posted on April 28, 2008 05:24:49 PM new
Has anyone taken this new survey? It looks to me like we can see some major changes in the way we pay for stores.
posted on April 28, 2008 06:13:27 PM new
Yes, I took the survey this afternoon. It sounded like fees will increase, the offset will be the duration as the listings will go till the cows come home.
posted on April 28, 2008 07:13:12 PM new
It seems to me that for basic stores, they are going to try to get 10 cent listings - I guess that comes with more eyeballs in search, but I don't know. I do have a middle level store, and that looks like they want 5 cents a listing. The FVF would go down. 12% and 3 cents per listing is too much to be paying ebay IMO - considering just a couple of years ago when I first started going big with the store, I was paying 5.25% and 2 cents per listing.
I won't complain too loudly, I've done a soft launch of my own internet store outside of ebay or amazon, and have already done pretty well - My regular ebay customers so far seem to be following me there, and hopefully more and more will too. Even if they leave the stores alone (doubtful) my presence on ebay will be reduced further by the end of the year.
posted on May 1, 2008 12:16:17 PM new
I received it too. It did appear that they putting feelers out to see how much they could raise the rates in the stores.
Funny thing is when I stated that I wouldn't have a store with those rates, they had the nerve to ask me why.
My guess is they aren't going to get many favorable responses back.
