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:)

[sextons-sweet-deals]

in which Microsoft users / corporations were affected. 

[vintagecraze50]

You do not cave into giving your items away on here. For some they may not have the resources to wait for the sale, for others keeping these prices at comparable values across the web is very important for YOU, and the rest of our fellow sellers here to keep the prices stable and profitable. AS for paying your fees, KEEP your prices where they need to be for that to be profitable.

[vintagecraze50]

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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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You might get LESS VISIBILITY as well if you drop your store subscription. I would not be surprised at all.

[isaiah53-57]

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@jg.mason wrote:

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

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Whats not to believe? - If you do not MAXIMIZE your profit, your buyer did not pay your fees - Its that simple.

How about this - Say ebay didnt have fees on Thursdays...

You sell a $40 item on Thursday for $40 and net $40.

You sell same item on Friday with 25% fees and net $30.

The buyer paid the same price on both days - He didnt give you extra money on Friday because you had to pay fees that day, thereby "paying your fees" - The fees come out of YOUR PROFIT - You are paying those fees - If you are not maximizing your profit, then you are paying for your own fees -  Maximizing your profit would be selling a $40 item for $40 without having to pay for fees - Sorry - Thats not happening on this site likely 99% of the time.

[jg.mason]

Profit,

: the excess of returns over expenditure in a transaction or series of transactions

especially : the excess of the selling price of goods over their cost

The buyer paid all of that, what was left was my profit.

[yuzuha]

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@sextons-sweet-deals wrote:

in which Microsoft users / corporations were affected. 

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Not personal users who weren't using that particular commercial antivirus software.

My computer runs Windows 11. Zero issues here because I don't use Crowdstrike.

[reallynicestamps]

Sales are daily (if all goes well, hourly if everything goes swimmingly).

Fees are monthly.

Sometimes the calendar is on your side, sometimes it isn't.

Since I don't know when your fees come due  for reference, if they were due on the 15th, that would be a Tuesday three times in 2024.

Wednesday was the 15th ONCE in 2024.

I'm really bored with scanning book covers right now.

[yoonix1]

I would suggest to look at the calendar, may be people got paid.

[mam98031]

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@vintagecraze50 wrote:

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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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You might get LESS VISIBILITY as well if you drop your store subscription. I would not be surprised at all.

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That is an assumption that simply is NOT true.  @vintagecraze50 , please provide proof that this is correct.  What policy does this appear in?  Where did your statement come from?

It can be harmful to pass bad/incorrect information around.  In this case cost a member literally about $30 a month because they believe what you posted without any proof and stick with a more expensive store.  Why?

[isaiah53-57]

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@jg.mason wrote:

Profit,

: the excess of returns over expenditure in a transaction or series of transactions

especially : the excess of the selling price of goods over their cost

The buyer paid all of that, what was left was my profit.

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The term "expenditures" and "costs" in your definition do not belong to the buyer - The buyer did not incur those costs, you did - You are responsible for them - Only YOU can control costs - The buyer simply agrees to a price for the item not having a clue or caring what your true costs are -  Its difficult to pass on your time, sweat and toil to a buyer in any fair terms when reselling - And any passing of responsibility assumes a lack of control and apathy as to what your true costs as a seller really are.

In "value-based pricing", which is the best method to maximize profit for the items we typically sell, anything less than full value is a cost - A discount is a cost - How does a buyer pay for that?

You certainly cant pass on your costs to infinity as some seem to imply - and its one of the main reasons buyer shun this site - Used goods here for more money than new on other sites, because sellers here are buying into the fallacy that buyers should take responsibility for the sellers costs...

Its the reason EVERY good sales company's different departments must account for their costs to keep the company's overall selling costs down and viability up - Because they take responsibility for all THEIR costs and expenditures.

[jg.mason]

Round and round it goes where it stops nobody knows.