Ebay Jumps its prices.

[Figgy]

Can you believe it? Ebay isn't just raising its prices in one area but just about all of them. The two biggest is that now it will cost $.35 to list instead of $.25 (no big deal right) and they are going to take 8% instead of their 5._% they were taking before. I guess since they are the biggest game in town they can do it but ouch...

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[~Kathie]

The 35¢ increase is for the GALLERY option.......up from 25¢.

Basic listing insertion fees remain the same.

 

[Luv2Roam]

I rarely used them before as I always thought the only ones getting rich from Ebay was Ebay execs.

 

[BeautyLLM]

They are raising their fee by almost 50% ?

 

[Eeyore's Pal]

Some of the fees are increasing 50%, some 65%, 82% and even 100%.

Basically, no matter how you sell on eBay, they hit you this time, and hit you hard.

I just recently opened an eBay store (No, not pins!), and the increase to store fees is unbelievable:
Final value fees increase from %5.25% to 8% and more, depending on the bid price.
Monthly store basic subscription went from $9.95 to $16.95!

But the natives are very restless. There is a petition site with over 2,000 signatures -- almost all clothing sellers!

There is another group organizing a listing boycott for January 18th.

In the end, I doubt it will matter. eBay is just shy of being a monopoly. The other sites can barely be called competitive: Yahoo, Bidville, Overstock, etc. I've seem lots of hype about a couple new sites, but who would want to go where the customers can't find you?

 

[flyinglizard]

ALL of these increases are in the context of consistent RECORD quarterly profits for eBay!

My personal observation is that I am not getting as many bidders as I used to...

Very recently I noticed a sharp increase in non-paying bidders... Got another one now!

Why does eBay keep changing things and making everything more complicated WITHOUT really improving the site?

Sooner or later a competitor will emerge

 

[Fortuosity]

I can believe it. I can also believe that I'll be bidding less and less.