SORRY BUT I HAVE TO CLOSE MY STORE 14 SEPT I CANT AFFORD IT

[beanishells]

I am closing down.... I wont get free listings on this ID but I can use my hubbys and my other ones. I will go to the other site...just made $30 on there and sent two 3 kg bags of books off. Its slower yes but its a good place to park my listings while I use the free ones.

I was going to close down at the end of the year anyway...my health is not good and I cant keep on. This way, it will slow down for me and I can relax a bit.

I dont buy my items wholesale...I am not a business...so I actually  make very little. Its always been a hobby for me, a way to pass the time because I cant ever go out to work again and I was bored with just reading, watching telly etc.

Now I havent the energy. I think the fee hike is an insult...sorry ebay but thats what I think..>You have raised the store fee twice since I opened my store but THIS TIME its a huge increase and we are going to all feel it.

Why are you not loyal to the hobby sellers too? I know I have made you and paypal a lot of money over the years off every single thing I have sold here.

I am sorry but I am going to the other site. I cannot take all this holding out your hand for my precious dollars anymore.

I have nothing against ebay, I just have something against all the fees... on the other site its FREE to list and you only pay 2 % FVF.

Ebay has millions of people paying fees and I dont beleive for one second that ebay cant afford to give us a break . Why get us all to open a store and then say, sorry, we want business people, not  YOU to own a store.

If you look at my feedback I have had barely a complaint, its all been good so its not like I and others like me are not delivering good service.

Sorry about the long ramble...I have just had it so in two weeks, I am closing. All my titles of all my items are going to say that too.

So goodbye to the good customers who have ebayed with me, it was fun while it lasted. Since I was made a powerseller, without even asking if I wanted to be one, i cant have the free listings...so.... I will not be using this one again it seems and its a shame when I have built up my feedback as i have. Another thing I am very sad about.

Some of you can afford to keep going, but I cant.

Beani

[phorum_junkie*]

Twenty five bucks a MONTH :_|

[thesoulyearns]

All the best, beani...

"You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em..."

[davewil1964]

People like beani and me didn't get any listing or FV fee reductions, pj.

That's the point. For booksellers it's two increases with no offsetting benefit.

[phorum_junkie*]

Didn't realise beannie was a bookseller.

I have to agree that selling general, run of the mill books is probably never going to be viable on ebay in the future unless you are selling other things too. Books are so cheap here in the UK and Europe as there is no price fixing that coupled with the increase in ebooks even the big guns are going to find it increasingly difficult.

Ebay is a great place to buy out of print and rare books and sometimes bulk lots but I am sure I am like a lot of other avid readers who have gone over to ebooks almost exclusively now.

For 'real' books I have always waited until I am back home here in the UK to buy most of my tomes, they were just too expensive in Aus even on sale, I rarely find a book I want to read that I don't already own in op shops lol.

[superscanner4]

I had a look at one of the other sites that I hadn't heard of, that someone mentioned on another thread, and it seems to be swamped with fake LV handbags!  Not a good sign.

[koalablue12]

Good Luck Beanie, Put your feet up and have a well deserved rest, :-x

[putney32]

What"s the "other place"?

it is against ebay rules to mention the name of non-ebay selling sites, however, stop andthink, if you have never heard of other australian on-line auction sites, how many buyers do you reckon HAVE heard of them???

from what I remember from when I did try listing over there...ZERO.

and they do not do ANY advertising to promote themselves eithr

[***super_nova***]

if you have never heard of other australian on-line auction sites, how many buyers do you reckon HAVE heard of them???

i think I know one person who once bought something over there ;but he wont admit to it 🙂

[lyndal1838]

I've not only heard of them but I have bought from them.:^O

Everything was good with the transactions but not much choice and a lot of very small sellers rather than big sellers with lots of choice.

[judyztreasurez]

I've not only heard of them but I have bought from them.:^O

Everything was good with the transactions but not much choice and a lot of very small sellers rather than big sellers with lots of choice.

Yes, I agree. Unless the other sites improve dramatically I can't really see that they are a threat to eBay

*waves* to Lyndal 🙂