Well it's that time of the month again...

[ci1000]

My eBay store fees are due.... I'm paying $ 59.95 a month just to be here..... If our sales are being manipulated it would be really nice if ebay manipulated enough sales to occur when my store fees are due....

Just a thought:)

[jg.mason]

Seems to me I've heard this before. Didn't believe it then either. 😂

[gloryglorygifts]

They didn't "manipulate" enough sales for me either yet. LOL. Que sera sera.... 

[gloryglorygifts]

My fee is the same as yours btw.  Bigger store, for sure. 

[fern*wood]

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@ci1000 wrote:

.... if I drop my prices I end up working for free.... if I drop down to a basic store, I may save some money but I can't list as much and I'm pretty sure the eBay discounts on shipping are less.

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Did you actually look at your numbers?   I have a basic store & over 14k listed, but many are under collectibles and don't count toward the one thousand.  I will never need the full ten thousand so a basic store works.   It looks like you have many listings under collectibles.   The ebay/online discounts are the same regardless of store level.

[fbusoni]

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@isaiah53-57 wrote:

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@ci1000 wrote:

@fbusoni 

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@fbusoni wrote:

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@ci1000 wrote:

My eBay store fees are due.... I'm paying $ 59.95 a month just to be here..... If our sales are being manipulated it would be really nice if ebay manipulated enough sales to occur when my store fees are due....

Just a thought:)

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My buyers pay my monthly store fees.  Don't you work those fees into your prices?

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Of course I work those fees into my prices.... It's kind of a Catch 22 situation.... I need sales to generate the money to support the fees..... if I price the item too high the customer goes somewhere else.... if I drop my prices I end up working for free.... if I drop down to a basic store, I may save some money but I can't list as much and I'm pretty sure the eBay discounts on shipping are less.  Plus eBay has been encouraging sellers to pass that discount on to their buyers. Which in turn costs me more in final value fees.....

Kind of a lose lose situation when you are a small seller.

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@ci1000

I see people saying their buyers pay all their fees constantly here - Its a farce - Exactly as you presented part of the absurdity of it in the necessity to attractively price your items - You often times have to sell items for less and sometimes even far less that their worth here - If you have an item worth $40 and you sold it for $30 and paid fees where you netted $20, how did your buyers pay your fees? Just because you bought it for $10? No, sorry - You had a $40 item, now you have only $20 in trade in huge part because the site took upwards of 25% of the selling price in fees - And mind you, $20 that you still have many additional costs to deduct from, including the $10 you paid for it PLUS all the time you invested in selling it...

After all is said and done they walk away with $5 and a loss of 1/2 hr out of their lives they can never get back and present themselves as a business person a cut above the rest? - See it here all the time...

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Oh no.  The guy who failed on eBay is back dispensing advice.  

Farce, indeed.  

[tdl_collectibles]

The only reason to have the $60.00 store is if you have 10,000+ listings in collectibles, so that is why he mentioned that.  The shipping supplies they give you definetely don't make it worth it so it's really just a matter of matching up the store level you need vs. never having to pay "extra" for listing fees.

[mam98031]

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@meme6253 wrote:

My store renews soon, If i decide to even stay, I will drop down to a Basic store. Save some money there, But can't list as much & i think shipping cost slightly more

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@meme6253 

Why won't you be able to list as much.  Many of your current items are listing in categories that you get 10,000 free listings in a Basic Store.  Why isn't that enough?

[tools*]

I stopped subscribing to an eBay store (after 15 years) about six years ago when velvet@ebay.com (on Facebook) tried to tell me that an eBay charge for a 95-pound USPS Priority Mail return of a 5-pound camera lens was justified. I've saved a lot of money in those six years.

[mam98031]

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@ci1000 wrote:

@fbusoni 

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@fbusoni wrote:

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@ci1000 wrote:

My eBay store fees are due.... I'm paying $ 59.95 a month just to be here..... If our sales are being manipulated it would be really nice if ebay manipulated enough sales to occur when my store fees are due....

Just a thought:)

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My buyers pay my monthly store fees.  Don't you work those fees into your prices?

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Of course I work those fees into my prices.... It's kind of a Catch 22 situation.... I need sales to generate the money to support the fees..... if I price the item too high the customer goes somewhere else.... if I drop my prices I end up working for free.... if I drop down to a basic store, I may save some money but I can't list as much and I'm pretty sure the eBay discounts on shipping are less.  Plus eBay has been encouraging sellers to pass that discount on to their buyers. Which in turn costs me more in final value fees.....

Kind of a lose lose situation when you are a small seller.

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You post in many of the categories that you are allowed up to 10,000 free listings per month in a Basic store.  Why wouldn't that work for you?

[reallynicestamps]

I'm not clear on what you're talking about in regards to "why such a high fee? I have a different level of store than you so my cost is higher.

With 1300 listings , it would be more economic to have a Basic Store, instead of a Premium.

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/store-selling-fees?id=4809

Although the Basic only gives you 1000 "free" listings for your subscription, it's usual to have thousands more in promotional listings, which are really Free and which are used before your subscribed listings.

Take a look at your Seller Hub and see what you really have available.
I normally have 10,000 Free promotional listings with my Basic Store.

I understand what you mean about the disconnect between the Managed Payments balance and the date for monthly fee payments.

If it really annoys you, you could consider moving to monthly payments instead of weekly.

It would be helpful if eBay switched to fee payment day being on a Monday, since most sellers use the default Tuesday bank transfer to be paid.

And of course having a distinct credit card for online business is a given. In your case, I assume that is also your business' card.

[sextons-sweet-deals]

I get what you're saying. 

I always had funds available to pay my store fees until now. Is it eBay and all their updates and no advertising and / or the Microsoft glitch? Received a message that my bank account would be charged with the next 3 days. 

I just made a sale today and eBay snatched the funds from the sale which doesn't bother me. Just made me chuckle a bit. 

[tools*]

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@inhawaii wrote:

This was a true conspiracy theory I read on these very boards about a year ago...

Ebay only lets you have sales when your store fees are due.

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I found that to be true before I got rid of my eBay store six years ago. It was uncanny how a few sales would come in just when the store fee was due, after weeks of tumbleweed.

[tools*]

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@sextons-sweet-deals wrote:

I get what you're saying. 

I always had funds available to pay my store fees until now. Is it eBay and all their updates and no advertising and / or the Microsoft glitch? Received a message that my bank account would be charged with the next 3 days. 

I just made a sale today and eBay snatched the funds from the sale which doesn't bother me. Just made me chuckle a bit.

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It wasn't a "Microsoft glitch." It was buggy security software from a company called CrowdStrike that apparently is used by thousands of large companies that deploy software on critical systems without testing it first.

[meme6253]

I thought there were more restrictions for listing in a basic store. Thanks for that Info.

[mam98031]

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@meme6253 wrote:

I thought there were more restrictions for listing in a basic store. Thanks for that Info.

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Nope.  I dropped from a Premium store to a Basic store back when Ebay made the changes and adding the 10,000 free listings in certain categories.  When Ebay makes significant changes to the Stores, they allow us to downgrade or upgrade when we have a yearly subscription without penalty for the first 30 days or so of the changes.  I took advantage of that and it has worked just fine for me.