Comments on: eBay fees going up at month's end

Days after posting record earnings and sales, the auctioneer says it is raising fees. Plus: A popular free feature will soon carry a price tag.

Ebay and its rising fees

Ok...I personally think e-bay is getting greedy. A small rise in fees is somewhat acceptible but it seems that they are just doubling the cost of listing things. Since ebay also owns paypal....the buyer/seller team is also getting hit twice. Once for the seller fees, which I'm sure one way or another gets passed on to the buyer (ie higher price) and twice with paypal fees. 2.5% + .30 (if you have a prem/business account and is the chosen method of payment). Pretty soon the ebay greedy monster will raise the fees for paypal as well.

T. Green

Ebay and its rising fees

Ok...I personally think e-bay is getting greedy. A small rise in fees is somewhat acceptible but it seems that they are just doubling the cost of listing things. Since ebay also owns paypal....the buyer/seller team is also getting hit twice. Once for the seller fees, which I'm sure one way or another gets passed on to the buyer (ie higher price) and twice with paypal fees. 2.5% + .30 (if you have a prem/business account and is the chosen method of payment). Pretty soon the ebay greedy monster will raise the fees for paypal as well.

T. Green

Ebay fee increases are ridiculous

The news media reports I have seen don't show the whole story.
Ebay is not just increasing fees by 60%. Some feels will now cost sellers as much as 500% of what they used to. For example, "buy it now" used to be a flat 5 cents. Now, for an item over $50 the fee is 5 times that, 25 cents. That is a 500% increase.
Final value fees are going up at about 70%. For example, the final value fees on a $100 sale under the old schedule would be $3.37 but under the new fees it will cost the seller $5.75 which is just about a 70% jump.
To keep an "ebay store" has been a flat $9.95 fee but that will go up by 60% to $15.95. The saddest part of that is the items in the eBay store do not show up when a buyer searches eBay.
It is all just a big fat ripoff by a company that you can't even reach by phone to discuss a problem. Ebay is fat and sassy and GREEDY.
My Mother is 80 years old and sells indian-made jewelry on eBay. Has been since 1999. But she's on a fixed income and I figure she'll have to tell eBay where they can stick it.

Ebay fee increases are ridiculous

The news media reports I have seen don't show the whole story.
Ebay is not just increasing fees by 60%. Some feels will now cost sellers as much as 500% of what they used to. For example, "buy it now" used to be a flat 5 cents. Now, for an item over $50 the fee is 5 times that, 25 cents. That is a 500% increase.
Final value fees are going up at about 70%. For example, the final value fees on a $100 sale under the old schedule would be $3.37 but under the new fees it will cost the seller $5.75 which is just about a 70% jump.
To keep an "ebay store" has been a flat $9.95 fee but that will go up by 60% to $15.95. The saddest part of that is the items in the eBay store do not show up when a buyer searches eBay.
It is all just a big fat ripoff by a company that you can't even reach by phone to discuss a problem. Ebay is fat and sassy and GREEDY.
My Mother is 80 years old and sells indian-made jewelry on eBay. Has been since 1999. But she's on a fixed income and I figure she'll have to tell eBay where they can stick it.

The Writer didn't do his research

Maybe Troy should have done some research before writing this article. The fees in this article are incorrect. They are not the old or new fee structure that Ebay has posted. The advantage of Ebay to the "little guy" was that they had somewhere to go and sell their product for a reasonable fee. The new fee structure will put the "little guy" out of business because in the long run "he" will do better with garage sales.

The Writer didn't do his research

Maybe Troy should have done some research before writing this article. The fees in this article are incorrect. They are not the old or new fee structure that Ebay has posted. The advantage of Ebay to the "little guy" was that they had somewhere to go and sell their product for a reasonable fee. The new fee structure will put the "little guy" out of business because in the long run "he" will do better with garage sales.

ebay fees and how to show we don't like it!

After the 18 we are eliminating the gallery image.
We are also eliminating the buy it know and place a link on the ad to send the viewer to the store.
We pay eBay around 2000 a month for listing and selling fees.

If one million sellers do not use for one month the Gallery and the sellers list and average of 1000 items! that means ebay is going to loose 350 Million dollars per month.

Remember Everything is numbers 1000 items X 0.35 = $350.00 per seller so 100000 sellers X$350.00 =$35,000,000 Dollars X 12 that is 420 Million dollars a year and that is only 100000 sellers!

I am doing my part I won't do gallery anymore.

If they see a drop in their buttom line$$$$$$ perhaps they will reconsider.
Jay

ebay fees and how to show we don't like it!

After the 18 we are eliminating the gallery image.
We are also eliminating the buy it know and place a link on the ad to send the viewer to the store.
We pay eBay around 2000 a month for listing and selling fees.

If one million sellers do not use for one month the Gallery and the sellers list and average of 1000 items! that means ebay is going to loose 350 Million dollars per month.

Remember Everything is numbers 1000 items X 0.35 = $350.00 per seller so 100000 sellers X$350.00 =$35,000,000 Dollars X 12 that is 420 Million dollars a year and that is only 100000 sellers!

I am doing my part I won't do gallery anymore.

