topic Re: opening a store question in Selling

opening a store question

redneck2013au — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:17:53 GMT

I have a question for the many brains here as at this stage I only have 2 brain cells and they are chasing each other.

I'm looking intl opening a basic store. It says in the description you get 200 free FIXED PRICE items per month.

Can someone tell me the meaning of FIXED PRICE please.

My wife says it's a BIN and I say it's an ordinary auction. We don't use BIN .

I'd say we have a carton riding on this but till sales pick up a bit we just exchange IOU's lol.

Re: opening a store question

kopenhagen5 — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:22:15 GMT

You should know, the wife is always right.

Fixed price are only BIN. And it is only the listings that are free. You still pay Final Value Fees.

Also you are restricted to the number of listings when it's a new account so better to use the 40 free listings on a normal account and build up feedback first. Then maybe open a store.

Re: opening a store question

redneck2013au — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:26:10 GMT

your saying all those with a basic store and are paying 19.95 a month can only put 200 BIN on and no auctions?

we were thinking of upgrading but we do not use BIN. we do have over 1000 feedbacks though at 100%

Re: opening a store question

imastawka — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:30:28 GMT

If you sell in collectables you can also do auctions.

They are included in the 200. So you can do either/or. Or both.

Re: opening a store question

bigbrickshop — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:33:55 GMT

The Basic Store includes up to 200 free Fixed Price BIN listings in any category or Auction listings in a Collectables category.

Re: opening a store question

redneck2013au — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:35:56 GMT

well thank you all..my IOU's to my wife are stacking up..guess that ends the upgrade to a store...we have only done 1 BIN in 2 years at a customers request and we don't sell collectables. Everything is auction so I guess a store is out lol. Was a good thought while it lasted. Thanks

Re: opening a store question

redneck2013au — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:44:49 GMT

oops I put that in too quick..bless you bigbrickshop..i may have just got my IOU back..she sells in crafts section.so according to what you just put up she does qualify for 200 free listings as auctions..

Re: opening a store question

bigbrickshop — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 05:04:26 GMT

There's more info in the Seller Centre about Store subscriptions

http://sellercentre.ebay.com.au/ebay-for-business/about-store-packages

Re: opening a store question

cherry*135 — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 07:20:30 GMT

Auction insertion
fee
$1.50 (under $100)
$3.50 (over $100)
*Auctions within the Collectables category are included in the monthly free listing
entitlement for Stores sellers.

*The items have to be "collectable" and listed in specific categories, is that what that means?

e.g: If you sell new fabric in Crafts category those listings wouldn't be eligible?

Re: opening a store question

twyngwyn — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:06:21 GMT

anything in the 'craft' category is eligible for auction, where I mostly sell...see how many auctions I have going...but check the fvf...swings & roundabouts 🙂

Re: opening a store question

twyngwyn — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:08:26 GMT

http://sellercentre.ebay.com.au/ebay-for-business/about-store-packages

Re: opening a store question

twyngwyn — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:13:14 GMT

have a look at the fee illustrator

http://www.fees.ebay.com.au/feeweb/feeillustrator

Re: opening a store question

phorum_junkie* — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:27:29 GMT

If you would rather stick to auction format they why don't you have seperate ids and then you can list 40 inclusive auctions each month, you could even have 2 ids each increasing your total free auctions to 160. I have a store for 200 new items plus an id I use to sell second hand items at auction and another to sell as BIN with Best Offer so for my $19.99 monthly fee I have up to 280 listings.

Re: opening a store question

cherry*135 — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:37:40 GMT

@twyngwyn wrote:
anything in the 'craft' category is eligible for auction, where I mostly sell...see how many auctions I have going...but check the fvf...swings & roundabouts 🙂

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Is that within the free listings for stores though - if listing in Craft with the free listings. it can be listed as an auction or a BIN?