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I **bleep**en do have tourette's and if anyone wants to start on me because I have this awful disability then **bleep**en go ahead see if I care hahaha.
But if you think I'm going to whinge about it on these **bleep**en boards then you're mistaken 
@mjm7774 wrote:Because it is often us small sellers listing the desirable high end items and brands that drag people to ebay via google searches! Most of the bulk sellers do not have the really high end stuff buyers came to ebay for in the first place. If they provide us with free listings it is a win win for them with unpaid advertising essentially. I have hundreds of items up and consider myself a small seller. I do not want a shop and am absolutely sick of ebay essentially black mailing us weekend sellers into one. I have a daughter with a disability currently will have 6 + operations in one year, 3 kids, full time work and part time uni study - I do not want to pay a monthly subscription fee when there are just months that I would not even be able to use it effectively. Given the many free platforms sellers now have I don't understand the "inevitable" and accepting attitude so many of you have to insertion fees. Take our FV - that is a win win and happy to pay but I refuse to pay an insertion fee for something I may or may not even sell.
Firstly, I have to say I agree with you about some of the smaller/ medium range sellers on ebay having some of the more interesting things, things you can't usually find with the bulk listers from China.
Second hand definitely doesn't mean an item is no good.
In the past i have bought heaps of things, including clothes, that were maybe not high end but were good brands and I was very happy with them.
I haven't bothered looking up exactly what items the different posters here have up for sale at the moment as I don't think our individual opinions on them are strictly relevant. Everyone is different. All that matters really is the sell rate.
I also (and I might be in a minority on this, but I don't mind being different
) don't mind if people explain their circumstances, I think it helps us to get a perspective on what might or might not work for them.
I can understand why you are hesitant to subscribe to a shop, when you're not certain if you could even use it some months.
I don't know that all the regulars here love the ebay fees either but I tend to agree with someone earlier (forget who) who mentioned that ebay has operating costs and they will be going with whatever model they think will generate more income and be more successful.
If you want to look at insertion fees, ebay isn't unusual in charging them. And if you really want to see an American model of it at work, look no further than Costco. It costs something like $65 per annum just to become a 'member', for the right to even enter their stores, yet thousands of people pay it. I guess they pay it as they think that over the year they will save that much or more in purchases, but there are no guarantees, are there?
You'll pay insertion fees in newspapers and quite a lot of other online services. You'll pay fees to set up a stall anywhere.
So I think that what you as a seller need to do is sit down one day when you have a spare hour and go over your sales for the last 12 months. List how much you sold each month. Then deduct your costs-item costs, FVF and so on.
You say you have hundreds of items up, so it doesn't sound as if 40 items a month would work for you. I think you need to look at how many items you have, on average, in any one month.
The bottom line though is your profit each month.
Now factor in what a basic store on ebay would cost you per year. My understanding is the listing fees per item are much cheaper this way. I realise that some months, you might not get much use out of a store. But for instance, if you had had a store over the last 12 months, work out your overall costs/profits to see if it would have been worth it, even given the fact some months were lean.
I know paying for a shop would cut into profits, but only you can work out if it would still work out enough in your favour to consider it as an option.
I don't think listing fees are going to go away any time soon. They have been around on ebay in one form or another since forever, so totally free listings are probably not going to be introduced across the board any time soon.
If a shop would not work for you, profit wise, when you look at it over a long term view of eg a year, then the only way i can see you operating is by limiting your listings to 40 a month and testing out some other, free, selling platforms.
Countess.... You win.......
I get accused ( probably correctly ) of writing war and peace at times, but that must have taken ages.......
Chameleon, it's this terrible condition of mine... sesquipedalianism. It is agony for me when I'm to write something with a strict word limit.
@countessalmirena wrote:Chameleon, it's this terrible condition of mine... sesquipedalianism. It is agony for me when I'm to write something with a strict word limit.
Now you are just showing off. I reckon my vocabulary is not bad for an uneducated, remote farmer but sesquipedalianism ?????....... Cmon !!!
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Well actually I checked and yes it is a word and used correctly, so to you miss smarty pants .....
to you miss smarty pants .....Spoiler
I bet you where the pretty girl with pig tales and glasses who sat at the front of the class with your hand up everytime the teacher answered a question
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And yes I was the bored, naughty lad who slouched in his seat at the back of the class, passing notes and drawing pictures of hot rod cars in his English book..........
