posted on February 16, 2001 11:04:04 PM
Ebay Fees are getting Ridiculously like my PG&E bills
I know ebay provides a great service, but they are getting very expensive. I have been selling on ebay almost 2 years and have noticed I am paying a lot more for fewer sales. Am I the only one who is having this experience or are there millions of others having the same experience. The average fee being charge to me on a reserve auction is $4.50. The average fee I use to pay ebay per month was $400- $500 per. Compared with the same volume of items I am placing my new Fee for the last 2 months has been $700+. This must be having a negative effect on their listings. Has Auction Watch done any research and are there other services that will become more cost effective for dealers over the next year or two. Normally when one company starts to get too expensive this gives the opportunity for new companies to start stealing the ebay market. This is just a sharing thought!
posted on February 17, 2001 06:03:31 AM
I know what you mean. Unfortunately, EBAY can tie its customers (sellers) to a tree and bash them with a shovel, but the addiction hasn't gone away. People have been trying Bidville and EPIER as of late. I like Epier's set up better. I have plans to list around 3000 auctions on Epier to organize inventory. Most of my inventory is listed there with some items being moved over to EBAY upon demand. Bottom line... FEES are to hi at GREEDbay. Your not the only one who's bottom line is bottoming out.
posted on February 17, 2001 06:59:31 AM
The fees are getting a little to steep, you can only raise shipping and handling fees so much to cover for this and remain competive with regular mail order, retail and flea markets. I'd like to see some serious competion to E-bay from a company with deep pockets. Can you imagine what Wal-mart or Target could do if they got into the on-line auction business!!!I hope Yahoo bounces back but it doesn't seem promising, Amazon seems to be dying little by little, the fees seem to be more outrageous.
