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EBay is about to increase its seller fees to 10%

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Re: EBay is about to increase its seller fees to 10%

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Post by mateuszf »

Jsarokin wrote: post #10
anigbrowl wrote: post #2

If you were looking to dirupt eBay's business model, you couldn't pick a better time. While considering a price adjustment on a high-value item I'm selling, I went to their fee calculator to explore some other price points. I was mystified to see not only the fee I expected of ~$55, but a 'New Fee' of $123. Thinking I'd made a mistake, I explored further, and noticed that as of April 16, casual sellers who don't have…

Interesting to see this move by eBay - we've found that high fees for casual sellers is a huge pain point. By focusing their fee structure towards power-sellers they also happen to be alienating a large group of casual sellers. We're trying to solve this problem (among others) with our product SellSimple. Free app, free postings, and 5% if it sells. Check it out, would love to know what you think: http://sellsimple.c…

Do you handle Bitcoins? If not then I can imagine it could get you lot of attention.

Re: EBay is about to increase its seller fees to 10%

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Post by readme »

thenextcorner wrote: post #13

Headline is disturbingly inaccurate Don't you know that this is a simplification of the fees for casual sellers, where before, there were multiple tranches for listing an item, and if it sold successfully, you also paid a final value fee. The new fees represent a simpler and better to understand system, where the first 50 items per month for casual sellers are free to list, and easy to understand final value fee. Thi…

For someone who's only selling one thing every now and then it's a totally bad deal.

Re: EBay is about to increase its seller fees to 10%

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Post by pravda »

I don't think there could be a slimier company then Ebay. I wish Taobao would come to the US and crush Ebay like a Zhong Nan Hai cigarette butt.

"Ebay may be a shark in the ocean, but I am a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we lose — but if we fight in the river, we win." --Jack Ma.

Re: EBay is about to increase its seller fees to 10%

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Post by cynix »

Jsarokin wrote: post #10
anigbrowl wrote: post #2

If you were looking to dirupt eBay's business model, you couldn't pick a better time. While considering a price adjustment on a high-value item I'm selling, I went to their fee calculator to explore some other price points. I was mystified to see not only the fee I expected of ~$55, but a 'New Fee' of $123. Thinking I'd made a mistake, I explored further, and noticed that as of April 16, casual sellers who don't have…

Interesting to see this move by eBay - we've found that high fees for casual sellers is a huge pain point. By focusing their fee structure towards power-sellers they also happen to be alienating a large group of casual sellers. We're trying to solve this problem (among others) with our product SellSimple. Free app, free postings, and 5% if it sells. Check it out, would love to know what you think: http://sellsimple.c…

Not available in the Australian app store :(

Re: EBay is about to increase its seller fees to 10%

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Post by anigbrowl »

tempestn wrote: post #12

Here's a great comparison of the old and new fee structures: http://ebaystrategies.blogs.com/ebay_strategies/2013/03/part... While it does probably amount to an increase overall, there are certainly plenty of situations where the fees will be lower. And without doubt, they are now far simpler than before, which is important. Being able to quickly determine what it will cost to sell an item on eBay may well make casua…

It's OK if you have a store, but you are paying a monthly fee for the privilege and FVFs are close to what they are now. As an occasional seller who does maybe 5-10 moderately high value trades a year, it's a terrible deal - simplicity is not worth hundreds a year in additional fees, or an equally complicated 'store' that I have no wish to rent.

Re: EBay is about to increase its seller fees to 10%

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Post by zengr »

Wait, what? The title is completely misleading. It's not an absulute increase from 9% to 10%. The fee earlier for all the sellers was 9%, now for ebay store owners (which mind you is a lot) get rates like 4%, 6% etc based on what items they are selling.

So, ebay is actually giving great price to sellers who sell at scale (now they can open an ebay store, which is definitely a good deal!). They are just trying to promote the adoption of eBay Stores which helps their business and sellers! What's wrong with that?

When Mr. SellSimple reaches the scale at which eBay does their business, we will see how "good" they play and we start critizing them when they actually try to make money (4% cut won't help you in scaling the business).

For casual sellers (the guy who sells his iphone once in 2yrs): They will need to pay 1% extra, which is frankly not much. I sold my iphone4 after 2yrs for $240 + $6 shipping on eBay. I don't mind paying 1% extra.

Re: EBay is about to increase its seller fees to 10%

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Post by Jsarokin »

mateuszf wrote: post #21
Jsarokin wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting to see this move by eBay - we've found that high fees for casual sellers is a huge pain point. By focusing their fee structure towards power-sellers they also happen to be alienating a large group of casual sellers. We're trying to solve this problem (among others) with our product SellSimple. Free app, free postings, and 5% if it sells. Check it out, would love to know what you think: http://sellsimple.c…

Do you handle Bitcoins? If not then I can imagine it could get you lot of attention.

No Bitcoins yet - but it's definitely something I'm personally interested in and when the time is right would consider implementing. Still a bunch of un-tested use cases IMHO.

Right now we're using Balanced (awesome product - http://balancedpayments.com) to process payments & escrow funds.

Do you know of any API's that are similar to Balanced but for Bitcoins?

Re: EBay is about to increase its seller fees to 10%

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Post by Jsarokin »

cynix wrote: post #24
Jsarokin wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting to see this move by eBay - we've found that high fees for casual sellers is a huge pain point. By focusing their fee structure towards power-sellers they also happen to be alienating a large group of casual sellers. We're trying to solve this problem (among others) with our product SellSimple. Free app, free postings, and 5% if it sells. Check it out, would love to know what you think: http://sellsimple.c…

Not available in the Australian app store :(

Limited to US only for now - our main limitation is on the payment processing / bank account side. Once our processor (balanced) is ready for international payments we should be able to jump in pretty quickly (they're working hard on it now - hopefully its ready soon!)

Re: EBay is about to increase its seller fees to 10%

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Post by tempestn »

anigbrowl wrote: post #25
tempestn wrote: post #12

Here's a great comparison of the old and new fee structures: http://ebaystrategies.blogs.com/ebay_strategies/2013/03/part... While it does probably amount to an increase overall, there are certainly plenty of situations where the fees will be lower. And without doubt, they are now far simpler than before, which is important. Being able to quickly determine what it will cost to sell an item on eBay may well make casua…

It's OK if you have a store, but you are paying a monthly fee for the privilege and FVFs are close to what they are now. As an occasional seller who does maybe 5-10 moderately high value trades a year, it's a terrible deal - simplicity is not worth hundreds a year in additional fees, or an equally complicated 'store' that I have no wish to rent.

Agree with you there. Presumably eBay is looking for more volume of the smaller stuff, which would fit with the theme of strengthening competition with Amazon.

For the larger stuff, they don't have as strong a competitor (outside local options like craigslist), so they probably figure they can afford to boost their margins, and bundling it in with a 'simplification' and cuts elsewhere is a convenient time to do it.

Re: EBay is about to increase its seller fees to 10%

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Post by tempestn »

Jsarokin wrote: post #28
cynix wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not available in the Australian app store :(

Limited to US only for now - our main limitation is on the payment processing / bank account side. Once our processor (balanced) is ready for international payments we should be able to jump in pretty quickly (they're working hard on it now - hopefully its ready soon!)

You could get a quick start worldwide by accepting Bitcoin, then add alternate payment methods later.
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