eBay Store Advantages

[vintagecoolretrovcr]

I don't have an eBay Store, I simply sell auction style or buy it now. What are the advantages of selling in an eBay Store? Thanks.

[rock.star]

You will need to be listing hundreds of item a month before a store would be useful. 

[luckythewinner]

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@vintagecoolretrovcr wrote:

I don't have an eBay Store, I simply sell auction style or buy it now. What are the advantages of selling in an eBay Store? Thanks.

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The "subscriptions and fees" page lists the benefits of a store. Note that the benefits are different at each store level. 

https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/run-your-store/subscriptions-and-fees.html

But in a nutshell: 

• You can "brand" your store
• Store categories to organize your listings
• More free inertions
• Lower insertion value fees
• Lower final value fees
• Lower caps on final value fees
• Discounts on eBay branded shipping supplies
• Access to "promoted lsitings"
• Some additional tools to manage your business

[m_pthisandthat]

It took me awhile selling on before I opened my store. Ther are a few advantages that I will mention. First, ther are the additional free listings that your store will provide. Second you can send people to your store or buyers can visit your store from a listing. This gives you a centraal location for all your items. You can group your items in your store to make the buying experience  easier. Regarding additional listings it is easy to see what the mothly fee for a store and then compare it to the cost of listings that above the free listings you are now getting. Remember ti is not just new listings you get billed every month for all lisitngs you have on ebay.  There are more but this should give you a start on your deciding to open a store or not.  

[m_pthisandthat]

I just took a look at your lisitngs it appeared that you had about twenty listings unless you plan on greatly increasing your number of listings your along way from needing a store

[somanypcs]

One advantage that seldom gets mentioned is that you can list in a second store category at no extra cost, so someone visiting your store and browsing by categories has twice the chance of seeing your listing.

[ltcsells]

I made the decision based purely on my monthly insertion fee.

If your number of monthly listings is consistently costing more for insertion fees than it is for a monthly store fee, then it might make sense to have a store because having a store would increase your free listings count. I also take into account in this figure with the free shipping supplies coupon.  The coupon essentially balances out the fee for one month in a quarter.

I think you also need to have a store to do promotions -- like a percent off sale across all your items.