07-15-2013 08:48 AM
07-15-2013 09:19 AM
I don't have a probl;em with e bay's FVF. Try selling on consignment through a Brick and mortor store and see how much they charge you. Try going through an auction house and see how much they charge you in TOTAL commissions.
In my previous life I was a District Manager for large retail companies. You would be surprised how much it takes to run a business. 10% is good for fees considering you are reaching millions of people daily.
Think about it........
07-15-2013 09:38 AM
07-15-2013 10:35 AM
Pay the $15/month for the store subscription. The fees go down, and on a $500 item, the amount saved might be more than enough to pay for the $15.
07-15-2013 12:49 PM
Try selling on the River. They take 15% + an additional flat fee ($1.35 for books).
I sell women's clothing and pay 9% FVF. It's a deal compared to my next best option for selling.
07-15-2013 03:51 PM
I so agree that 10% is too high for FVF. Hey, it's just not that! Now we pay fees on "shipping" and also on "Paypal" that eBay cleverly bought out for the monopoly of the game. Geeze. This latest hike on FVF to 10% is outrageous considering all the other fees involved. WHY do we get charged on shipping fees? We have to pay Post Office fees to get the item to the buyer, why to eBay now? I never charge service charges over and above postage, but have grown to resent having to pay fees twice on postage!
Also.....who came up with this 30% over starting price, for a Buy-It-Now fee???? WHAT??? 30 percent??? I sell my items close to cost or retail. Hardly ever making much, just getting the items out of my house! BIN fees are for the advantage of the "BUYER" and eBAY. The Buyer gets the item faster.....eBay gets their fees faster.....so who's making out here? Not me! People are not going to buy items priced at 30% over to get the item. Geeze eBay - wake up!!! So BIN is not worth the effort! It was 10%, over the listing price, which was reasonable, but NOT 30%.! Outrageous!
There. I had my vent. Heat does strange things mentally!
07-15-2013 04:17 PM
07-15-2013 04:20 PM
07-15-2013 04:45 PM
07-15-2013 04:52 PM
Saw this answer on another board regarding the 30% BIN - interesting!
07-15-2013 01:26 PM
It would appear that the problem with the previous 10% margin was that too many auctions with BIN were ending with the BIN price instead of garnering bids and running up higher sales price.
By plan, then, 30% margin should get a greater number of opening bids, thus removing teh BIN option, and hopefully for all parties scoring a final price higher than your BIN.
But, like said, nobody forces you to use BIN on an auction and if it does not work try something else.
07-15-2013 05:28 PM
07-15-2013 09:44 PM
10% is cheap, comparatively.
When I ran B&M stores, I paid upwards of 22-25% each week, just for labor costs. To say nothing of inventory, overhead, insurance, taxes, payment processing, etc., etc.
I currently pay about 17% per sale for both eBay and PayPal fees, leaving an 83% margin.
If you can't make money on an 80%+ margin, you're doing something wrong.
07-16-2013 01:47 AM
Yeah, Yeah...
Here is where everyone sucks-up to evilBay.
When I first started selling back in 2007... FVF's were 3% for auctions, 10% for Fixed Price.
(There is one reason why there were more auctions back then)
Like I have said... Let's go back to the old Fees.
Charge for ALL listings... and only charge 3% FVF for auctions, 10% for Fixed Price.
07-16-2013 02:05 AM
@adf07bid wrote:
imo years ago it would have worked out that way, but now? i dont know. I personally have not seen much bidding on auctions. maybe its just me tho...
In the ole daze
unless you clicked the search button for Buy It Now listings
all you would see were Auctions and Auctions-with-BIN.
Store listing that were totally fixed price were separate.
That was because back then eBay was a Auction site.
Now I don't know what it is...
But if you search hard enough, you can still find good stuff.
First... Always click Used in your search.
07-21-2013 12:14 PM
The reason for the fees on the shipping are because when we had free listing fees on items that were $.99 and lower, sellers were jacking up their shipping to avoid the listing fees. There are always a few bad apples in every crowd and now everybody pays.
I do believe the 30% for the BIN is extremely high, but ebay has to make up for the 50 free listings a month some how. It does hurt sales, I know. Send a suggestion to ebay. I do. If more people would do this, maybe things would change. The forums can't do it.