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You must be a professional seller to have 200 items ready for selling in 4 days.
If I list my PC Powerplay, APC and comics individually I reckon I can hit that limit
You must be a professional seller to have 200 items ready for selling in 4 days
Years ago there was no "free listings" on eBay like the 40 that all casual sellers get now days. So these kinds of promos were excellent value for some sellers.
What you do is get a copy of Ebay Turbo Lister and write up all the listings in advance, and sit on them.
When there is a promo, bammo… upload!
I thought the listing fee (~ $1-$2) is not a lot and a small portion of the fees..
You get 40 a month for free so who needs that many?
Can you bank transfer me $2 since it's not a lot to you? How about do it 200 times?
I am not in the business of selling 200 things in a month..and I see you are looking at the small fish. You might as well sell it by other means and save a lot more than just the listing fee..
My comment stand that this is just a drop in the ocean compared to the other fees you need to pay..
didn't realise that one had neg comments before replying
I don't get these promos.. I sell on ebay and never pay for listing.. just the absurd 10%+paypal fees.
So they let you save $1 off listing fees but charge you 16% for final value fees/paypal/postage fees? How kind and thoughtful of eBay!
It's no saving at all, unless you list over 40 items a month.
I list a fair bit on eBay and still don't come anywhere close to their 40 free listings per month…. no way would I be able to get 200.
The 9.9% final value fee sucks though and so does the 2.6% + 30 cents paypal fees
The 9.9% final value fee sucks though and so does the 2.6% + 30 cents paypal fees
Why do you care? Your buyer pays those fees.
Sellers already know about the fees and build it into the price, just like every other seller does.
The 9.9% is the cost of advertising and selling the item. It's about 1/3 the cost of the selling fee in a real world auction.
The 2.6% for Paypal is the merchant payment fees, and covers the card processing, etc. Cheaper than the cost of a small Merchant Account with a bank…. however if you are decent volumes and can process payments through a bank cheaper, then simply nominate that and you don't need to accept Paypal.
Why do you care? Your buyer pays those fees.
Sellers already know about the fees and build it into the price, just like every other seller does.Wrong. Buyers dont pay 16% extra on RRP or other online store prices. They will pay equal or cheaper. So the sellers always take the hit.
It's not supposed to be 16% extra on RRP.
It's 16% of final price for platform expense.
If you have your own website, you have:
1. Hosting costs.
2. Website development and maintenance costs.
3. Maintenance contract with payments provider.
4. Google adwords expense.
If you have your own store… you have an even bigger one:
1. Rent
2. Electricity
3. Water
4. Yellow pages listing.
These are the things ebay is charging 16% for.
The seller does not "take a hit", given for small retailers, these add up to more than 16%.
But with that said… 16% is quite a lot and explains why ebay stores are not very competitive in pricing.
The thing that annoys me the most with eBay is them taking 10% of your postage fees, despite they using standard Australian post prices by default.
Some of the postage fees are 10% cheaper, however they take upto 13% off from you for the convenience of having a label printed and no paperwork.
despite they using standard Australian post prices by default.
If you process the postage through eBay, the postage is discounted by 10%.
thanks, i rarely get the email for these promos.
Ebay fees and the new 'money back' rules are bad news even for honest sellers.
As a buyer, you can get a discount if you offer to pick up the item and offer cash to the seller.
Caveat of course is you don't get buyer protection but you can get 10% off the listing price.
Its quite risky to do this for things that are posted, unless you trust the seller.