A proposed boycott on eBay listings went into effect on Monday, and since then the number of listings on the site dropped from around 14.5 million down to 14 million. That comes out to a 3% drop overall, which isn’t quite as high as the strikers would have liked to see. They were hoping to see the listings drop down to 12 million or even 10 million, but you also have to take into account the fact that eBay had a special offer last Wednesday on listing fees which caused a surge in traffic. Because of the special offer the number of listings sky rocketed from 12 million up to 16 million, and those auctions are just starting to dissipate right now.
The one thing that really irks me about how eBay handled this was that they sent out an email to all members notifying them of the reduced eBay listing fees. They conveniently forgot to include the fact that they jacked up the final value fees by 67% (from 5.25% to 8.75%) to compensate for the reduced costs. On a $500 item eBay will make an extra $17 if the item sells, and you’ll save yourself a buck or two max on the price of the listing. The only real savings for sellers comes if an item doesn’t actually sell. *sigh*
What I’m really dreading as a seller is the inability to leave negative feedback for the buyers, which is supposed to be rolled out in the coming months. I’m really hoping that eBay alternatives, such as eCRATER, will really start picking up steam so we’re not left with just one option for selling our worthless junk priceless valuables.
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eBay have always been sneaky in the way they do business. Even when there’s ticket scalping in my local area where the tickets are numbered and can be traced, eBay makes up some excuse and turns a blind eye to preventing the sale. They’re just after cash, that’s all. Don’t like ‘em.
“The only real savings for sellers comes if an item doesn’t actually sell. *sigh*”
You get all your fees back if it doesn’t sell. The only people who save are those who sell worthless things.
I can’t really say that I’m surprised. I wonder how well the upcoming alternatives deal with things like this.
ebay already has 95% of online auctions’, they can’t go any further, so they tried to go into new business areas’ with Skype but we all know how that went. Now they are going to have to raise prices to keep growth from stalling.
FeeBay is an unethical monster that thinks people don’t have a choice and can’t go anywhere else — LET’S PUT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS!
I`m a seller on Ebay and sometimes a loose or get even when selling.
Because there`s so much competition and so many fees on just little things .
Example if you sell an item for 13.99 ebay makes .98 cents and Paypal makes .45 cents and the worst of these thing is shipping ,if I charge $4 shipping then you pay .45 or so .
Total is $6.00 Item cost $8.
This is a ripoff.
They make so much money and even the actual shipping price of the label .
I hate it but where`s the alternative when it comes to used items or other things.
and more to talk about but they wouldnt listen ..