For a long time now eBay has been increasing selling fees, it just went up again. Now it's about 14percent. There are many sellers that have stopped selling on eBay. When the buyers want a great deal, and Ebay wants to take a high percent of sellers income, there is a very good chance Ebay could go under. I am a seller and a buyer. As a seller i need to make a profit, in order for me to make a profit now, i have to increase my prices, because im not selling for the fun of it, it is a business to make money. When it gets to a point when you sell something about 300.00 and you have invested 200 into it, then Ebay takes 60.00 and you only make 40.00 there is something very wrong with this. I know many sellers who stopped selling because they can't survive when most of your profits eBay keeps for themselves, and you don't get enough for the time and energy you spend selling these items. For an example, Ebay adds the seller's tax onto the item your selling, i actually think this is illegal. Then once your item price is at its highest then they take out there 14percent out of the price you sold it for, so i get more taken from me and then eBay gets more money for themselves. I think the IRS should get involved and know what eBay is doing. But when the sellers stop selling their items, then there will be less buyers. Pretty soon eBay will be losing money because of the greed and that is how a lot of corporations go under. Seem to me like eBay gives the breaks to buyers, and Ebay gets their money, but what are they doing for sellers? Every chance they get they try to screw us. without the sellers there are no buyers, and without all of us eBay doesn't get anything, and they will go under eventually it's just a matter of time, we are headed for a big recession. And greed is behind it all. One other thing is the recycling fees eBay took from the buyers. They know know they applied them wrong, and they owe a lot of people money. And they aren't giving that money back without you complaining to them, if you don't complain you won't get a dime, and that is what Ebay is hoping. Because they don't have the ethics to give it back even when they were wrong, I'm just wondering what other people on Ebay think about these practices of eBay's. 
an-57470
·3 years agoThat is how its always been on eBay.
All innovations were created by other people. Pictures in listings, scheduled listings, eBay's own API, listing software, electronic forms of payment and others were all created by other people - not eBay. eBay was even found guilty of stealing early online auction patents - they didn't invent them.
Meg Whitman stole ideas form others or bought the company that invented them. When she went to HP old timer eBays knew it would be a disaster as there she would not be able to steal other people's ideas.
The entire purpose of eBay management is to meet short term sales goals at any cost so they get their bonuses and leave the company a millionaire. They could care less about the long term health of the company, its sellers or its buyers.
eBay has lost millions of users. Millions of additional accounts are duplicate accounts owned by the same person for buying, selling and posting. Millions of accounts are dormant. As a result eBay has turned more and more to getting revenue from dishonest business practices designed to scam buyer and seller alike, including FVF on shipping, promoting free shipping, hiding listings, promoted listings, hiding shipping options, selling private insurance, misusing a 1969 Universal Postal Union agreement designed to help poor to instead line their own pocket and so on and so on.
Shopify has taken over the #2 spot behind Amazon, moving eBay down to #3.
eBay stock is one long Ponzi scheme.
retro_entertainment_collectibles
·3 years agoNo... Shopify is shopping cart application that has API abilities towards mirroring on a variety of web platforms. Walmart and Amazon are top the litter... Undisputed and Walmart is one of the entities getting ever so aggressive vowing this year to open their platform to even more liquidator, manufacturer and distributorships. Shopify has made money by widespread sales of the platform to be sure, what's funny is can do a whole whole whole lot more as a website goes with Wordpress and free software whereby one's "own store" stands a far far far better chance of long term survival.
eBay's fee's are so much cheaper than retail it's literally night and day, a small 600 SQ Foot storefront nine years ago cost us $1400 a mo. plus utilities and it wasn't exactly the ritz not mention costs of floor fixtures, card processing, card processing equipment and then some like winter plowing.
Amazon sellers are upset as they snarf nearly 50% of many sales, Walmart is emerging as the champion as ship to store costs nothing, Walmart does much of their own freighting. As they've done in retail eating most anything care compete they've their eyes on the web now.
eBay hasn't been atop the eCommerce mountain in a long time nor can they really be compared to Amazon or Walmart which are both retailers yielding significant market advantage in doing so. If one looks at it the proper way, eBay is still #1 when eliminating Walmart and Amazon as retailers. Shopify is only the success it is due to to third party points of sale where they sell shopping cart/connectivity services which again is rather funny... They prevail and grown because sellers dont want learn or really manage their own shop site. Wrodpress and Woo Shopping Cart are by far the most used and arguably mated with Wordpress the best shopping cart application/website creator on the Internet. Wordpress itself powers 60% of the entire worlds content managed websites.
Personally not a big fan of wordpress but I've built over the years 14 commerce sites for people of which when they took the effort learn, nine of them succeeded far beyond what they expected at cost far far far less than crippled applications like Shopify.
downunder-61
·3 years agohttps://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Final-Value-Fees-Increase/m-p/32755562#M1956520