Will sellers continue to sell on Ebay under the new EBAY MANAGED PAYMENTS??

[D. Bergin]

I got the notice to migrate by July 15th. I don't like it, but I don't have much of a choice.

Ebay is selling it as a cost savings, but it's quite the opposite.

Raw numbers on the surface bring the %'s, just slightly below the combined Ebay and Paypal fees.

Those numbers ignore that Ebay is now going to start charging a final value fee, on top of the processing fee for state sales tax collected.

A sale to a bidder in Alabama, might cost you a bit more then a sale to a bidder in New Hampshire. Won't cost Ebay any more money though. Higher the sales tax rate, the more money they make off your back.

It also ignores how many sellers pay for their bills. By taking the fees directly out of each sale, it skips the step of sellers paying their bill with a debit or credit card and getting a couple points back on your bill on the backend.

Also, like mentioned above, I'm not sure how it will affect bidding, when some buyers/casual sellers aren't looking at their Paypal stash as much, to spend their disposable income now.

Don't like it, but it doesn't really matter to Ebay I guess. Plenty of evidence everywhere they don't care about regular people, including the disgusting story circulating about the ECommercebytes folks.

Oh well..........