Best Store Subscription For Me?

[egarchow89]

I guess I have dropped the ball a bit on keeping up with changes to ebay store offerings. It seems like a basic store offers more now than it did when I first signed up for a premium store a good while ago.

I have about 900 trading card BIN listings, and don't really sell anything else, and occasionally do large rounds of auctions where I put up 500 listings and $1 each, and around 475 or so sell.

It looks like these days (or maybe it has been like this since the beginning and I didn't notice), I don't really need a premium store, since I get 11,000 listings in trading cards with a basic, and my auctions almost all sell so I don't have to worry about final value fees. Is there anything I am missing?

Would appreciate some tips from some longtime eBayers who know a lot about stores!

[wildpitchsports]

As a former trading card seller and 20+ year seller who had many stores over the years, your idea about which store to select is correct!

Best of luck to you in that market - a correction is forthcoming for sure

[coastaltechsolution]

@wildpitchsports 

Correction! 

Sorry had to 😁

[wildpitchsports]

hahah it's early and I need coffee

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@coastaltechsolution wrote:

@wildpitchsports 

Correction! 

Sorry had to 😁

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[dhbookds]

They increased the amount of listings several yrs ago.........so you are correct a basic is probably fine for you......that said, if you are under a yearly contract, you may have to pay a penalty when you downgrade....I believe (not sure) it shows you that when you attempt to do the downgrade.....but I would check what you may owe before you confirm the downgrade..

[m60driver]

Sounds like a "Basic" store is tailor made for your situation with 1,000 free listings, but auctions go down to 250 per month so maybe start your auctions at $1.25 to cover any fees for auctions over 250 per month.

[egarchow89]

Thanks for the tips all!

Is it still the case that I don't pay any insertion fees (or rather, get a fee credit), for any auctions that actually sell? When I do the slews of auctions, easily 95% of them sell, so assuming I only pay insertion fees for the ones that don't sell (and I usually have the lower demand stuff listed first, which would fall under the 250 free, and it is disproportionately those early ones among the nonsellers). When I try to look up fees I usually end up at a page that has rows and rows of percentages for various categories, not what I am actually looking for. 🙂

It's a bummer that I have been paying for premium for years now when it outgrew me, but no time like the present. 🙂

[nobody*s_perfect]

"Insertion fee credits for auction-style items that sell

If you have a Basic, Premium, Anchor, or Enterprise eBay Store subscription, you'll receive an insertion fee credit if your auction-style listing sells."

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/fee-credits?id=4128

As mentioned above, if your store subscription is an annual commitment, rather than month-to-month, then there will be an "early termination fee" if you cancel or downgrade your subscription. The basic TOS page describes the policy and has a chart showing what that fee will be, based on the subscription level and the number of months remaining in the annual commitment.

http://pages.ebay.com/stores/subscriptionterms.html

[egarchow89]

Thanks! The fee currently is quite hefty to change, it looks like it would take 5 months to "make back" the cancellation fee in monthly savings, but as far as I can tell, I gain absolutely nothing by keeping the premium, especially since 99% of what I sell would be in a category I get 10k free listings in, and I cannot imagine I would ever break even 1500 listings.