mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@bigdeals24-7 wrote:I’ve been selling on eBay for over 23 years. I’ve never seen it like this before, they keep changing things and making it worse not better. The whole promote it and boost your auction is a scam which hurts everyone that doesn’t use it. It should not even exist.
Changes on the site has nothing to do with this. But the price of gas and groceries sure do.
@bigdeals24-7 wrote:Only having a handful of “views” not bids or watchers “VIEWS” on a dozen or so auctions that are listed over and over has nothing to do with gas and grocery prices. The people that don’t go all in on the promoting your auction - boost your item are getting screwed.
It does if the buyers simply can't afford to purchase right now. It all takes money.
You chose to promote your listings or not to promote your listings. That is completely within your control.
Ebay reports these numbers to shareholders and the public for that matter every 90 days. The financial number for Ebay are not held secret. They can't, they are a publicly held corporation and therefore has to publish their financial statements every quarter.
Do you have any information / links you can provide that support the numbers you are quoting here. I for one would like to read more about them.
@plx.mid.y4rrly wrote:Our site experienced slowing sales this year as well. The result was a series of warnings from ebay advising that our account may be terminated. To prove they were serious they increased the fee % and tacked on a penalty %. It is difficult to believe the stock has generally performed well. Perhaps it is the ever increasing charges to sellers keeping them profitable?
The penalty fees only happen when your stats have reached the level where it is a problem per the Ebay rules. It isn't subjective, it is based on actual facts of a transaction.
If you got in trouble with defects on your Dashboard, then your penalty fee was 5%. If it was due to the Service Metrics, the penalty fee is 6%.
You should know what area you got in trouble in. It is important info you need to have in order to assist you in trying to work out of the penalty phase and get your account healthy again.
So what caused the problem for you? Are you still having penalty fees charged?
@plx.mid.y4rrly wrote:Sales volume. We have retired and are selling the remaining inventory from our wholesale golf distribution business. Items that sold well a year and more ago are experiencing very low sales. eBay is making more on some products than we do.
This isn't a new thing. Customers needs or desire change with time too. What was hot a year ago is no longer a hot item. Happens all the time in all kinds of categories.
I don't think your measurement should be how much you make verse Ebay. As long as you make money the who cares. Besides you have no idea of what Ebay's Cost of Sales is in the first place to enable you to figure out what they made. To assume they have no cost of sale would be completely wrong.
