New eBay fees

[gshv]

eBay is changing fees again:

http://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/news/feeupdate2011.html

The fee stays the same for auctions, but it will be applied to item price AND shipping, and the maximum fee will be raised to $100. BIN will be free, though. So, if you have some rare MCS6501 or C4040 ES to sell, then sell it before the new rates go into effect, or you'll end up paying much more in the fees. Fixed price auctions will be cheaper if the final item price is more than 8 times more expensive than shipping.

Gennadiy

[Neon_WA]

ebay must have a huge team of goal-post movers of staff

[CPUShack]

will encourage cheaper shipping which is good.
Overall not terrible for easy to ship stuff.

[magictom]

For some of the less-expensive items, it clearly maximizes Ebay's profit:

Under the current system, many people would list inexpensive items for $0.99 (no listing fee), charge $5-10 for shipping, and then pay the final fees on $0.99 only (assuming that's the winning bid). So ebay's profit would be 10 cents or so.

Under the new system, there's still no listing charge, but the final fees will be substantially more, perhaps 50 cents to a dollar. And since there's a huge number of inexpensive items now on ebay, it really should improve their bottom line.

Interestingly, listing fees are much more "visible" to the sellers since they are upfront, while final fees easily get kind of "lost" in the process of transferring the balances to Paypal.

And, all they buyers really care about is the total price (winning bid + S&H), so it's a wash to them.

The bottom line: It clearly maximizes Ebay's profit, at the expense of the sellers. It's the only reason they constantly move the goal-posts.

[CPUShack]

And dont forget that third part checkouts are banned as of June I believe

Paypal or nothing (so eBay can make more fees)

[D.8080]

Intresting enough, in Italy they are reducing the fees and will implement other fancy things to gain back the lost ground from other competitors.

[Fossalta]

so ebay needs a rename to feebay ?

[wepwawet]

the fee is capped at $100.
my calculator resulted in $100 no matter how big the final price and shipping was.
So I think someone should WAIT until that takes effect.

Or am I wrong?

http://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/news/feecalculator.html#

[hugo929]

[gshv]

[Cpuswe]

Perhaps this will give Paypal some competition. http://www.dailytech.com/Visa+to+Battle+PayPal+in+Personal+Payments+Arena/article21153.htm

[gshv]