@davidc4430 wrote:
i have now ended all my items cept 1
i'm just not prepared to sell at the fvf ebay has set now
i may relist a few items but i will raise the prices to cover the increase in fvf
as i said in another thread, im happy to pay reasonable fvf's but going from $1 to where they are now, nope.
maybe if enough sellers do the same ebay will rethink the removal of the offer.
double the old offer to $2
tripple it to $3
i'd accept that
I don’t think enough sellers can be mobilised/motivated to do as you have done, certainly not in a co-ordinated manner.
I can’t see that offering $1 fvf, or even $2 or $3 fvf, would be viable in the long term.
Think about it, if I sold an item for $400 and only had to pay $1 fvf compared to around $40 then how is that sustainable for eBay? I know the argument is made that the fees are high and that Facebook and other platforms are cheaper, but on the $1 fvf weekends when someone sells an item for $8 they pay around 80cents fvf, yet the seller of a $400 item pays $1.
Posters have been complaining that removal of the $1 fvf on weekends is aimed at getting rid of small sellers. I do not agree. Some of the posters on these boards that have complained the most are the ones who have been saving hundreds or thousands on fvf. They have claimed to be small sellers, but have been buying to sell on a regular basis and have had hundreds of listings.
To me, a small seller is someone who doesn’t need more than 40 free listings per month and they sell items at less than about $10 to $20. In a good month, of the 40 free listings they might sell half, with total sales then in the $200 to $400 range. These sellers would not be adversely impacted by the removal of the $1 fvf weekend offer. Instead of paying $20 in fvf on 20 sold items they would be paying maximum of $40. I know it is double, but they never benefited by hundreds or thousands of dollars from the $1 fvf offer.
It would not be right if I sold hundreds of items to claim that I am small seller simply because some sellers on eBay sell tens of thousands of items.
I just checked my emails and couldn’t find the one where eBay tell me that casual sellers sold on average $780 worth of items last year. THAT, to me, tells me who eBay considers to be a small seller, not the ones selling thousands of dollars.
I posted about the ATO website on another thread the other day. I included links to ATO pages about how to determine whether the ATO class online selling as a hobby or as a business. One of the traits of being a business is that your activity is designed to maximise profit . . . something that $1 fvf offers does. So, those that are whinging about the loss of the weekend offer may well be classed by the ATO as running a business, with all the associated tax implications that go with that classification.
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