on store items that sell for under $25.00. Add this to higher listing fees and various other charges plus the lack of visibility in their search engines and the result will be that many sellers will certainly close up their stores.   I believe that one of the reasons eBay has made this decision is to try to weed out sellers who load up their stores with many bogus items or sellers who inflate shipping costs and other charges. I think things have almost reached the point where they are not able to control the site. They seem to rely on reports from users to manage fraud etc and many scammers slip through the net. There are some new scams that have surfaced reecently that must be of great concern to them. They also want more sellers to use the auction format instead of stores. Many sellers have realised that eBay auctions are no longer the way to go.   I think their strategy is extremely risky and they will lose many sellers as a result.   The reaction in Australia has been huge with a petition against the fee hikes now reaching over 4000 replies http://forums.ebay.com.au/thread.jspa?threadID=500024740&tstart=0&mod=1156283641454 ______________________________________________________________   Please visit my NEW Website for a huge range of Movie Posters, Lobby cards, Autographs and movie memorabilia:   Website: www.moviemem.com   Newsletter: http://www.moviemem.com/pages/newsletter.php   Exhibitions: http://www.moviemem.com/pages/page.php?page=15   JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA PO Box 92 Palm Beach Qld 4221 Australia     ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Auras To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:23 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Are MoPo sellers accepting eBay's massive price rise? This was a good question and I am glad to hear others feelings on this.  I myself am sitting on the wall with really nowhere to go.  I deal primarily in lower end material with none of the great A titles many of you have to offer.  I am a hobbyist who does this around a normal day job and family.  I don't have the luxury of shows and events here in San Antonio to set up in.  I don't have the time to build and maintain a website and I don't have a physical storefront to sell from.  I did my selling for 9 years through auctions on ebay before switching to 10% auctions and 90% ebay store.  I was just breaking even with the auction only by the time I decided to migrate to the store method.  At 2 cents a post I was making some money again and was working to get my store up to 10,000 to 12,000 items.  Sales were enough to pay for this and give me money to continue buying for myself and resale.  This increase just has me worried.  I don't want to increase my prices to try to balance things because that will scare buyers away.  This is getting to be the season when things normally pick up for me so I guess the next 4 or 5 months will give me the direction I need.  I just hope I don't fall of this wall in the meantime.   Rick   (ilovefilms)   Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.