ebay's New Fee Structure

[Tony Gordon]

It's 9% with a store, 10% without. Also, with the cheapest store subscription you get 150 free listings a month, as opposed to 50 free listings without a store. There is also a difference in insertion fee between the store & non-store listing. It looks like eBay wants all sellers to have a store. I am wondering why?

[D. Bergin]

OK, here to put it in B&W. If you just owned a basic store subscription and run auctions on Ebay. Here are the present fees:

Basic Store monthly fee:

$15.95 per month



Final value fees for auction-style Store listings.

Total amount of the sale.


Final value fee
(per item)

$0.01–$50
7.5% of the total amount of the sale



$50.01–$1,000
$3.75 for the first $50
+
4% of the remaining balance up to $1,000



Over $1,000
$41.75 for the first $1,000
+
2% of the remaining balance over $1,000



But hey, here's the good news. You get to list 150 items for free. Thanks Ebay. Just hope you don't actually sell any of those listings, and you've gotten a bargain for your dollar.

Insertion fees for auction-style Store listings

Starting or reserve price


Insertion fee
(per listing)

$0.01–$0.99

$0.10



$1–$9.99
$0.25



$10–$24.99
$0.50



$25–$49.99
$0.75



$50–$199.99
$1



$200 or more
$2




Based on the above, at the 9% across the board this is now going to move to. Not counting shipping fees, Paypal fees and other misc. The Cost of Auctioning a card or any other collectible for $2000 on Ebay, just went from $61.75 to $180.00.

I'd wager, most of the bigger guys who actually run auctions, like Probstein, PWCC, Henry Yee, JonStats, SCGaynor..........along with the smaller guys.....aren't going to be happy with this at all.

[RobertGT]

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[insidethewrapper]

Ebay has a "fee calculator" to compare the old fee structure with the new fee structure.

Basic Store : $ 1000 BIN item with Free Shipping ( with 20% FVF discount) was $50.20 now $ 72.00 = + $ 21.80 in fees

Non-Store : $ 1000 BIN item with Free Shipping ( with 20% FVF discount) was $ 50.50 now $80.00 = + $ 29.50 in fees