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paradise-cds-and-cards · ‎02-04-2023

So you PAY for 250 listings, and these are NOT in addition to your free 250 that you get for not having a store. Also, Feebay charges you for scheduling listings and for having a buy it now price.

So, you pay for what you already get for free AND it's a worse product than the free one. I got suckered into this for a month thinking that they would be additional listings. To make things worse, even after cancelling your store, you are stuck being ripped off until the end of the 30 days.

This is truly one of the worst thought through scams in corporate history.

pargran3 · ‎02-04-2023

Curious. How much is the fvf on sports cards if you don't have a store?

albertabrightalberta · ‎02-04-2023

@caldreamer wrote:
Benefit in having a store is when a customer views "one of your items" they can click on VIEW STORE and see all your items (which should increase your sales).

As someone who doesn't have a store, please explain to me how this is a benefit. Because if a customer clicks on one of my (non-store) items, they can click on "see other items" and see the same thing.

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sextons-sweet-deals · ‎02-04-2023

Having a store at some level should be based on how many items you have active / available for sale. You have to do your own calculations and decide what fits / benefits you the best.

Scheduling a listing start time and promoting a listing does cost extra.

I don't go in and review everything eBay keeps changing. I rather spend my time listing and covering my bills, but if I recall, if you don't have a store account and your listing 250 per month at .30 per listing, that should come out to $75.00 per month at minimum.

I would think your saving $$$ overall.

pargran3 · ‎02-04-2023

Are you sure. Must have missed that somewhere along the line because it was a charge for long before I got a store, but it has been awhile. Sorry if my information was out of date. Only time I have ever used that would be to schedule a listing and then boot it live before the scheduled time. No charge.

nobody*s_perfect · ‎02-04-2023

@sextons-sweet-deals wrote: ...
Scheduling a listing start time and promoting a listing does cost extra.

... if I recall, if you don't have a store account and your listing 250 per month at .30 per listing, that should come out to $75.00 per month at minimum....

If you don't have a Store, you get 250 free insertions per month; after you use those up, the fee is 35 cents.

Scheduling a start time is free for sellers who don't have a Store. According to the recent seller update, this fee will soon be removed for sellers with Store.

toomuchstuffagain35 · ‎02-04-2023

Oh yeah. Store sellers have been ~~whin~~ complaining about that for years.

But then it's more useful for auctions than FP.

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monroe67 · ‎02-04-2023

"So you PAY for 250 listings, and these are NOT in addition to your free 250 that you get for not having a store. . . . Feebay charges you for scheduling listings . . . . I got suckered into this for a month . . . . being ripped off until the end of the 30 days. This is truly one of the worst thought through scams in corporate history."

I would say there are worse scams in the corporate history of the USA than eBay's "Starter Stores." I think there's an old man named Bernie who's still in prison for one of them . . . . . . .

A long long time ago I (as my selling ID) started selling stuff on eBay. I read the info on eBay stores and decided, "Well, that's not for me. I don't think I would ever have 250 items to sell at the same time. Even if I did, I wouldn't want to. I can't imagine the pressure of everything involved with trying to sell and hopefully actually selling that much stuff."

All quietly and calmly, without outrage or blaming eBay for suckering [me] in and ripping me off in a vicious scam.

nobody*s_perfect · ‎02-04-2023

To be fair, the OP stated that it's the biggest ripoff on eBay.

Madoff died two years ago.

ittybitnot · ‎02-04-2023

they can click on VIEW STORE and see all your items

@caldreamer

A buyer can click on "see other items" and get the same results. At least on a computer, there is a category filter on the left of the page as well, even if the seller has no store.

pargran3 · ‎02-04-2023

Well, once upon a time there was no such thing as a free insertion listing even with a store. And it varied with the starting price or buy it now price.

What it came down to then and comes down to now is know what you are doing. Know what the costs are and do whatever works best for you.

You can only be ripped off if you do not do your homework. A simple calculator and looking at the fees for this and that would be easy peasy. Nothing is hidden. Nobody is forced to do a darn thing.

chapeau-noir · ‎02-04-2023

@paradise-cds-and-cards wrote:
So you PAY for 250 listings, and these are NOT in addition to your free 250 that you get for not having a store. Also, Feebay charges you for scheduling listings and for having a buy it now price.

So, you pay for what you already get for free AND it's a worse product than the free one. I got suckered into this for a month thinking that they would be additional listings. To make things worse, even after cancelling your store, you are stuck being ripped off until the end of the 30 days.

This is truly one of the worst thought through scams in corporate history.

I can think of a few worse 'scams' in corporate history than a $5/month utility.

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sapphire_studio · ‎02-04-2023

I don't know it's only $4.95. That is not that much. You got a storefront and you also get a URL to your storefront. Plus you get access to the promotions manager to run different promotions that you can't without a store.

Seems like you're putting yourself through a lot of emotional distress over less than $5 especially considering you only signed up for one month.

It was kind of weird they were only charging store owners for scheduled listings but at least that's being done away with.

yuzuha · ‎02-04-2023

@sextons-sweet-deals wrote:
I don't go in and review everything eBay keeps changing. I rather spend my time listing and covering my bills, but if I recall, if you don't have a store account and your listing 250 per month at .30 per listing, that should come out to $75.00 per month at minimum.

I would think your saving $$$ overall.

Yeah, I would think this would be the main reason most people have stores. I know that's the case for me-- it costs me much, much less to pay the monthly fee for a store than it would if I were paying the insertion fees for all of the items I have listed.

nobody*s_perfect · ‎02-04-2023

@yuzuha wrote: ... it costs me much, much less to pay the monthly fee for a store than it would if I were paying the insertion fees for all of the items I have listed.

But that's not true for a Starter store subscription, which gets the same free 250 as a seller who doesn't have a Store. The Starter store is paying $4.95 (or $7.95) for zero extra free insertions.

nobody*s_perfect · ‎02-04-2023

@sapphire_studio wrote: .... less than $5 especially considering you only signed up for one month.

It was kind of weird they were only charging store owners for scheduled listings but at least that's being done away with.

$4.95 is the monthly cost if the seller commits to an annual subscription. For month-to-month, the cost would be $7.95.

eBay used to charge all sellers for using Scheduler, but several years ago during an especially unpopular fee change, they decided to let non-stores use it for free.