Why is EBAY charging 35 cent insertion fees???
garnettstyle
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Been getting free listings for years. Now all of a sudden, they are charging me 35 cents every time a item gets automatically relisted after 30 days. So they are charging the fee every 30 days. What is going on?
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For me it rolls over and eats up the 50 free listings they give you per month. So basically you are getting the ability to carry 50 items month to month without fees. Carry more than 50 and you will pay. I think its an effort to curtail stagnant inventory that sits un-bought at high prices, by placing a financial incentive to move it inside of 30 days.
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Gotta to end auctions before they renew now with the good ‘til cancelled
Good. Maybe this will motivate some “museum sellers” to actually adjust their inflated prices when items fail to sell.
FYI to all of you... Since the Spring 'Screw the Seller Update', eBay has announced that the Good Till Cancelled listings will now renew on a specific day each month, instead of every 30 days... So, your listings will renew on, say, the 5th of every month, so you don't have to worry about being double charged in months with 31 days... This is the one semi-intelligent thing eBay has done in the past 15 years... Although, it wouldn't have been necessary if they had just left well-enough alone.
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you must be listing a lot of stuff. I get at least 50 free listings per month
I don't think Ebay is that strategic with small sellers, who are the ones that are affected by this change. This is a plain money grab on their part to get more fee revenue. Ebay is a digital store with literally unlimited floor space. Ebay doesn't want sellers like me - more active than casual users, less than commercial user - because we are more of a nuisance to them. We only pay Ebay when they perform (sell) the item for us. They don't get any other revenue from me (as a seller) especially since they spun off Payapl. Under the old format it was easy for me to have a "set it and forget it" process with the 50 free listings. Ebay wants to do everything in their power to force me to pony up for a store. This is just the first step of many.
They updated their terms a couple months ago to start doing this.
I don't think $0.35 is going to motivate those sellers to lower their price. This is like $4.20 annually worst case for those sellers. One less Starbucks pays for a year.
For one listing, yes, but many of these sellers have dozens even hundreds of listings. That's a lot of lattes.
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Thinking eBay is ever going to change for the better is like that feeling of knowing something tasty is in your fridge, looking forward to coming home after a hard day's work and ripping into that delightful treat, yet when you get home discovering to your horror it is gone. If that feeling was a buying and selling venue, it would be eBay.
I don't think the people who run Ebay ever have to worry about missing any meals.
Yep, it's just like the oil companies jumping the price of gas by 15 cents overnight for no reason. We can't even imagine how much windfall profits they get in one day by doing this and at zero cost to them.
My opinion is the main reason for the fee is simply because Ebay feels they can get away with it. There's an old saying in business of try to get whatever the traffic can bear. And evidently, Ebay figures their traffic (customers) can bear this .35 cent charge.
Besides, the Ebay CEO may want to buy a new luxurious beach front estate, and what better way to do it? Might as well buy a Maserati to go along with it so he can drive around Malibu in style. 😒
Exactly. They do it because it's a huge profit with no costs. They also do it automatically so you don't have a chance to not resist it. Only auctions are not automatically relisted.
check and see if you added extras you i your listing. Shorter auction times or subtitles will trigger extra cost. Adding a buy it now to an item you list will also do it. Check what your store level subscription says maybe you have free listing $ inserts for 299 items and you sold more.
What is your EBay subscription level plan?
I do the 24.95 a month and works for me. Larger accounts get assigned reps and agree on pricing. Call them. They will up-sell you. Gladly.
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I don't have any plan and I don't have any extras. I am a small seller. The insertion fees are automatic and for no reason.
I have maybe 20-25 items in the $25 - $40 range. After a month or two, if they don't sell, then these ridiculous monthly 35 cent fees will force me to take them all down. Because I am not in the business of giving away my stuff.
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So am I, and I don't like them, but they aren't for no reason.
