I wonder if everybody is forgetting that it's just been a few years since Ebay essentially killed off more then half it's auction business chasing the Amazon model, and killing any incentives for sellers to offer auctions over BIN's by exponentially raising the commission rates for auctions to the same rate as BIN's.
It used to be a sliding scale from around 9% to 2.5%, depending on how much the item sold for, and you only had to get above 10 bucks for the scale to start sliding downward. Now they take 10% across the board (not taking into account TRS discounts), including shipping. The cost to auction a $100 item nearly tripled overnight.
Drove a lot of the established auction consignment sellers (especially the smaller ones) completely out of the business. A lot of the ones that stuck around chose to go with a BIN model instead.
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