MSE News: Planning an eBay sale? Act now as fees are set to rise

Former_MSE_Helen

"eBay fees for upgraded listing services such as 'gallery plus' and subtitles will rise from 14 August "...

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Planning an eBay sale? Act now as fees are set to rise



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Trow

"Charging for sales which end early. Currently eBay allows sellers to end one auction a year early without a charge."

Surely this should read 'one auction per year', otherwise it sounds like the auction is going on for a looong time!

Doc_N

Outrageous increases in fees, and as always eBay will extract every last penny that it can from its users.

But then - there's no effective competition so it can, and it will.

FidgitsID

Doc_N wrote: »

Outrageous increases in fees, and as always eBay will extract every last penny that it can from its users.

Only if sellers let them, with the 20 free listings a month + FLWs if I ever have over that, these higher fees will never affect what they get to charge me

soolin

Doc_N wrote: »

Outrageous increases in fees, and as always eBay will extract every last penny that it can from its users.

But then - there's no effective competition so it can, and it will.

I would imagine the percentage of sellers using the enhanced listing features is very small , I can't recall the last time I bothered at all.

RFW

soolin wrote: »

I would imagine the percentage of sellers using the enhanced listing features is very small , I can't recall the last time I bothered at all.

I think if you are using them you should probably have a good read of the listing threads on here, those upgrades are all an unnecessary waste of money.

robin58

Doc_N wrote: »

Outrageous increases in fees, and as always eBay will extract every last penny that it can from its users.

But then - there's no effective competition so it can, and it will.

Time for a anti competition commission inquiry to happen.;)

Money-Saving-King

Doc_N wrote: »

Outrageous increases in fees, and as always eBay will extract every last penny that it can from its users.

But then - there's no effective competition so it can, and it will.

For someone selling a lot online there's Amazon Marketplace.

RFW

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

For someone selling a lot online there's Amazon Marketplace.

The fees are pretty much the same. There are some differences but as far as a money saving tip goes for selling stuff it really isn't one. For lower volume private sellers it's 80p/transaction plus fees, for higher volume sellers it's £30/month plus fees.

There are other ways to sell though, many of which are free and can work with some effort, Gumtree, Facebool, newspapers, carboot sales, etc

cornishcheel

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE - will someone start up an opposition selling site to ebay? They have had the monopoly for far too long. Who has ever heard of someone charging you to keep your money in their bank???! (3.4% for receiving money - that was the last time I checked it).

soolin

cornishcheel wrote: »

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE - will someone start up an opposition selling site to ebay? They have had the monopoly for far too long. Who has ever heard of someone charging you to keep your money in their bank???! (3.4% for receiving money - that was the last time I checked it).

There has been plenty of competition, ebid for instance has been running in the UK longer than ebay but nobody really uses it. Other sites have come and gone over the years. There are a lot of rumours about new players coming into the market, some of them have us quite hopeful- but it is reasonable to expect they will want the profitable bit of the market- and that is probably medium to large business sellers. Meanwhile private sellers can use Facebook selling pages, Gumtree etc and even small local ads.

As for the paypal fee- they are not charging for keeping your money they are charging to receive it- and their charges are actually slightly lower than a pukka merchant card payment system.