They give sellers that do not have a store subscription 50 listings a month free. If you need more than 50 per month they are now charging you for them. It's really that simple.
Before this new 35 cent per listing fee you would probably list your free 50, and then wait for a listing special to add more. Now those more you add will have to be stopped manually or they will roll over after 30 days and cause you to pay fees.
If you don't want to pay anything for listings my advice would be find your best 50 items, start them on or after the 3rd of the month, and let them keep rolling over for free.
If you absolutely need more than 50 per month, then you need to either 1) add more items and pay the new 35 cents per item fee or 2) get a "starter" store which is only $4.95 a month if you pay the whole year in advance and you get 100 extra listings which is only 5 cents each for those 100 instead of 35 cents each.
If you need more than 150 listings per month you might not be as small of a seller as you think you are.
Hi, we are Ebay. Yes you can sell your items on our site, but we'll have to break your thumbs first.
90% of the people after complaining about Ebay in this thread have been on Ebay either before or after posting to look for stuff they want. #FactsOnly.
I have to imagine this will put a complete end to people posting thousands of 1980's commons. We should see a surge in lots being listed though.
For profit company. They own the platform. They made investments to it. This is what they charge.
Feebay has also made it difficult to stop auto relisting. I can only do it from my laptop. On your all selling page, you have to switch to Classic View, then each item will have a drop down menu listed beside it allowing you to deselect auto relist. I saw a thread where you can call customer service and have auto relist permanently stopped on your account but I never have tried it.
How do you switch to Classic View? I couln't find it.
i think they keep moving it. Before I think it was in drop down. This pic is from my mobile browser today.
Ebay is frustrating on a smart phone. I cant even see the completed listings.
IT CAN'T BE A TRUE PLAYOFF UNLESS THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONS ARE INCLUDED
It's also frustrating on a laptop, a desktop, a flip phone, an iPad, an iMac, a PC, a workstation, a supercomputer, a mainframe, and a PDA...
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Great advice and input right here.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
A word of caution.
eBay has a promo (i'm pretty sure it's for everyone) from 5/25 to 5/29 for 500 free fixed price or auction style listings. They hardly ever do 500; from my experience it's usually only 50 or 100. It feels like they're hoping that the small seller who used to wait for these specials and then let them die after 30 days will jump at the chance to add so many listings.
Be very careful if you take advantage of this special as you will have to be diligent in remembering to cancel them all before they relist.
500 X $0.35 = $175
I dont know anything about these groups so what I am going to say is most likely wrong, but I imagine them being a bunch of low ballers telling you they can get it cheaper on eBay.
I figured this out the hard way when I had 100 fixed price listings auto relist. Ouch...
I liked it better before when they simply ended after 30 days, so then I could pick and choose what gets relisted. Looks like I'm no longer listing cards with a fixed price.
Nam, good info on your store mathing post... I'll be looking into this.
Wow! That makes paying $200 for a PSA 7 common in a pack break sound really attractive. I see why you would want to sell that way, but am mystified as to why anyone would buy that way.
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I've never had a Facebook account, and won't, not ever. I do have a friend that swears by the Facebook card groups, though, and uses it all of the time, so I've frequently witnessed the goings on just to see what all of the fuss is about. Just my personal observation...the carnival barkers and used car salesman types likely find it to be a very profitable platform selling a bunch of junk, preying on the unsuspecting and uneducated. Legitimate cards and legitimate transactions appear to sell for much, much less than the same items on eBay, even once you factor in the fees. I suspect there to be a significant percentage of these sales are the fencing of stolen items, or the result of some grade school kid having traded his dad's 68 Mantle for a $5 Yadier Molina Heritage relic card, and they're trying to get that Mantle sold quickly before the dad comes back with his kid trying to take the trade back.
I don't have a facebook account, and im guessing they aren't going to be very trusting of a guy with a brand new facebook account if I made one.
Edited to add - I appreciate you taking the time to help educate me on all this.