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New Ebay Store Item Fees - what a whack job
VicThrust
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For any of you who have coin sotres. I just looked at the FVF for store items for any of you schmucks who have an Ebay store.
12% fee sliding to 8% and then 4%. I hope they give a bottle of astroglide to go along with the new fees.
12% fee sliding to 8% and then 4%. I hope they give a bottle of astroglide to go along with the new fees.
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They shouldn't be paying ebay fees for the ebay stores. They should be opening up their own websites, even if they don't know how to do HTML coding or really want to run their own online business....or, even better yet, they should open their own brick and mortar store.....much cheaper than the ebay fees!
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
http://pages.ebay.com/sell/update08/basic/index.html
Home for ebay refugee's Here
lower fees for listing in store
the elephant is about to become sick, as more sellers seek alternatives
and the scammers become buyers
An authorized PCGS dealer, and a contributor to the Red Book.
<< <i>Let's see, my website host charges me $15 a month. How much are eBay's fees? Somehow I think the website is a better deal. >>
Rich, How do people find your website though? Just asking.
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<< <i>Let's see, my website host charges me $15 a month. How much are eBay's fees? Somehow I think the website is a better deal. >>
Rich, How do people find your website though? Just asking. >>
Good point. A good website needs to be found by collectors of the coins that are contained on the website. A lot of collectors find me at shows, and if they collect the types of coins I sell, even if they don't buy I say that every coin is pictured on the website and give them a business card. Of course, anyone buying a coin can get a receipt which of course contains the website name. There are a few other ways to draw collectors to a website but they're kind of technical and I let my website consultant figure that stuff out. As he told me, it's not like the movie Field of Dreams where "if you build it, they will come." Doesn't happen.
Once people get to the website, the site needs instant access. A wait of over 5 seconds for the site to load up is unacceptable. It also needs to operate properly, have good coins on it, and has to be updated often. There is one large coin company whose website is either clogged up or too slow, so my PC times out before it ever even gets to the website. This of course equals lost sales. There are other companies who load their website once, then update it every six months or so. That doesn't work either.
An authorized PCGS dealer, and a contributor to the Red Book.
<< <i>Starting at 12% it seems to me that Ebay is actually discouraging stores. I saw Smeg Whitman being in interviewed and she was asked about the fees for store sellers and she said the the stores has very low sell through rates compared to regular auctions. >>
I always thought it was Smegma Whitman.
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<< <i>Starting at 12% it seems to me that Ebay is actually discouraging stores. I saw Smeg Whitman being in interviewed and she was asked about the fees for store sellers and she said the the stores has very low sell through rates compared to regular auctions. >>
I always thought it was Smegma Whitman.
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Miss those good old country home comforts, like mother used to make?
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When it is up and running, I hope some of you guys will check it out.