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watch_boy - "are sellers required to submit the tax dollars that they collect to Revenue Canada?"
No. They are not registered to do so and they do not collect the tax.
The tax collection and remittance to CRA is done by Pitney Bowes acting as forwarding agent. For more details about the program:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/shipping-globally.html
Pitney Bowes is a public company, based in the USA, with a market capitalization of more than US$3 Billions.
"Note to ebay: I would really appreciate it if you could put ALL of the information we need in an update on one cohesive, easy to read page"
http://www2.ebay.com/aw/ca/201303.shtml#2013-03-19130731
It is all there. There is a lot to read and many policy and fee changes are involved. I am well experienced with eBay and it took me several hours to understand the impacts of all teh changes.
Auction-style listings with Buy It Now:
To keep the unique eBay Auction-style listings a great attraction for buyers, starting May 1, when you add Buy It Now to any Auction-style listing, it must be at least 30% over your listing's start price.
"Why do certain categories get better listing or fvf deals like DVD's, books, computers etc, what is the reasoning (or lack thereof) behind this concept?"
I sell in a category (postage stamps) with the highest fees, like most categories on eBay (10% without a store; 9% with a store). Some categories have much lower fees. Why? So eBay is competitive with other sites such as Amazon, etc...
"are they considering good until cancelled rollovers as "created" each month?"
YES.
"listing" refers to starting a listing on eBay, regardless of format or duration.
GTC are 30 day listings renewed automatically every 30 days.
If you have 5,000 GTC listings, it means you start 5,000 every 30 days.
If you start them all on the first of January, March, May, July, August, Octover or December, the results would be 10,000 new listings that month! (1st and 31st of the month), 😞
eBay often uses the expression "new listings" or "create listings" trying to leave the false impression that listings will all sell during the original period. All their calculations seem to be based on that assumption.
We all know that is bull.
On average, across all categories on eBay, less than one auction listing in three attracts even one bid, resulting in more than two auction listings in three not selling. And many of those attracting bids are selling for very little (auction often started at $1 or less).
As far as fixed price listings are concerned, the last information offered by eBay is that it takes - on average - fourteen (14) weeks to sell an item at fixed price. Personally I find that optimistic as, based on my own experiences over the years, it takes much longer than fourteen weeks - on average - to sell my "stuff" from a fixed price listing.
You can check how fast things sell in the category of your choice by viewing "completed" listings. Sort by highest price first.
Of course your experience may vary depending on the demand for your items and the price you are willing to sell them at. The lower the price, the faster the sale. However, if you are more concerned with net profit, you will not mind if it takes some time to sell. 🙂
I would rather take six months to sell an item at $50 and make a $25 profit than selling it in a week or a month for $27.50 and only make $2.50 profit.
Sales do not pay my bills in retirement; profits do. 🙂
PS - when looking at isis1313's 5,200+ listings - all nice stuff - and about 2,000 sales a year, it does not take a genius to figure the relatively slow turnover on eBay for adequately priced fixed price listings.
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