Store packages

[fantomv]

Hello, i cannot find anywhere to contact ebay by email so hopefully someone can help me here 🙂 i am looking at starting a buisness in selling comics online, i see that they come under collectables so there is no listing fee, a standard free listing allows 40 items auction or buy it now, the basic package says 200 fixed prices, does this mean unlimeted auctions or 200 fixed price only and no auctions? if a store can only sell items and not have auctions then i cannot see my plan working, any help would be much appreciated. thanks Nick

[twyngwyn]

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

[digital*ghost]

Comics actually come under the media main category (Books, Magazines), which means they won't qualify for free insertion fees as an auction when you have a store. The listing insertion fee is 5c after the free allocation is used (200 free fixed price / buy it now listings), and you'd be charged the standard $1.50 insertion fee for an auction regardless of how many free listings were still available as part of the standard allocation. 

The FVF goes down from 9.9% to 9.5% for media with a basic store (charged on both item price and postage), but if auctions are a better format for your items, you'd probably be better off without the store as that small break is not going to make up for having to pay $20 per month for the store, plus $1.50 insertion fees (presuming all start prices will be under $100). 

[fantomv]

I guess a store wont be any good then as most comics get listed for $2 - $3 each, buy the time they take 9% and the $1.50 insertion fee, i will be making nothing, when i list comics on the free ebay it costs me nothing for an auction currently and they just take the 10% 😕

[digital*ghost]

If you're looking to expand beyond 40 listings a month, I would suggest perhaps testing a few as Buy It Now for a while and see how they go, that should at least give you some indication whether subscribing to a store and having primarily fixed price listings is going to be worthwhile (without a store, the first 40 listings in any format are free).

[putney32]

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@fantomv wrote:

I guess a store wont be any good then as most comics get listed for $2 - $3 each, buy the time they take 9% and the $1.50 insertion fee, i will be making nothing, when i list comics on the free ebay it costs me nothing for an auction currently and they just take the 10% 😕

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remember the fvf is on the invoice total now. so a $2 comic with $3.50 postage gets charged the fvf on 5.50 Plus Paypal fees !

not much left of your $2 sale is there?

[peels_deals]

I think ebay and auspost has raised the bar so far that most Aussie mum and pop sellers will be scared off. Which will probably also lead to diminishing sales as sellers are often buyers too but ebay doesn't aknowledge that and has wiped out many Aussie cheap and cheerful sellers in recent weeks which will impact through the website in coming months. I have seen this dynamic before and it is brutal. As for serious Aussie business people who sell through ebay, I would imagine they are not amused by any of it.

None of it makes sense unless ebay is stealing the GST componant of the auspost postage cost. So if that theory is right ebay has savaged their core business in Australia so as to siphon Aussie postage GST to their swiss bank account.

Us aussies are complete suckers for not levying GST at international businesses. Our politicians are complicit to this hijacking of the Australian economy and should be hung for treason!!! This is the most serious of issues and is inviting multi national tax dodgers/thieves to come here and rape our economy and decimate our business landscape.

We may have sailed through the GFC but I assure it is all downhill from here.