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"Well, my fees are going down"
I am glad for you.
I received an email from eBay.,com earlier today stating:
"Great news for you! Based on your recent selling activity, your fees will be 21% lower than they are today!"
Posting rules do not allow me to adequately and candidly answer that message.
Since I retired last year, I only used "free listings" (50 each month plus promotions). How I can save 21% from FREE considering FVF for auction listings are going up from 9% to 10%.
Bill... Bill... Bill... where are you hiding?
Add-To-Cart feature is currently only available for US based items on ebay.com, are you planning to add it also to ebay.ca and for Canadian items ?
What will be difference between Add To Cart and new 2013 Buy Now where item is not sold until paid ? Isn't one of them becoming redundant ?
Hello dipmicro,
1) Cart is definitely something we've been wanting to bring to Canada, we're working on it but I don't have an ETA for that yet. Just as a precision though, the US Cart will handle any items available on eBay.com, even those listed on eBay.ca.
2) Cart will work the same as it does now under the new BIN rules, with the difference that eligible items will not be secured for the buyer until a payment has been issued.
Comparison of 2012 vs 2013 fixed price listing fees.
2013 fees highlighted by green (lower) or red (higher).
Selling without store and with Basic store is getting cheaper across board. The new break point between Basic to Premium is 350 items and this point is cheaper after May 2013 than both stores today.
Premium store is getting slightly more expensive almost across the board. Above 1900 items it's cheaper to switch to Anchor, breaking point is around 12000 items now, so this is significant change. Everyone with more than 800 items it going to pay slightly more for listing regardless if they stay in Premium or switch to Anchor. However, this will be offset by 2% lower FVF.
Overall, I think the fixed listing fees changes are positive, rewarding sellers and increasing cost to spammers. Auctions have extreme reduction in listing fee (unless you are selling $0.99 items) and are big questionmark at this point.
" I talked to an eBay rep over the phone and was confirmed that it was only 50 free listings per selling account, no matter what site they were posted on."
I think that rep gave you the wrong answer. Most likely someone in the Phillippines having no idea where Canada is. 😞
I have been listing auctions on both eBay.ca and eBay.com and have received free listings on both
If you click on "Selling Manager" you will see how many "free listings" have been used on each site and how many "free listings" are remaining.
For example From Selling Manager (at right margin):
Free Auction-style Insertion Fees 50/0
List Auction-style FREE with any start price. Plus add a Buy It Now for FREE.
Start: 02/28/13 21:00:00 PST
End: 03/31/13 21:00:00 PDT
50/0 = 50 used 0 left
23/27 = 23 used 27 left
Questions
It looks like there are not any changes in standards for top rated sellers on .com or .ca...is that correct?
To confirm...If we go from a monthly store subscription to a yearly one..we will still be paying month by month..not a year ahead of time....right?
It's interesting that for basic and premium store our monthly fee goes up unless we get a yearly subscription but the anchor store monthly rate goes down by $100 even if staying on a month to month subscription.
Feeback will be removed if the seller wins a claim but the claim has to have been filed on ebay, not paypal. So my question is...when can a claim be filed on ebay? I think that the buyer has to actually purchase it while on the .com site? But does it matter which site the item was originally listed on or which site the buyer or seller is registered on?
Hi pjcdn2005,
It looks like there are not any changes in standards for top rated sellers on .com or .ca...is that correct?
Correct.
To confirm...If we go from a monthly store subscription to a yearly one..we will still be paying month by month..not a year ahead of time....right?
Right, the only difference with a yearly subscription is that you get a lower fee in exchange for the 1 year commitment.
Feeback will be removed if the seller wins a claim but the claim has to have been filed on ebay, not paypal. So my question is...when can a claim be filed on ebay? I think that the buyer has to actually purchase it while on the .com site? But does it matter which site the item was originally listed on or which site the buyer or seller is registered on?
You are right again. Buyers who purchase from eBay.com are protected under eBay Buyer Protection, as opposed to buyers on eBay.ca being covered by the PayPal Purchase Protection. It doesn't matter on which site the listing was created.
"Perhaps the shopping cart will solve this problem if it ever comes to eBay.ca? "
Unfortunately, not really.
Shopping cars, all over the internet, suffer from a difficult disease:
Shopping cart abandonment
Take a look: http://baymard.com/lists/cart-abandonment-rate
The problem is simple: folks start buying "stuff" from one site, put them in the "cart", intend to continue shopping later or compare prices elsewhere and abandon the shopping cart.
In the meantime, an item that could have been sold remains on the seller's shelf. 😞
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