Seller changes coming soon to eBay.com.au

sukhy on 29/03/2012 - 13:01

Moved to Forum: Original Link

Simplified and transparent fees

FREE pictures on all listings

- get 12 free pictures on every listing

FREE Supersize and Gallery Plus

- helping to make your listings more cost-effective and attractive to buyers

Continue to list for FREE*

- no insertion fees on your first 30 listings per month

7.9% flat final value fee with $100 cap per item for the first 30 listings per month**

Simpler fee structure

- if you exceed 30 listings in a month the number of insertion fee tiers will reduce from six to three

Removal of many listing upgrade features

- making it easier to understand listing costs.

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Comments

  • hippocrit on 29/03/2012 - 13:02
    +2

    They are going to be permanent changes, so it's probably better off in the forums.

  • nubzy on 29/03/2012 - 13:05

    you have to pay 7.9% of the selling price of item as fees?? that is enough to keep me away from ebay.

    • [Deactivated] on 29/03/2012 - 13:06
      +3

      Don't forget Paypal fees…

      • mini2 on 29/03/2012 - 13:13

        That's easily 10% when both of them combined…

        • scrimshaw on 29/03/2012 - 16:04

          eBay gets hardly any money from the small-time sellers, so they jack up the final value fee to 7.9% to squeeze more money out of the casual eBayers.

        • Daabido on 30/03/2012 - 07:56

          It's not only casual sellers who pay these fees.

          I have said for years that eBay will eventually raise their fees to the point of real life auctions - 20% for the seller and a 15% buyer premium.

          Within three years I wager fees will be in the 15% range, unless Google enters the fray. Monopolies generally don't regulate their own behaviour well.

    • m0nkeycheese on 30/03/2012 - 01:29

      Its called FeeBay for a reason

      • kwaker on 30/03/2012 - 12:02

        Then why doesnt someone start Freebay?

  • nubzy on 29/03/2012 - 13:17

    I have only sold one thing on ebay and will never again. the fees take far too much away, not worth the time or effort. use gumtree or public noticeboards instead.

    • mini2 on 29/03/2012 - 16:35
      +1

      But you're paying for the exposure pretty much. Funny enough Gumtree is owned by eBay as well….sooner or later it will also be a fee based thing.

  • voteoften on 29/03/2012 - 13:18

    What is going toi happen is that a lot more overpriced rubbish is going to appear since people only pay of they sell.

  • sparkles on 29/03/2012 - 13:18
    +1

    Straight up, eBay's fees are getting too high even with free listings and free pictures.

  • plmko on 29/03/2012 - 14:27

    It's day-light robbery what they do here, but where else are you going to get an audience who are willing to pay you $20 for a free download code you got with a video game purchase?

    • Ughhh on 29/03/2012 - 23:57
      +2

      or $15 for Hungry Jacks vouchers that can be had for free.

  • Blinda on 30/03/2012 - 10:23
    +2

    But the only thing is eBay can sell. I tried to avoid the fees and listed on Gumtree which only attracts scammers. 90% people contact me via gumtree are scammers. What other options we have here?

    • morpheu on 30/03/2012 - 13:24

      sometimes the sellers on gumtree are lowlifes too! 2 recent examples, i was going to buy an iphone from this guy who never showed up-should have noticed something fishy when he said to meet up at a fast food joint! and another guy selling a laptop, rang first day said i would buy, he listed same item that night on ebay, did he bother to tell me? no!

      • Ughhh on 30/03/2012 - 13:31

        Just wondering, would you consider it fishy if the seller wanted to meet at a public place like fast food restaurant, shopping mall etc. rather than his house?

        • morpheu on 30/03/2012 - 13:46

          public places are fine, except this joker lied because he said he worked in the fast food shop!

        • unity1 on 30/03/2012 - 15:56
          +1

          I always give the option to meet at a shopping centre, a McDonald or a police station.

        • gamernz on 30/03/2012 - 18:34

          I read somewhere that for sales of things like off road bikes etc, people would like to meet at service stations to avoid being targeted for theft.

        • Ughhh on 30/03/2012 - 18:47

          Ah meeting at service stations is a good idea. As a seller I would never meet at my house, mainly due to stalking. I would only meet in a public place like shopping centres, however I have came across a buyer who accused me of selling fakes because of that!

        • voteoften on 30/03/2012 - 22:46

          I'd rather meet at a public place as a buyer or seller.

    • jlogic on 30/03/2012 - 23:57

      This is what puts me off selling on Gumtree…

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