What's involved in downgrading store account?

[musicyouneed]

I am considering changing/downgrading my store account to a basic.  My anniversary date is in August.  Has anyone done this?  What is involved and how to do it.  What is your advice on it.

[ricarmic]

Assuming you've signed up for the annual commitment cheaper monthly rate, you shouldn't stop till near the renewal date as you pay 1/3 of the remaining term when you terminate, or something like that.

That's why I'm waiting till May to try my convert my store from .CA to .COM because my renewal is in June and the convert process is to close .COM store and reopen as .CA store and pray that all my grandfathered stuff stays going....more research required before then but I have bigger things to worry about in the meantime....

[musicyouneed]

My renewal date was Sept 1 and as I can figure that if I downgraded this month it would be Jan to Aug - 8 months x 59.95 a month = $479.60 less cancellation fee of 1/3 owing which I calculated as $159.86.   For 8 months at 19.95, I would be paying $159.60 instead of the $479.60.  $159.60 + 159.86 = $319.46.  My net savings would be $160.14.  

Have I got that right?

[reallynicestamps]

There are a couple of other minor perks with the larger stores which might be worth factoring in.

The quarterly coupon for branded shipping materials.

Perhaps a lowered FVF fee?

The ability to hold off feedback for seven days?

And ricarmic mentioned the better customer service.

But it sounds as if, since eBay makes policy to benefit eBay not to make members happy, fees from sales (possibly including Managed Payments) are high enough that eBay can afford to in effect lower fees for Store subscribers.

If an anchor store included 10,000 listings for $350 that was  3.5c a listing.

And a Basic Store allowed 350 listings at 5.7c each.

Now that Basic Store allows 10,000 listings for only .0019c. We're talking mil rates for subscribers.

And the quarterly coupon, which in spite of not quite covering the items I normally buy, reduces the price to less than that of unbranded shipping products is still a decent deal if over-described.

[pjcdn2005]

There are a couple of other minor perks with the larger stores which might be worth factoring in.

The quarterly coupon for branded shipping materials.

That coupon is available to all store levels on .ca.   It isn't available on the starter store which is only available on .com

Perhaps a lowered FVF fee?

As far as I know, the fvf is the same for all stores on .ca

The ability to hold off feedback for seven days?

That isn't store related.  A negative feedback can't be left for a powerseller until 7 days after the sale.

[busybeas_books]

Clicking on the 'my account' then 'subscriptions' links will show your store level and renewal date. There is a 'change subscription' link there which then allows you to pick another store level. Click the 'select and review' box and you will see the early termination fee. For me as of today (Dec 11), with a June 1 renewal date, going from anchor to basic or premium I'll owe a few cents under $500. That's a lot, but I'll be saving over $200 a month for those 6 months. 

From what I understand (need clarification on this though) is that if you change store levels, it won't actually change until your next invoice date (mine are on the 16th of the month) and at that time you still owe the higher store level (for the previous month that you changed it in) with the lower rate starting the following month.