Power Seller - only for ebay's benefit!

[mowermum]

I haven't even used up my 30 free listings for the month and ebay have decided to give me Power Seller status.  The benefit to me:  none.  The benefit to ebay:  I pay additional fees.

One more month of free listings and I would have completed my garage sale.  For those of you who want to criticise me for whingeing about losing free listings just think first about the extra business you probably gain from us garage sale people making ebay a more interesting place for buyers. 

To ebay, your fees are high enough and I think you can afford to continue giving casual sellers, like myself, the free listings because there are benefits to keeping us around. You did double your profits in the second quarter this year, it's not like you need the extra cash.

I'm not going to start a new ID just to sell a few more items, and I'm not going to sell any more because it just feels like another kick in the teeth from ebay where its all for the benefit of the buyer.

[mowermum]

Put your coffee down - the same type of key has sold for $75 previously so I think mine's a bargain.

[mowermum]

Anything below the last item that was bid on I have removed but  I thought I should honour those bids.  You actually placed your bid before I was given PS status.  However, if you want to cancel please do it through the right channels.  I have a few more which I was going to hang on to.

One positive about my ebay selling experience has been talking to the Holden lovers about my dad's time working with GMH and it has been a pleasure passing on my memorabilia to others who would get as much satisfaction out of it as my dad did.

As far as the other goes, Power Seller satus to me is just a gimmick.  They sucked me in by giving me free listings, I fell for it and used them up, and without any notice, they take them away and charge me more.  Bit like a company who puts up their prices because of the carbon tax.

[i-b-a-mad-loco]

 I am sorry but I am not the sharpest tool in the shed and to be honest I don't know how much it costs to list an item but if its 50c why don't you just charge $24.95 to post the vintage board games 😮

[jensmanchester-australia]

Anything below the last item that was bid on I have removed but  I thought I should honour those bids.  You actually placed your bid before I was given PS status.  However, if you want to cancel please do it through the right channels.  I have a few more which I was going to hang on to.

One positive about my ebay selling experience has been talking to the Holden lovers about my dad's time working with GMH and it has been a pleasure passing on my memorabilia to others who would get as much satisfaction out of it as my dad did.

As far as the other goes, Power Seller satus to me is just a gimmick.  They sucked me in by giving me free listings, I fell for it and used them up, and without any notice, they take them away and charge me more.  Bit like a company who puts up their prices because of the carbon tax.

Why would you cancel the items you had listed?

The FVF's aren't going to be any different whether you are a Powerseller or not - unless they are really high priced items.

If you had listed those items before you became a PS they would have had no listing fee.

If you listed them since you would have already paid the listing fee.

You could have let them just run and maybe pick up a few more sales.

[mowermum]

Ebay puts their prices up, I put my prices up, sellers start to disappear because they don't think ebay is affordable any longer.

[mowermum]

Sorry, that should have been buyers.

[phorum_junkie*]

So you really think you will make a lot less profit if you have to pay 50c per item more in listing fees?

Selling just one item for $50 would cover the listing fees for 100 items so if you sold 101 items you would make exactly the same as if you were not getting a free ride.

Do you think ebay should do away with all listing fees? If not where do you think the cut off should come? Presumably at a level higher than anything you are likely to achieve!

[sexy*harley*chick]

I really dont get post 11.

Just no pleasing some sellers, they complain when they dont sell and they complain when they do sell.

Why not open a shop then as your doing so well, its a lot less than paying for auctions.

[collectablesatwarrnambool]

i take a different point of view.i have no problems with the fees etc.

infact they are very competive compared to an auction house.

I think it the new power seller regulations cheapens ebay.

back when i first started on ebay(on another i.D) you had to work very very hard to achieve power seller status.

You had to sell alot per month .To say it shows respect confidence etc now.i disagree.

Well for people who do not realise how hard it was to even become one 10 years ago.

Now the power sellers in the past well they deserved respect and the consumer confidence.

it is far  to easy to become one now.So this cheapens it.

Many will disagree with me.

But this is one part that is overlooked in the power seller argument.

To much talk about fees, not enough talk about the down grade of power seller rules.

Being a power seller before was a mark of respect and trust and very very hard work.

Just for the record a could never acheive power seller status before it was very hard to get.

[phorum_junkie*]

Now the power sellers in the past well they deserved respect and the consumer confidence.

I beg to differ, PS status has never meant anything other than selling a lot and in fact it meant a lot less in the past as many unscrupulous sellers only managed to keep their status by using retaliatory negs to get buyers to withdraw feedback which would have had them losing their PS status.