I start almost all my items at $9.95 and it has always worked for me and I have a very good sell through rate. The whole starting something under a buck and hoping I get 6 bids just to push it up to $9.95 to save 35 cents in listing fees seems pretty self defeating and risky to me.
Either way, 9% is 9%.
I suppose I can purchase a store which I've never had a need for because I already have a website that doesn't charge me a separate fee every month for every single item I have in it.
That will probably save some money, but I will have to pay the store fee every month despite not using it, and the rates are still higher then they are right now..........and right now, the rates are much higher then they were just a year ago.
These aren't cost of living increases. They are taking a percentage of our sales which should not be influenced by cost of living, inflation or anything else.
These constant bumps in percentages while touting "well we haven't raised your rates in a year" is ridiculous. This isn't the Post Office. A constant raising of percentage fees indicates someday hypothetically they will be taking 100% of all you sell and then charging you for insertion rates and demanding you ship everything for free..............and pay to insure everything out of your own pocket.
Of course I've gone to the extreme but that's the logic.
I also don't understand this fascination with lowering your up front costs while raising final value fees. I keep running across people who love this. "It keeps my listing costs down in case my item doesn't sell".
That's ridiculous! I actually prefer to sell my stuff and don't understand constantly getting penalized for doing so.
My rant for today I guess.
Just a little discouraged at all of this.
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01-28-2010, 10:37 AM
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