Advice please on whether to open an ebay shop?

pinky8

Hi,

I have been selling on ebay now for about a year, I have just started to sell body jewellery aswell as baby items. I have thought about opening a shop but the information on shops is just confusing me. Will i get exactly the same service i am getting now for just a 5p listing fee?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks,

Becci

loonee

I have only just opened an ebay shop so I'm sure others will have more of an idea than me, however it seems that it would depend on whether most of the items you sell are Buy It Now or auction items. It looks like the 5p fee applies when you sell something on Buy It Now as what ebay calls an inventory item. These items will appear after the regular items when somebody searches for a specific product, but you can display them for 30 days at a time. This presumably makes it cheaper if you have got several of the same thing and you can leave them on indefinitely until they sell, renewing the payment every 30 days.You can still sell items as you did before, it just depends whether the cost of the shop, £6 per month for the basic shop. makes it worthwhile for the extra option. It looks like the 1st 30 days is free so might be worth a try.

LongDongDave

pinky8 wrote:

Hi,
Will i get exactly the same service i am getting now for just a 5p listing fee?

3p per listing now :-)

cougar_3

THe cheap listings will aprear at the very bottom of searches, and you will pay £6 a month for that priviledge. Try ebay shops for free for a month (think they're still running that promotion) and see if it does generate any business. I doubt it.
How many times have you bought from the shops listings yourself?

peter_the_piper

It depends whether you have a large range of items available. I sell plants so have just opened a shop for a couple of months. To have listed them all on a normal auction would have cost me a lot more and I would have had to keep relisting them. Its up to you.