Is my own success my own worst enemy?

[richard1rst]

I am an anchor store and a TRS+ seller. As such I pay 9.15% FVF and I get an extra 3% discount on shipping.

If, as all corporations are expected to do, eBay seeks to maximize their profits, then, through their search algorithms,  directing a sale to a non-store seller paying 10% or, better yet, an under FVF penalty paying 14-15% FVF makes them more money than if I make the sale and, as a bonus, they do not give up the extra shipping discount..

Admittedly on one sale it will not make a bit of difference, but on thousands and thousands of sales then, as Tip O’Neill once famously said, pretty soon you’re talking about some real money.

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Everybody seems to have an unprovable conspiracy theory, I thought I would throw one more on the pile.

(I’ll leave it up to your mindset to decide if I am being serious or not)

[richard1rst]

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@a_c_green wrote:

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@richard1rst wrote:

Admittedly on one sale it will not make a bit of difference, but on thousands and thousands of sales then, as Tip O’Neill once famously said, pretty soon you’re talking about some real money.

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Perhaps you're thinking of what Sen. Everett Dirksen is credited with saying? "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money." There's some debate over whether he said it exactly like that, but it's a good line anyway. 

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Dirksen 

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You are correct that/he is what I had in mind. Got the name wrong. Although in all fairness over time, with only an occasional rare exception, they all tend to merge into one amorphous parroting blob.

[whatmorefabric]

What you pay for your anchor store probably more than makes up for the casual sellers extra fees.    Ebay wants the consistent revenue stream of store fees.   They aren't shootin' that pooch.