eBay changes

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by SMPEP

The biggest change I see is that I no longer get free listing promotions.

Last year, every 3 weeks or so I'd get a special offer to listing 500 items for free. I used that offer every time they gave it to me and sold more items than my prior 8 years combined.

So what did they do in November? Stopped giving me free listing promotions.

Why? Who knows. (They claimed they did this for everyone when I asked - but I doubt that.)

So what did I do? Stopped listing more than the free 50 items per month.

Gee, Ebay ... you let me sell stuff and I do, and you get the commission. You make me pay to list items and you get nothing. Seems like a pretty simple concept to me. Apparently not to the geniuses that think they only want Battlefield, Probstein and PWCC as their sellers.

Oh well.

Cheers,
Patrick

I rarely sell on eBay but they never stopped sending me the 500 free listing offers. I have been getting them about every 3 weeks also, just had one a week ago.

[SMPEP]

Figured it was a BS response by them.

Thanks for letting me know.

Cheers,
Patrick

[slidekellyslide]

I have an anchor store subscription and it appears my fees will go up only .15%. They are giving me $150 per quarter in free packing supplies which is double what it was. Not sure I will be affected much at all...I take that back, I just now saw the change from 20% to 10% for Top Rated sellers. That's a load of crap.

[prestigecollectibles]

Not sure how many will be affected by this, but final value fees for sellers who do not meet eBay’s minimum performance standards will increase by 4 percentage points on items sold on or after May 1, 2017. To make sure you’re meeting eBay’s minimum selling requirements, follow our selling best practices and check your seller dashboard regularly.

[savedfrommyspokes]

These rate increases + discount reduction for TRS will cause me to give an added 1% of my total sales back to ebay in the from of FVF. In 2016, I cut my total ebay fees by 12% on slightly more sales than 2015 due to additional free listings offered for an anchor store subscription. These 2017 changes will cause me to give back half of those savings to ebay.

As with the ebay bucks changes, with all of the 8-10% promos (which fall during the week when many auctions end), I have earned more bucks at this point in the quarter than I have most other quarters when there were less frequent promos.

Hopefully these increases/discount reductions will be offset by more frequent free listings and this change will turn into a positive as has the changes in the ebay bucks program has for me this quarter.

[Jeffrompa]

I don't know if eBay is hurting but going from a 20 % discount to a 10% discount is going to hurt me

[ngnichols]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought these changes were absolutely ridiculous. Gives no incentive to be Top-Rated Plus vs. Top-Rated.

[SMPEP]

Ebay also eliminated any incentive to offer free shipping.

If you have to have 90% tracking to be Top Rated, who can offer free shipping anymore?

So basically, they just changed the minimum shipping charge to $2.67 per item.

Which basically eliminates someone buying a single (inexpensive) card.

So once again, Ebay screws the little seller (because they won't have the volume to have enough inventory to sell enough cards to make it worthwhile to a buying of inexpensive stuff).

So Ebay pushes more museum pieces and more big scale sellers. Guess they think that's good for their costs structure.

Cheers,
Patrick