Hi there antique furniture Sellers,

I am an antique furniture seller.

In Featured Store I will be able to list 200 pieces of furniture in one category for free from 1 May. At a glance it seems that there will be a saving for me on fixed price items: 200 x $0.20 = $40 a month. Good saving !

However, on a closer look, in order to list 200 items I have to find them first and then buy them. I wonder if there is a person in Australia who can find 200 pieces of quality antique furniture a month and who can afford to purchase 200 pieces of antique furniture a month so they can be consequently listed and sold ?

An average small eBay store like mine can find and list on average 8-10 pieces of antique furniture a month at the most. So the actual saving on free listings is: 10x $0.20 = $2.

An average small eBay store like mine can sell 3-4 pieces of furniture a month.

For arguments sake lets assume average selling price is $1500.

FVF on 4 x 8.5% of $1500 = $510

I will save $2 for listings and will pay FVF $510 a month from 1 May= $508

Currenntly FVF are 7.9% capped at $100.

Currently I am paying $2 for listings and FVF $400 (4x $100) for the same pieces = $402

I will be on average out of pocket $106 a month from 1 May in comparison with the current structure based on the above example.

How is the new structure going to encourage me to continue trading on eBay ?