eBay

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.

sapphire_studio · ‎02-04-2023

It sounds like the OP got the starter store because they do need more listings and they're probably just mad that they assumed they could get 250 more for so cheap and they turned out to be wrong.

At least they're free to upgrade to the next level store which they should definitely consider if they really do need more listings. I would not hesitate to go to the basic store as soon as I ran out of listings even if I was barely over just so I wouldn't feel at all limited in continuing to list from my inventory.

theteamsetguy · ‎02-04-2023

@monroe67 ,

Unfortunately, I believe the Bernie you are talking about has moved on and no longer amongst us.

nobody*s_perfect · ‎02-04-2023

@sapphire_studio wrote: ... they're free to upgrade to the next level store which they should definitely consider if they really do need more listings....

They don't need more listings yet; they currently have fewer than 130 listings.

theteamsetguy · ‎02-04-2023

@paradise-cds-and-cards ,

Oh please! C’mon man, a $4.95 monthly fee or $21.95 annually for a eBay is not the biggest corporate scam.

I have a hard time believing that over the course of a year if a seller had 250 items consistently listed the increased sales from see sellers other items link would not more than make up the $21.95 fee to have a store.

nobody*s_perfect · ‎02-04-2023

@theteamsetguy wrote:... if a seller had 250 items consistently listed the increased sales from see sellers other items link would not more than make up the $21.95 fee to have a store.

I'm confused. A seller with no store gets 250 free insertions and a "see other items" link in all of their listings.

magicjohnsonsvariety · ‎02-04-2023

@theteamsetguy wrote:
@paradise-cds-and-cards ,

Oh please! C’mon man, a $4.95 monthly fee or $21.95 annually for a eBay is not the biggest corporate scam.

I have a hard time believing that over the course of a year if a seller had 250 items consistently listed the increased sales from see sellers other items link would not more than make up the $21.95 fee to have a store.

Every listing has a see other items link...store or not.

yuzuha · ‎02-04-2023

@nobody*s_perfect wrote:
@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.

I thought the Starter store got an additional 250 on top of the free 250? Is that not the case?

nobody*s_perfect · ‎02-04-2023

@yuzuha wrote: ... I thought the Starter store got an additional 250 on top of the free 250? Is that not the case?

That is not the case, as the OP found out. The 250 free insertions that non-stores get are specifically for sellers who do not have a store. Sellers who have a store subscription do not get those 250 free insertions.

yuzuha · ‎02-04-2023

@nobody*s_perfect wrote:
@yuzuha wrote: ... I thought the Starter store got an additional 250 on top of the free 250? Is that not the case?
That is not the case, as the OP found out. The 250 free insertions that non-stores get are specifically for sellers who do not have a store. Sellers who have a store subscription do not get those 250 free insertions.

Ah, okay. I have a Basic store, which gives me 1,000 free listings across all categories and then an additional 10,000 in certain other categories (which is beneficial to me as Collectibles is the primary category I sell in). I thought it was similar with a Starter store, but I guess not.