Even if you are getting sales ebay has made it impossible to earn a profit because the associated fees are so incredibly enormous. The fees destroy my motivation more than the slow sales.
As an example, I pay $60 a month for my store, $120 to $150 in final value fees, and another $30 to $50 a month in listing fees.
That means on average my first $250 a month in sales is a total loss in terms of fees. Then I have to do another $150 in sales on top of that in order to break even given the products I sold, bringing that total to $400.
That means the first $400 in sales I get every month on just $1,300 a month of average sales is all a total loss!
How is anyone supposed to be motivated to sell here when the only one making money is ebay?
The fees are too high, and ebay has literally created a system that only benefits themselves, and regardless of how many sales you make, ebay is the only one who earns anything.
I'm working on alternatives to running my e-commerce business without ebay, as regardless of how much you sell here, you can never earn a profit because the associated fees will always take your profits away.
ebay is losing too because of those fees. My friend who did hundreds of thousands of transactions here totaling millions of dollars in sales closed his business here last year citing the ridiculous fees as being the sole reason for shutting down.
My friend did over a quarter million dollars in sales last year alone, he said he earned nothing, ebay's fees ate up all the profits.
