eBay is just using this as an excuse to charge more. They *SHOULD *be looking at ways to increase their sellers' sales, so that as the sellers make more they make more, but instead they only know how to keep raising rates and fees, so they keep getting a higher percentage of each sale, and the seller makes less.
But the Catch 22 of this is that with each new price increase some more sellers leave, so their overall take remains around the same, so they have to start all over again and find some new way to raise rates (always with some explanation that it is good for sellers!), and then more sellers leave, and the cycle keeps repeating. If this goes to its logical end, then they will eventually take 100% of the selling price, but they will only have one seller left! At eMoviePoster.com we haven't raised our fees in years, and we do all the work. It is little wonder we have over 710 consignors, including many of the most prominently dealers in the hobby (but we never disclose who our consignors are unless they do so themselves). Gather together any 10 dealers and I guarantee you a sizable percentage of them consign to us! Bruce On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Richard Halegua Comic Art < [email protected]> wrote: > when the crazy rule, insanity is the norm > > > > At 08:45 PM 3/31/2011, Phil Edwards wrote: > > Hard to imagine how these people are still in business. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 2:33 PM > Subject: [MOPO] eBay's new fee structure > > Well, I just found a link to eBay's new fee structure. It is true that they > will be charging a fee on postage. They are attempting to rationalise this > extraordinary greed by saying that the "New fees reward low shipping". > > http://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/news/feeupdate2011.html#faq > > I would be interested to hear what other sellers think about all of this. > Are there any benefits in maintaining an eBay store? > > > > JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA > Website: www.moviemem.com > PO Box 92 > Elanora > Qld 4221 > Australia > 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. > > -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 25 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site <http://www.emovieposter.com/> our auctions <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html> 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.
