nawlinsron2 wrote:
FVF is a cost of goods sold.
How may items have you passed on buying for re-sale because the potential profit margin was too thin because of the FVF?
What sliding scale would attract you?
Ebay's FVF is such a small portion of my selling costs of doing business that I was relieved to shed the brick & mortar stores and how expensive they were!!! to sell here where it was so much less expensive, so this charge has never been a problem for me to cover in my asking price on merchandise. Obviously the less it is, the nicer.. and FREE would always be good, but the thing I found out is
for what I deal in, there are sites which cost less... but they don't bring me the buyers in remotely the numbers that eBay does. It doesn't cost quite as much to sell on a few of these sites, but they are dry empty deserts compared to eBay being a lush paradise as far as comparing the sites for buyers.
As USPS rates have climbed, I've eased back quite a bit on the large and heavy pieces that I used to deal in routinely, other than the higher-price art pieces or things like that, but little mundane heavy stuff anymore, so I have little worry over the FVF on shipping. Shipping costs aren't bad, so the fee on that portion of the transaction is easy to cover in asking prices.
Mostly the things I find to resell always have plenty of profit left in them, so a few percent off on FVF's is neither here nor there in my consideration. It just isn't enough to measure into the equation, really. These days, I still have so much of our own collections to deal in that it has to be something I think is special for some other reason before I buy too much to flip here, other than some of the little stuff that I've dealt forever. And I know where I get that stuff *real cheap* so there's always profit in it to price it low, flip it fast, and still pocket the profits.
But the lower you can get eBay and the other sites to charge us, I'm all for it. Thumbs up!
