EBAY losing money.

[mr-vanilla]

When will ebay realise they are losing money by charging a listing fee. I have burnt through my 30 free listings and I and ebay have done nicely in fees / profit. I now have to wait a week or so for my free listing thing to reset so I can list more.

I (and I recon many others) refuse to pay the rediculous listing fees. No big deal ...while I am sitting here waiting ...nothing is selling and ebay / paypal are making nothing.

Wake up ebay ...free to list is the way to go. You will make more in the long run.

[digital*ghost]

Once upon a time, everyone paid for their listings, except on the odd occasion eBay ran a promotion for free auction listings when the start price was 99c. The people liked free listings and asked eBay for more, so eBay granted this wish but said to compensate, they were going to introduce third-party advertising on free listings and raise the FVF. The people were moderately happy.

After a while, the people decided that they needed more free listings. eBay once again said ok, your wish is my command, but in return we need to put third-party advertising on all listings, raise FVF again, and get rid of the sliding scale, which used to reduce the FVF percentage the more an item sold for, and charge a little bt more for the non-free listings. Three times as much, in fact.

The moral of the story is....stop asking for free stuff, it costs everyone more in the long run. 😉

[davewil1964]

Not me. I'm better off. But I sell media, to which different rules have always applied.

[digital*ghost]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

Not me. I'm better off. But I sell media, to which different rules have always applied.

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Did books never have a sliding scale FVF structure and always had third party advertising on their listings (in particular, the big flash ones under the seller info)?

I also forgot to mention when the free listings were upped from 30 to 40, the FVF cap was upped from $50 to $200.

Besides, stop ruining my be careful what you wish for cautionary tale with individual facts. 

[imastawka]

Besides, stop ruining my be careful what you wish for cautionary tale with individual facts. 

         

[davewil1964]

Sorry, ma'am.

And I don't see the ads, because I sensibly use an ad blocker.

* Hangs head in shame *

[phorum_junkie*]

My turnover on my store id and auction id is about the same as last year, my fees are considerably less.

I pay fifty bucks a month for 200 store listings and I never go over the 40 item limit on my auction id, if I want to list more then I do it with another id so can have another 40 if I wish.

Ads, do ebay have ads?