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Anchor stores pay $0.10 insertion fee for aution listings and $0.05 for fixed price listings once they have used the first 2,500 free listings.
Currently anchor stores pay $0.03 listing fees for fixed price listings.
"Then I will also save 4% of selling fees"
I wish it were that easy. Unfortunately, you will need to look more closely at the new fee table.
Looking at some of your listings, your "Back in Black wholesale lot" selling at $330 currently costs you FVF of $6.50 (13%) on the first $50 and $14.00 (5%) on the balance, for a total of $ 20.50
Under the new fee schedule, the fee will be a flat 9% of the total $29.70
This represents a net increase in FVF of $9.20 or 44.9%
So while FVF will be lower on low priced items. they will be higher on higher priced items.
As far as listing fees are concerned, it is more difficult to evaluate. For the last year, eBay has regularly offered "free listing" promotions which have been widely used. Under the new fee schedule, it appears there is no need for these promotion for most sellers.
To properly see the difference between old and new, one needs to include the actual effect of these promotions for each seller. Personally, with two User IDs and no store, I have not paid eBay one penny in listing fees this year (thousands of listings), using the basic free auction listing (50 per ID per site) and timely promotions of both auction and fixed price formats. There cannot be any saving in the new fee schedule for me as my listing fees were FREE and FVF are going up.
Your mileage may vary. Check the numbers very carefully before jumping to conclusion.
One thing to keep in mind: the changes will net eBay more money. That money comes from sellers fees in one shape or another. While a few will benefit, others will pay for it. 😞
"would caution you to look at the impact of the flat rate % on your more expensive items. "
Valid point.
It is possible for a seller to save fees on 90% of his transactions yet, end up paying more fees overall.
If one sells 9 items on which the fees are lowered by $0.20 for example, one saves $1.80
Then on the tenth item (high value) the fees are increased by $2.00
Overall = nine items with lower fees; one item with higher fees = higher fees overall.
That is the problem when dealing with percentages.
With the new fee sctructure, lower fee percentages apply to small amounts (small dollar savings) while higher fee percentages apply to larger, often much larger amounts (large dollar increases).
As stated earlier, we should all keep in mind that the fee changes are not "revenue neutral". They are meant for eBay to raise more revenue. And eBay will.
