eBay

jodster123 · ‎03-01-2019

They make enough money on final value fees that they could actually get rid of the listing fees. More people would sell and they would make more money. It's not that hard ebay. They sucked me in for the past 8 months and I have 400+ listings. They started making me use good until sold or cancelled listings about 4 months ago. With my thought was that's cool now I don't have to repay to relist the items that didn't sell which they didn't charge me they renewed automatically. They didn't even take my free listenings. They just kept giving me more free listenings so I used them. Now that they rolled out this good until sold or cancelled they are charging me. I have $150+ dollars in relisting fees. I don't have that kind of money. I'm not selling enough a month to justify spending that much. EBay please listen I love doing this but, I can no longer afford to do it. Please, quit being greedy. Stop the listing fees. You catch more flies with honey.....

dhbookds · ‎03-01-2019

Get your expenses under control......ebay isn't going to do away with the listing fees......

Open another account and use those free listings or pay the $7 or so to get the 100 listings in the starter store..........

ohnojoey · ‎03-01-2019

@jodster123 wrote:
They make enough money on final value fees that they could actually get rid of the listing fees. More people would sell and they would make more money. It's not that hard ebay. They sucked me in for the past 8 months and I have 400+ listings. They started making me use good until sold or cancelled listings about 4 months ago. With my thought was that's cool now I don't have to repay to relist the items that didn't sell which they didn't charge me they renewed automatically. They didn't even take my free listenings. They just kept giving me more free listenings so I used them. Now that they rolled out this good until sold or cancelled they are charging me. I have $150+ dollars in relisting fees. I don't have that kind of money. I'm not selling enough a month to justify spending that much. EBay please listen I love doing this but, I can no longer afford to do it. Please, quit being greedy. Stop the listing fees. You catch more flies with honey.....

Why is Ebay charging listing fees?

Because $.35 per listing X 1,000,000 is $350,000! How many listings per day does ebay charge for? A million or more?

Corporations don't wan't to "make enough money", they are always looking for ways to make more money.

"Now that they rolled out this good until sold or cancelled they are charging me. I have $150+ dollars in relisting fees."

That's a big increase. What were you charged before? Is this how the new GTC as shown in the update works? I understand why so many sellers are upset.

frjen-85 · ‎03-01-2019

They charge to keep people from listing stuff that is unlikely to sell

luckythewinner · ‎03-01-2019

Why is Ebay charging listing fees?

There are about 1.1 billion listings on eBay at any given time, and let's assume they are all one-month listings.

If eBay makes 4 cents per listing per month in store subscriptions and insertion fees, that is over half a billion dollars.

bigdeals.etc · ‎03-01-2019

@frjen-85 wrote:
They charge to keep people from listing stuff that is unlikely to sell

I agree with this. If listings were free, ebay would be a site with 90% junk items. I'd end up listing my toenail clippings once a week!

soh.maryl · ‎03-01-2019

Tell me if I am wrong: eBay has charged listing fees from the very beginning.

dhbookds · ‎03-01-2019

@soh.maryl wrote:
Tell me if I am wrong: eBay has charged listing fees from the very beginning.

As far as I know........... I've been here since 2004 and back then there were NO free listings except Dec 26 each year.......... Back then also the listing fees were onerous.....75c for 1 item under $10 with one picture and prices went up from there. It was very easy to lose your shirt if things didn't sell. Ebay had little incentive to work to get and keep buyers as their profits were guaranteed by the listing fees.......

bridgetown247 · ‎03-01-2019

@jodster123 wrote:
They make enough money on final value fees that they could actually get rid of the listing fees. More people would sell and they would make more money. It's not that hard ebay. They sucked me in for the past 8 months and I have 400+ listings. They started making me use good until sold or cancelled listings about 4 months ago. With my thought was that's cool now I don't have to repay to relist the items that didn't sell which they didn't charge me they renewed automatically. They didn't even take my free listenings. They just kept giving me more free listenings so I used them. Now that they rolled out this good until sold or cancelled they are charging me. I have $150+ dollars in relisting fees. I don't have that kind of money. I'm not selling enough a month to justify spending that much. EBay please listen I love doing this but, I can no longer afford to do it. Please, quit being greedy. Stop the listing fees. You catch more flies with honey.....

This is a ridiculous assumption. No charge means more items listed, more items listed means less visibility, less visibility means less sales.

Ever tried to get a front row seat at a free concert?

bigdeals.etc · ‎03-01-2019

@dhbookds wrote:
@soh.maryl wrote:
Tell me if I am wrong: eBay has charged listing fees from the very beginning.

As far as I know........... I've been here since 2004 and back then there were NO free listings except Dec 26 each year.......... Back then also the listing fees were onerous.....75c for 1 item under $10 with one picture and prices went up from there. It was very easy to lose your shirt if things didn't sell. Ebay had little incentive to work to get and keep buyers as their profits were guaranteed by the listing fees.......

Yes as far as I know listing fees have dropped overall since those times. But it was never free.

yuzuha · ‎03-01-2019

@frjen-85 wrote:
They charge to keep people from listing stuff that is unlikely to sell

Or from listing things at prices that no one will ever actually pay.

dirk12955 · ‎03-01-2019

"Why is EBAY charging listing fees?"

The same reason EXXON charges you to fill your vehicle with Gas.
The same reason McDs charges your nuggets.
The same reason The bank charges you to get overdrawn.

To make money. To pay the bigwigs their bonuses. To keep the unwashed hourly slave labor off the streets and out of the homeless shelters. To pay the CS drones $8.25 an hour. To please the stockholders.

Making a profit is not greed, We're all here to make a profit, right?

gamersbaystore · ‎03-02-2019

You have 400+ items for sale and you don't have a store? If you're going to put that much stuff up for sale then you should have a premium subscription for a store. You got stuck with the fees because you listed too much stuff and never considered the costs over time.

From what you stated it appears you were relying on free listing promotions, but you listed way more than the number of listings you had available, and you were counting on something that wasn't guaranteed (free promotional listings).

Its definitely not cheap to sell here for sure. I paid close to $150 on a 1$1,000 of sales this past month. But I also had no listing fees as I pay for a premium store subscription. Otherwise, you're paying an arm and a leg for each item you list, when you dont even know if that item will sell or not.