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I did look through it quickly. There weren’t any big changes, which is a good thing.
The one thing that annoyed me was the fee increase for books, DVDs, and music (excluding records). For those of us with a store, the increase is from 9.15% to 12%. The fee for a non-store seller will also increase to 12%. I assume this applies to vintage & antique books in the collectable category, although they don’t specifically say.
Why would they increase the fees on such a low profit category (at least for contemporary books)? Some sellers only make about $1 on each one they sell. Maybe eBay is trying to reduce the low profit listings?
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For those of us who sell non-commodity items, I dont see any big changes.
eBay is moving to the new shipping labels page by Jan of 2019, so hope they fix the current issues.
I assume you mean eBay will now charge a final value fee of 12% for books? It is interesting why they specifically chose books.
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Yes, the final value fee for books, DVDs, and music (except records). I have no idea why they would chose these categories except that the prices can be ridiculously low for regular, mass market items. I can only see that a higher fee will discourage sellers from listing them.
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I really dont understand eBay sometimes.
With Amazon recently raising its selling fees, eBay was starting to pull a small slice more of the market share. Many of the large cross-platform companies could lower their cost on eBay by 5ish percent and still make the same profit as selling on Amazon. Ebay takes the sell over Amazon and earns its final value fee. By raising Media categories final value fee they have closed the gap to Amazon’s current fee structure, and over time will lose back that small slice of sales.
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Every time I see a new Ebay seller Update I think .. “Fasten your seat belts boys, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!” 🙂 [Troy who said and what movie LOL ?? and no not a John Wayne movie}
Mike at MDCG in Atl
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Yep, the character was Margo Channing, played by Bette Davis, in the movie All About Eve (1950).
I am going to have to go a long mile to trip you up, so stay prepared.
Mike at MDCG-
Funny thing…we are just starting to watch “Billions” (great series so far), and two characters are talking, when one says “Good father? Fuxx you! Go home to your wife and kids.”
I paused the movie for about 10 seconds…cause I KNEW that was from a movie somewhere!
And it was… 🙂 Took me a bit though…
PS – Great movie too! Ryanne likes to paraphrase one line from the same movie…said just before the line I referenced above…
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T-Satt, LOL—I would have known that one right away. I don’t get many movie references , but when I do, they’re usually from Glen Gary Glen Ross….
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L-Listing(OK, slightly modified)
In the morning, if I’ve had no sales, I like to remind myself: “Put. The Coffee. Down.”
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Haven’t fully studied the update, but one interesting thing from the Discussion Board: Just as with INADs, an INR claim that is ultimately found to be a buyer’s mistake (seller can show delivery) will still count as an INR for purposes of the peer performance rules. Same explanation: Your peers get ’em too, so it all balances out.
I’m not so sure of that, but I’m guessing ebay is determined to stay with the rule, no matter how many people view it as unfair.
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eBay Canada’s seller update had something interesting not available in the U.S. yet on eBay.com:
The “Shipping Rate Tables” is something I’m looking forward to. I’ve been wanting to offer Free Shipping locally in my region of Canada, but I can’t at the moment. When this is introduced, I can. The map is pretty accurate to my situation – where the single $ is an area I can ship almost anything, any size, any weight, for under $10. However, the $$$ areas are where I would get burned as it costs a minimum of $20 to send a small item, and well over $100 for very large/heavy items.
Really nice option to have – I can focus my business more locally, but still allow buyers to pay for appropriate shipping increases that I don’t want to cover outside my region.
I would really enjoy this on eBay.com, as I have to choose a flat rate for shipping from Canada – I win some, I lose some, depending on the location of the buyer.
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Too funny – have recently had great success selling CDs and DVDs – after a long time with little interest, it has picked up remarkably.
This accounts for my irritating begging for the return of the super efficient UPC based pre-filled item process!
Que sera, sera – only one thing matters, LIST EVERYTHING TODAY !!!
A.B.L.!!!
It does make you wonder about motivation, this fee increase on the media category – no incentive to even HAVE a store in the category – does this encourage small sellers or discourage large sellers? There are plenty of giant arbitrage type sellers of CDs and DVDs, what do they think?
And many of my transactions in the category have been over $20 – there’s money to be made.
Jay has mentioned this , it would be super interesting to know what is causing eBay to think they need to do this – what problem are they trying to fix?
Ok, gotta go, have over 100 DVDs to list as 30 day listings!
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I still have a store, but that’s because I’m up to nearly 10k items listed. My store mainly consists of books, ephemera, cds, cassettes, records, dvds, etc,. with thousands more to list (and source). I’m still wishing they’ll up the anchor store to 15k listings so I don’t have to spend additional money to get it all listed. This fee increase will not prevent me from listing everything.
I do think that if they’re going to raise the fees on books & media, that they should either give FREE listings for those categories, or reduced listing fees. Perhaps even have a special category of store tiers set up for sellers that are primarily book & media sellers with the same fees, but stores that are double or triple the size of allowed listings than normal stores.
I have way more items listed on Amazon and only pay $39.99 a month. I have less on Ebay and pay $299 a month. It’s ridiculous.
They might be working in the direction Amazon did with their fee increase – have the lowest item listed raise up by $1 or $2 in price. If sellers don’t raise the bottom ends of their listings, they will either break even or pay the selling sites to sell their items – $-1 – $-3 a book in fees for a lot of mega sellers is not uncommon with very large inventories. They just make up for it in volume.
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Yes, but then they have to give some kind of convoluted explanation to why they are doing it. These categories are not fast moving nor are they high profit (unless you get something very special). So, I’d like to hear what they come up with as an explanation.
I’m going to be out (as soon as my daughter gets her crap together), so I won’t be able to watch myself.
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I’m still digesting the Update, but , aside from the media fee increase, nothing really strikes me as all that bad. BUT…..I just find it disappointing. I was really hoping there’s be something that would make me say “Wow! That could be a game changer for us scavengers!” Or even just something that I’d REALLY feel like saying “thank you” to ebay for. But there’s just nothing there. We’re heading into Q4 and there’s absolutely nothing exciting.
Of course, they could still release some new tools later, or maybe they’ll have a terrific ad campaign, or….
But the seller release is a dud at best.
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