mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@valley*valley wrote:I could live with that as well. However, some of us small item/ time " " sellers struggle with hovering around 12%... May as well valet everything and call a quits...
That is a rash reaction to losing half of the TRS+ discount. It is a bad business plan to depend on any type of discount to make a profit on anything you sell. Discounts have never been guaranteed nor should they be used with calculating your product price and/or profit. If you are doing this, you are long overdue to restructure how you figure out your pricing.
For small sellers such as yourself, what you will be losing in the TRS+ discount is minimal unless you have taken the bonus into account with your current pricing. Time reprice your inventory.
For small sellers, the loss of half this discount will cost you about $6.15 per $1000 worth of sales if you have a store. This can vary a little depending on the specifics of your account. Store or no store, categories being used, etc. But for ease I'll use this example. This means that for every $5 you have in your selling price you need to increase it by a three cents to recover the loss of part of the current TRS+ discount.
This loss of discount is more costly to a larger sellers by far than a small seller. But for us regular small sellers, it just isn't that costly. We should be able to overcome this. But if the loss of $6 or $7 dollars is that devastating for any seller, then they need to re-evaluate what they are selling or giving away because what they are selling stuff for is too low. People hate change, that is natural. But it is important to really understand the impact of any given policy on you as a seller, run the numbers and then make an informed decision on what your next step should be. There is no right or wrong answer. Just make sure you really understated the issue at hand and then do what is best for you and your little business.
@valley*valley wrote:So, in essence eBay's goal is to get the small seller store's to close down [and hopefully stay, just without a subscription...]. Which will only bring about more seller's abusing multiple accounts. Guarantee. [Don't shoot the messenger! I only have one account honest!].
What has Ebay said in this Update that suggest that Ebay is encouraging sellers to close their stores? What change supports this? Are you saying that the FVF rate increase causes this reaction?
Yes if you are upset by the 0.15 % increase in FVF has upset many. But if you close your store for this certainly you won't have to pay that 6.15% fee increase, instead you will pay 10% FVF. Per $1000 of sales you can either pay 61.50 in FVFs or without a store $100 in FVFs. So you'd pay the additional $38.50 in FVFs because you no longer wanted the store for whatever reason you have, but you won't be saving any money, it will come at a cost. Where is the benefit to doing this? What benefit is there to living out your subscription and then change to a month to month agreement? How does this benefit anyone IF what you are saying is about the impact a store owner?
Having multiple account is not an "abuse" of the system. Sometimes sellers don't want to use their selling account as their buying account too. Some have an ID they strictly us as a posting ID. Others have multiple selling accounts because they want to structure their business to have certain products they sell under one account and then other types of things under another account. There is nothing wrong with that as long as they comply with the rules.
I'm not trying to "shoot the messenger". I'm trying to inform the messenger. Now I certainly may have missed something in the Seller Update and maybe there is something in the update that does directly leads a seller to think that closing a store or modifying their subscription is the right move. Please take a moment and explain what is in the update that leads you to this conclusion.
