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Old 02-28-2017, 12:50 PM
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I have an anchor store subscription and it appears my fees will go up only .15%. They are giving me $150 per quarter in free packing supplies which is double what it was. Not sure I will be affected much at all...I take that back, I just now saw the change from 20% to 10% for Top Rated sellers. That's a load of crap.
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Not sure how many will be affected by this, but final value fees for sellers who do not meet eBay’s minimum performance standards will increase by 4 percentage points on items sold on or after May 1, 2017. To make sure you’re meeting eBay’s minimum selling requirements, follow our selling best practices and check your seller dashboard regularly.
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Old 02-28-2017, 01:41 PM
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These rate increases + discount reduction for TRS will cause me to give an added 1% of my total sales back to ebay in the from of FVF. In 2016, I cut my total ebay fees by 12% on slightly more sales than 2015 due to additional free listings offered for an anchor store subscription. These 2017 changes will cause me to give back half of those savings to ebay.

As with the ebay bucks changes, with all of the 8-10% promos (which fall during the week when many auctions end), I have earned more bucks at this point in the quarter than I have most other quarters when there were less frequent promos.

Hopefully these increases/discount reductions will be offset by more frequent free listings and this change will turn into a positive as has the changes in the ebay bucks program has for me this quarter.
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I don't know if eBay is hurting but going from a 20 % discount to a 10% discount is going to hurt me
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought these changes were absolutely ridiculous. Gives no incentive to be Top-Rated Plus vs. Top-Rated.
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Ebay also eliminated any incentive to offer free shipping.

If you have to have 90% tracking to be Top Rated, who can offer free shipping anymore?

So basically, they just changed the minimum shipping charge to $2.67 per item.

Which basically eliminates someone buying a single (inexpensive) card.

So once again, Ebay screws the little seller (because they won't have the volume to have enough inventory to sell enough cards to make it worthwhile to a buying of inexpensive stuff).

So Ebay pushes more museum pieces and more big scale sellers. Guess they think that's good for their costs structure.

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Ebay also eliminated any incentive to offer free shipping.

If you have to have 90% tracking to be Top Rated, who can offer free shipping anymore?

So basically, they just changed the minimum shipping charge to $2.67 per item.

Which basically eliminates someone buying a single (inexpensive) card.

So once again, Ebay screws the little seller (because they won't have the volume to have enough inventory to sell enough cards to make it worthwhile to a buying of inexpensive stuff).

So Ebay pushes more museum pieces and more big scale sellers. Guess they think that's good for their costs structure.

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I don't think that's actually a change.
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I don't think that's actually a change.

Well, the change is that it's now 95% and not 90%.
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What other venues do you sell? Amazon? does it get much traffic? How are the fees? any others?
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Just a continuing trend of ebay sticking their hands deeper into sellers pockets. They just keep raising fees and giving you tiny crap (supplies, listings) to supposedly offset the fee increases.
Ebay I don't want your tiny crap. I want reasonable fees.
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What other venues do you sell?
Amazon? does it get much traffic? Not for our type of items.
How are the fees? HIGH
Ebay knows they have the market cornered. They can just keep squeezing.
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Ebay also eliminated any incentive to offer free shipping.

If you have to have 90% tracking to be Top Rated, who can offer free shipping anymore?

So basically, they just changed the minimum shipping charge to $2.67 per item.

Which basically eliminates someone buying a single (inexpensive) card.

So once again, Ebay screws the little seller (because they won't have the volume to have enough inventory to sell enough cards to make it worthwhile to a buying of inexpensive stuff).

So Ebay pushes more museum pieces and more big scale sellers. Guess they think that's good for their costs structure.

Cheers,
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I just build the shipping into my price and offer free shipping.

That way nobody can complain about it and honestly it may make somebody who's super-cheap pick mine over someone else's who's around the same price, but charging for shipping.

It does kill the people who are selling cheap singles on there, but honestly that should be something that's sold on COMC or elsewhere that's specifically geared for that.

Again, the lowering of the discount for Top-Rated Plus down to the same thing as Top-Rated is dumb. It removes the incentive to attain that higher level by offering 30-Day returns which is stupid to begin with.
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I just build the shipping into my price and offer free shipping.

That way nobody can complain about it and honestly it may make somebody who's super-cheap pick mine over someone else's who's around the same price, but charging for shipping..
I think you have it backwards. Super-cheap people and regular people who look for the best price usually do just that - pick the best price. They hardly bother to look at shipping.

Good examples are the sellers who sell individual cards at $0.99 each with over $2.00 shipping. They sell a ton, even singles, and make profit from the shipping more than the cards.
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