eBay

flyhooks4less · ‎03-02-2019

Hi All,

Whatever happened to the new store types ebay was planning to roll out last fall?

I can't seem to find any information on them.

Thanks

reallynicestamps · ‎03-02-2019

There is a mini-Store available to US sellers on dotCOM and they changed the number of "free" listings in the top level Stores.

ypdc_dennis · ‎03-02-2019

@flyhooks4less wrote:
Whatever happened to the new store types ebay was planning to roll out last fall?

The new stores were rolled out for ebay.com last year -- supposedly are coming to ebay.ca at some undefined point in time (2019 was the last estimate I've seen).

ebay.com has 5 store types (all prices in USA dollars)

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/selling-fees/store-fees?id=4122

ebay.CA has 3 store types (all prices in Canadian dollars)

https://www.ebay.ca/pages/help/sell/storefees.html

Overall, the Canada side is the cheaper option for fees. This may change when the new store levels arrive.

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lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎03-02-2019

Maybe on dot ca the option to purchase a 2nd store (250 listings GTC) under the same sellers name for half price? 1000 listings is very likely more than your average seller would need to have access to. And the listings you don't use you get a refund for. Sorry!!! Shouldn't have had the 3rd coffee with Baileys today.

-Lotz

ypdc_dennis · ‎03-02-2019

Listing jump points between store levels.

Assuming you only list on one site, sell only using BIN, never use auction and do not sell in the media (books/dvds/etc) category.

eBay.CA

Basic store at $25/month makes sense when you have 133 listings every month.

Jump to Premium store at $75/month when you have 875 listings every month.

Jump to Anchor at $350/month when you have 4000 listings every month.

Plus all stores have discounted FVF rates and a maximum fee cap of $250 (this can lower the jump point for a Basic store, depends on your sales volume).

eBay.COM

Starter store at $7/month makes sense when you have 73 listings every month.

Jump to Basic store at $28/month when you have 193 listings every month.

Jump to Premium at $75/month when you have 550 listings every month.

Jump to Anchor at $350/month when you have 4500 listings every month.

Jump to Enterprise at $3000/month when you have 70000 listings every month.

The Starter store does not have discounted FVF rates.

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Media (books/dvds/cds) are treated differently on .CA versus .COM

Stores on .CA have a FVF of 0.915% versus 12% on .COM (non-stores it is 10% versus 12%).

Media also (for now) costs less to list on .CA versus .COM once you have used up your free listings.

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lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎03-02-2019

@ypdc_dennis @tryubik-useonlyasdirected

If a seller has, for an example a store that covers them for 250 listings shouldn't anything over be at the seller's discretion? When I go to the grocery store they aren't allowed to add extra items in my shopping cart at their discretion. Maybe an off switch when it reaches 250?

Similarly, if a buyer's quoted/paid postage is 20.00 we can't send them a bill for 20.00 more because we want to.

-Lotz

ypdc_dennis · ‎03-02-2019

@lotzofuniquegoodies wrote:
If a seller has, for an example a store that covers them for 250 listings shouldn't anything over be at the seller's discretion? When I go to the grocery store they aren't allowed to add extra items in my shopping cart at their discretion. Maybe an off switch when it reaches 250?

I do not follow your logic on this.

eBay states that GTC items automatically renew unless you say otherwise -- there are lots of things like setup like that. Grocery stores are only that way when you have a monthly grocery delivery plan.

eBay stores have a basic "free" amount -- if you do not want to exceed that -- then you list only that many items.

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But your idea of being able to set a level to stop automatic relisting cutoff is a good one -- it does not need to be tied to a store's "free" listing level.

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lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎03-02-2019

@ypdc_dennis

It's been suggested by others and noted in previous announcements that there would be seeing additional levels added but it seems to be very slow in actually happening. My issue is anything over 250 is at my expense so they should be at my choosing only.

-Lotz

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎03-02-2019

***we would be seeing***

-Lotz

flyhooks4less · ‎03-03-2019

Thanks for the info.

ypdc_dennis · ‎03-03-2019

@lotzofuniquegoodies wrote:
It's been suggested by others and noted in previous announcements that there would be seeing additional levels added but it seems to be very slow in actually happening.

The additional levels were 100 (starter) and 100,000 (enterprise) plus additional free listings (for enterprise) in lots of 10,000 and 50,000.