If they see a drop in their buttom line$$$$$$ perhaps they will reconsider.
Jay

Ebay Fees

Not only was the reporter mistaken on several points concerning this article he also left out the fact that several of the Executives in this company have sold stock in the last few months. Ebay is notorious for raising fees, that do it at least yearly, but never to this degree. With the executives selling stock and the extreme increases makes one wonder if there is'nt more to this than what is being told.

I've heard and read so many Ebay sellers say that they don't agree with the increases but will stay anyway because there just is no other auction sites out there that compare with Ebay, and there isn't and will never be until there are as many sellers on another site offering as many different things as there is on Ebay now. It is the sellers that are making Ebay. There wouldn't be near the buyers there if they didn't know that no matter what they searched for they will find at least one if not hundreds, it's not the same on the other sites so the buyers go to Ebay. But if the sellers moved to a different site in huge numbers the buyers would move along with them! It's as simple as that.

As long as the majority of the sellers continue to shrug their shoulders and go on letting Ebay reap the profits of their hard work while they struggle to make a profit at all, Ebay will continue to raise fees and add new ones. That is until the buyers realize that they can get their items cheaper at different sites because the fees are cheaper and start looking around and finding the hundreds of other sites that charge so much less that Ebay. Wake up people!

Ebay Fees

Not only was the reporter mistaken on several points concerning this article he also left out the fact that several of the Executives in this company have sold stock in the last few months. Ebay is notorious for raising fees, that do it at least yearly, but never to this degree. With the executives selling stock and the extreme increases makes one wonder if there is'nt more to this than what is being told.

I've heard and read so many Ebay sellers say that they don't agree with the increases but will stay anyway because there just is no other auction sites out there that compare with Ebay, and there isn't and will never be until there are as many sellers on another site offering as many different things as there is on Ebay now. It is the sellers that are making Ebay. There wouldn't be near the buyers there if they didn't know that no matter what they searched for they will find at least one if not hundreds, it's not the same on the other sites so the buyers go to Ebay. But if the sellers moved to a different site in huge numbers the buyers would move along with them! It's as simple as that.

As long as the majority of the sellers continue to shrug their shoulders and go on letting Ebay reap the profits of their hard work while they struggle to make a profit at all, Ebay will continue to raise fees and add new ones. That is until the buyers realize that they can get their items cheaper at different sites because the fees are cheaper and start looking around and finding the hundreds of other sites that charge so much less that Ebay. Wake up people!

EBAY PRICE GOUGING AND UNETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES

I HAVE A FEW CONCERNS ABOUT EBAY'S ETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES, INCLUDING PRICE GOUGING, DISCRIMINATING CENSORSHIP, AND USE OF INTIMIDATION TACTICS. NOW, ALL OF THESE THINGS MAY BE LEGAL, BUT THEY ARE UNETHICAL IN THE WORLD OF BUSINESS AND THEY NEED TO STOP! EBAY ROUTINELY CLEAN SWEEPS IT'S DISCUSSION BOARDS AND THEN CALLS THOSE PEOPLE WHOSE COMMENTS THEY DELETED, AT ALL HOURS OF THE DAY AND NIGHT. THEY THREATEN TO TERMINATE SELLER'S ACCOUNTS IF SELLER'S DON'T ADHERE TO THEIR RULES, MANY OF WHICH ARE A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION AND GUESS WHO GETS TO INTERPRET THEM?? NOT THE SELLER!! EBAY IS BITING THE COLLECTIVE HAND THAT FEEDS IT. I REMEMBER ASKING, JUST A FEW YEARS AGO, WHO IS EBAY? I CAN INVISION ASKING, A FEW YEARS FROM NOW, REMEMBER THAT AUCTION SITE CALLED EBAY?

EBAY PRICE GOUGING AND UNETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES

I HAVE A FEW CONCERNS ABOUT EBAY'S ETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES, INCLUDING PRICE GOUGING, DISCRIMINATING CENSORSHIP, AND USE OF INTIMIDATION TACTICS. NOW, ALL OF THESE THINGS MAY BE LEGAL, BUT THEY ARE UNETHICAL IN THE WORLD OF BUSINESS AND THEY NEED TO STOP! EBAY ROUTINELY CLEAN SWEEPS IT'S DISCUSSION BOARDS AND THEN CALLS THOSE PEOPLE WHOSE COMMENTS THEY DELETED, AT ALL HOURS OF THE DAY AND NIGHT. THEY THREATEN TO TERMINATE SELLER'S ACCOUNTS IF SELLER'S DON'T ADHERE TO THEIR RULES, MANY OF WHICH ARE A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION AND GUESS WHO GETS TO INTERPRET THEM?? NOT THE SELLER!! EBAY IS BITING THE COLLECTIVE HAND THAT FEEDS IT. I REMEMBER ASKING, JUST A FEW YEARS AGO, WHO IS EBAY? I CAN INVISION ASKING, A FEW YEARS FROM NOW, REMEMBER THAT AUCTION SITE CALLED EBAY?

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Yes the fee's have gotten to be too much as the sellers are paying for Skype. When a CEO leaves it goes in the toilet for a reason. The CEO made a big mistake and they just needed to flush her down the toilet. And the new guy is just going to **** on anything that is left. Google will be the next company to take over the Ebay market and pound them back down. The no galley picture idea sound good but how would it affect your sales? Thanks you can see my Ebay store at www.primeonly27.com