topic Re: Stores vs General sales FEES in Selling

Stores vs General sales FEES

newoldoddstuff — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:02:07 GMT

Hi there, Im considering creating a store for my sellers page. Does anyone have an comments regarding the advantages/disadvantages of doing so? Also could someone explain to me the ebay fees in COMPARE STORE COSTS selection please. Just where it says BASIC STORE PACKAGE 200 Fixed Price FREE then scrolling down it says FIXED PRICE INSERTION FEE $0.50 - does that charge only apply once you go over the 200 free listings. Cheers, Dave

Re: Stores vs General sales FEES

pennyforum14 — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:12:00 GMT

For a basic store you pay $19.95 per month and get 200 free fixed price listings, any listings over that number are charged at .50c each for fixed price format, or $1.50 each for auctions.

Re: Stores vs General sales FEES

imastawka — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:26:17 GMT

Hi Dave

Personally I'd wait until I got my feedback up a bit.

You'll be paying for 200 listings but you'll probably be restricted

to 20 until that fb hits 50

Re: Stores vs General sales FEES

digital*ghost — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:27:02 GMT

It depends on your items, how many you have, and a few other things as to whether a store would be more beneficial or not, there's lots of category specific info, as well, which can make things a bit confusing at times.

Fee-wise, since your items are in the toys category, the fee will drop from 9.9% to 8% with a basic store. The 200 free listings that come with a basic store are for fixed price (buy it now) format, in any category, and auctions only within the collectible categories (so doesn't inlcude toys - the FVF in collectible categories only drops to 9.5% with a store, as well). After the 200 free listings are used, each Buy It Now costs 50c, and each auction will cost $1.50, except if in a collectible category, then it will cost $1 (an auction in any other category will cost $1.50 with a store even if you have all your free listings available).

In general, the primary advantages of a store is that your items can be listed for up to 30 days at a time, or as 'good til cancelled', meaning the listing lasts until sold out or manually ended (they still have a 30 day cycle, so every 30 days the listing ticks over and either uses one of the free listings that comes with a store, or it is charged a new listing fee if you've gone over). These kinds of listings are simple to maintain as long as you keep an eye on stock levels (if you have multiples) and are good for building sales history / best match rankings. Store categories can make it easier to organise your item listings by type, or whatever sub-categories would suit your items, selling manager pro is free if you opt to subscribe, and you can access promotional and discounting tools.

Disadvantages I suppose would mostly be related to turnover. Store / Buy It Now listings can move slower than regular auctions because they usually only end when someone buys, so no sense of 'missed opportunity' by a clock ticking down, but IMO that's becoming less and less an issue, especially if an item is readily available most of the time.

Re: Stores vs General sales FEES

newoldoddstuff — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 08:37:18 GMT

Thanks for the input, appreciated.

Re: Stores vs General sales FEES

jessicadazzler97 — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 21:12:02 GMT

Depends how much stuff you want to be selling I guess. If you're happy listing 40 free items a month, stick with that. I'd say only if you're selling most of that then it's a good idea to move up to a store.

Re: Stores vs General sales FEES

davewil1964 — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 13:16:16 GMT

It's a bit more involved than that. Stores attract lesser fees (including postage), have the ability to list for 30 days or GTC, have a minimum of 200 free BIN listings per month...

So the 40 free, max 10 day, listings may or may not provide a baseline. As you don't have a store, I suspect you have NFI.

Re: Stores vs General sales FEES

jessicadazzler97 — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 21:06:57 GMT

Don't worry, I did know about the discounted fees and everything. It just seems to me that stores are only for people who have several hundred listings at once, which I was trying to get across in my other post 🙂

Re: Stores vs General sales FEES

atgdesigns — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 23:02:55 GMT

Do you need an ABN number to open an ebay store?

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joethenuts — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 00:13:20 GMT

Re: Stores vs General sales FEES

trailer-board-paradise — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 02:52:02 GMT

For the fees there is a Fee Illustrator which helps calculate what fees you would pay depending on the type of store set up. It's a bit broad but gives some idea.