2017 Spring Seller Update Reminder

[alan@ebay]

Hello,

Please use this thread if you have any questions or wish to discuss today's announcement. 

Thank you. 

[shanster69]

I wondered what happened to the promotional listings they use to offer! I miss them too!

[dexterdoggie]

Do what I did. Close your eBay store and stop worrying about it. I lost top rated seller rating when I went on vacation and was late shipping three items by a day. A DAY.

I've been selling on eBay since 2001. The "customer service" rep had the nerve to say: "Oh you just want the badge (no stupid. The discount). You know, you're running a business."

Really? I've been running a business for 47 years.

I thought about it for 24 hours and closed my eBay store That cost eBay $350 bucks a year. In addition I made a conscience decision to list anything of real value on alternative sites. The sleaziness didn't stop there. Within a day of closing the store eBay emailed me
Offering three month of free rent if I re-opened it.

The problem is, I'm not running my business, eBay is....And here's a flash, eBay's no longer the only game in town. After 15 years and being a TRS most of that time, I've earned a little respect.

So go ahead, close down your eBay store. If you're a small seller you just might save some money.

[ssheehan4]

We will be able to calculate shipping more accurately, but lose 10% right off the bat because ebay has to take their cut. I like to overstate my shipping to make up for ebay's hands in it.

[bruceb440]

I sell in the Collectibles catagory and have been a TRS since the program started.  I cannot use the $30 promotional credit.  What is eBay going to do for us sellers who cannot use this credit?  

[judybsa]

"The problem is that a 10% discount adds up to MORE fees than we are already paying"  .  No it doesn't.  Do your math.  Go back and figure your discount for the last 12 months.  then cut that number in half.  That's the number you are working with.  How much is that number for you?

[judybsa]

they are beta testing a version of the promoted listings program for one-offs.  We should have it soon.  Then you can use that credit.

[Anonymous]

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@bruceb440 wrote:

I sell in the Collectibles catagory and have been a TRS since the program started.  I cannot use the $30 promotional credit.  What is eBay going to do for us sellers who cannot use this credit?  

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Hi @bruceb440 - We're currently looking at ways to expand Promoted Listings to single quantity items or one of a kind listings. Be on the lookout for updates!

[plumloved-143]

These are not improvements, there is nothing good here except the $30 credit for promotions.  It's clear, you have no positive responses, only angry sellers (including me).  Reducing our discount and making it harder to achieve only makes us resent corporate eBay who doesn't appreciate the people who made them so rich.

If you really want to make an improvement on shipping you should allow sellers who don't profit from shipping to be rewarded by not charging the 9% fee on shipping (which TRS sellers do not get a discount on!).

If eBay can't do that.... then eBay needs to make an option for the seller add on 9% to the shipping to the buyer, as it's a variable we cannot possibly predict how much it will cost.

Thanks,

Juli

[shliza]

My sentiment exactly. I'm wrapping up my selling on eBay. It's insane for the small time seller who does it for a hobby.

[jzq2468]

The reduction of the top rated plus seller discount from 20% to 10% virtually eliminates the incentive for sellers to be top rated.

To maintain top rated status,  sellers must bend over backwards to please buyers and it will be no longer  worth it.  I will probably eliminate the RETURNS ACCEPTED

ang go with NO RETURNS and skip the piddling 10% discount.

[petgirl85]

Does anyone know which categories they are referring to when they say the following:

•Final value fees for Store subscriptions will increase in some selling categories.

I found this article to be very, very vague.

[oldsparkle55]

This is why we do more on Amazon now because ebay puts more on our plate each year to keep our discount  & now cuttint it in half.  Just let us bleed to death as a sellers!  Thanks eBay!!!!

[carlitoscorner]

Yes, we are all so excited to pay more to eBay, pay more for shipping, pay more for merchandise....
I think eBay has their 'Main'-Customers in Asia. Don't think, that eBay will up their fees....

[bob4676]

I've been an eBay seller for 2 decades. I'm hoping that eBay still sees us as partners, not merely as transitory customers. Every year seller's costs go up, and lately, the number of promotions, particularly listing promotions, go down.

If there are only dwindling profits to be had, how does eBay think that will be an incentive to grow our businesses??

I wouldn't mind the rates going up, if it was balanced out with increased free listings.

In fact, why charge for listings at all? It's the comissions and store fees that makes eBay the most money. If we sell more, everybody wins, and we all know that the more listings out there, the more sales that are generated.

I'd love to have an anchor store, but my sales won't allow it. Sales are not doing that great since the recession. Just as sales were going up, the promotions stopped.

Is eBay finished offering free listing promotions for good? Free listings encourage business growth. Other promotions are not all that useful really. Give me something real for my increased fees!!!

[Anonymous]

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@petgirl85 wrote:

Does anyone know which categories they are referring to when they say the following:

•Final value fees for Store subscriptions will increase in some selling categories.

I found this article to be very, very vague.

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Hi @petgirl85 - Any category that currently has a 4% final value fee rate with a store will not be affected by this update. All others will see the 0.15% increase. 

These categories are the ones that won't change: 
Select Computers/Tablets & Networking, Video Game Consoles, Heavy Equipment, Concession Trailers & Carts, Imaging & Aesthetics Equipment, and Commercial Printing Presses.