All youse guys who find the new eBay fees unpalatable should know that we will gladly accept all your items as consignments at eMoviePoster.com, where *WE *are full well aware there is a major Recession/Depression going on!
Hey, once eBay has extracted every last drop of blood from the *SELLERS*, wouldn't it be a hoot if they instituted a "buyers premium" as well, so that the *BUYERS *could "share the pain"? Bruce On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Sean Linkenback <[email protected]>wrote: > Franc, > Under the current system using your hypothetical auction item starting at > $45 and receiving one bid you are correct. You would pay a $1.00 listing > fee and a final value fee of $2.89, for a total of $3.89. > Under eBay's upcoming model using the same item you would pay a .75¢ > listing fee and a final value fee of $4.05 (9%), for a total of $4.80 > That is a 23% increase in fees for each sale you make at $45.00 > > Dave is correct, that for people who list lots of items in their fixed > price stores there probably will not be a lot of change. > > What it will have an affect on is the few of us that still sell our own > material in true no-reserve auctions with low starting prices - mainly Marty > Davis and myself. > I have run a monthly auction for about three years now and only once did I > use any sort of a fixed-price format. > I will definitely have to re-think that strategy in the future, as current > eBay policy is designed to herd you into setting up fixed-price stores, not > to hold auctions and let the market decide prices like the site was founded > upon. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Franc" <[email protected]> > To: "'Sean Linkenback'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:36 PM > Subject: RE: [MOPO] fleaBay Hikes FVF Rates on over $25 to 9% > > > Sean--- IF you list an item for $45, the listing fee is not $.10, it's > $1.00 and the final value fee is $2.89. Your total commission to Ebay is > $3.89, which equals 8.64% Of course there's always the risk that you'll > not sell the item and you'll be out $1 for the listing. I'd rather pay > the higher commission. Of course that's going to depend on how low those > incredible new fees are going to be. FRANC > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Linkenback [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:08 PM > To: Franc; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOPO] fleaBay Hikes FVF Rates on over $25 to 9% > > > How many dealers are listing items for .99¢ or less? > Not many. > So the trade off for a slight reduction in listing fees is that for > items > selling for $25 or more where eBay used to take 3.5% of the final > selling > price for their commission, they will now take a full 9% up to a $50 > cap? That's a pretty substantial jump. > > I'd much rather pay the .10¢ listing fee and keep that extra 5.5% of the > > final selling price. > Very poor trade-off in my opinion. > > Will definitely affect my listings for this upcoming year. > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Franc" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:34 PM > Subject: Re: [MOPO] fleaBay Hikes FVF Rates on over $25 to 9% > > > Hi Richard --- I have to disagree with you on this one. I think most >> dealers would prefer this, especially if you list for $.99 or under >> for which there will be no listing fees. If you list at a price above >> $.99, the insertion fees will be drastically reduced. I think this is >> a smart move because the dealer only winds up paying a 9% commission >> if the item sells. >> >> FRANC >> >> >> Original Message----- >> From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Richard Halegua Comic Art >> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:47 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [MOPO] fleaBay Hikes FVF Rates on over $25 to 9% >> >> >> http://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/news/FeeUpdate2010.html#nsf >> >> those jokers are doing the most they can to make it as useless an >> engine as anything could possibly be >> >> they're knocking out certain listing fees and charging you a whopping >> 9% on items over $25 in final value fees >> >> I can hear that dirge playing already. >> >> http://www.ilovewavs.com/Effects/Music/Sound%20Effect%20-%20Funeral%20 >> Ma >> rch.wav >> >> 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. >> > > 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.
