eBay raises seller's fees again - Happy New Year!

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Posted By: <b>Scott Elkins</b><p>If they don't stop, they will be close to the 15% auction house premiums. The only difference being on eBay, the card's owner has to do all the work themselves!

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Posted By: <b>Josh K.</b><p>8% - ridiculous.

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Posted By: <b>Chris</b><p>The 8% is for store items only. Auction fees are still the same.

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Posted By: <b>Josh K.</b><p>Good to know.

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Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>and trying to encourage larger item business listers to use ebay instead of other liquidation tools by dropping the final value fees for them. <br /><br />Lowering the % for the rich and jacking up the costs on the small fry; where have we seen that before <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> [lighten up--the bastard won]

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Posted By: <b>honus3415</b><p>....Wait for a cheap listing day and then list all 32,186 of your items as regular auctions.<br /><br />Oh wait.....I think someone might have come up with that one already.<br /><br />feebay....a great place for buyers but sure does stink for the sellers....what's next a "browsing fee"?

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Posted By: <b>Lee Behrens</b><p>Maybe Bill needed to get a raise. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />If he does half the job at his real job at Ebay as he does here he deserves it.<br /><br />I also missed it was for the ebay store, whew!!! Won't affect me much.<br /><br />Lee

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Posted By: <b>Bill Cornell</b><p>Amusing, Lee, but incorrect <img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14>. <br /><br />I think Honus' suggestion about separating buying from selling is a good one... we'll have to figure out how to do that.<br /><br />Bill

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Posted By: <b>Mark</b><p>I stumbled across this forum today while checking out the '33 Gehrig getting all the hype on ebay. I have to say, I'm quite impressed with the knowledge of the people involved on here. I consider myself a decent vintage collector, but I can never learn enough about the authenticity/history of vintage cards. I learned two things I didn't know about Goudey cards by spending five minutes in this great forum .... and you guys REALLY made my day when I took the time to read the post on eBay fee increases....<br /><br />I was so angry when I read the email notification from ebay that I neglected to notice that this ONLY applied to the store items. I'm assuming, of course, if a standard 7-day auction item appears in the store, this item isn't subject to the 8% fee, correct? <br /><br />I had already figured my increased-auction costs for 2005 based on the new fees .... but without it applying to standard auctions, I feel like you guys just gave me a much better (and profitable) day than the day I get my tax refunds back!! Looking forward to being a contributor.<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Mark