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Has it always been $.05 for any listing above the free allocation of 10,000 listings? I thought for the longest time that it was $0.03 for each new listing.
I have been running numbers in my head about getting up to 12,000-15,000 listings on the basis that they were only $0.03 per listing. $0.05 nearly doubles what I was expecting to be paying once I run out of “free” listings. I can still do it, but it’s a higher figure than I would like to be paying.
When Ebay first transitioned to the 10,000 store for anchor subscribers, I remember the price still remaining at $0.03 for a listing above that limit. I don’t recall when the change took place to the higher fee. I am only seriously looking at it now because I am a few hundred listings away from going above 10,000.
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I feel like it was 3-cents over 10k items, but I cant confirm since we never went over. It’s definitely 5-cents now: https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/run-your-store/subscriptions-and-fees.html
Maybe they changed it in one of the changes over the last couple years.
We still have 2k items till we hit 10k. I feel like if we hit 10k, we need to figure out how to sell what we have faster. That’s as much long tail as we have an appetite for.
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Noooo. It is true. 🙁 I was secretly hoping it was a typo.
I’m surprised they never made an announcement of the fee increase. It just happened one day without a word.
I’m pretty happy with having a very large inventory. It steadies out the long-tail more in terms of sales. If you have enough stuff listed, you’ll get sales for the weirdest, most obscure items daily. Even 10,000-15,000 items feels small for this type of inventory, but it’s a good starting point.
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For every 1000 items over 10,000, it’s only $50 more a month in listing fees.
The hope is that we make at least $1000/month for ever 1000 items we have listed.
If you sell just two things for $25, you pay the listing fee.This kind of math os why I think its illogical when newer sellers obsess keeping their store small enough to only use free listings to save literally pennies.
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Yeah, 15,000 listings is only $550 a month. When I think about opening a b&m, $550 a month would barely pay for insurance, employees, heat, etc,. let alone even factoring in the cost of the actual rental for the b&m itself per month.
I don’t mind paying the extra $50 per 1,000 listings. I have too many items to list to wait to get the “free” listings per month once something sells down below 10,000. I just wish Ebay would post every single fee increase when it happens, not when someone is about to willingly pay more to use their service and realize that it has almost doubled.
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I think you also need to think of the listing fees spread over all your items. 50 cents a listing over 10,000 should be divided with the 10,000 items that are free – so you would be paying less than 1 cent an item.
We’ve been scaling up (not close to 10,000 – reaching 500) and don’t see the listing fees as a deterring me from listing more (we get 500 free listings as part of a Canadian Promo – $0.40 a listing after 500). Paying the listing fees in my opinion is a safe option before committing to the next store level – I rather pay a few dollars (well, maybe a few hundred) for a 6-month period to see if I can handle the next level and then make a decision, then commit to a subscription store and not use it. We all can calculate the tipping point when the fees outweigh the next store level based on what eBay charges us individually, however, listing fees in my opinion are one of the lower costs of doing business on eBay.
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Well, technically the 10,000 listings a month aren’t free. They’re $0.03 a listing if you have exactly 10,000 items up and are paying the yearly cost of $299 a month. Otherwise, they’re slightly more than $0.03 a month for a lot of anchor sellers. More like $0.04 or slightly less per month if you have 6,000-8,000 items listed. This has been part of my motivation to get 10,000 items listed – to be taking full advantage of the cheaper listing fee per item. That, and I have thousands of items left to list, so I better get them all listed!
I guess if I go back to the frame of mind of only having 5,000-6,000 items listed per month, then the $0.05 doesn’t feel like too much of a departure from what I had been paying without thinking too deeply about it.
My husband suggested this morning that I temporarily migrate 20,000+ listings we have on other selling venues over to Ebay for the holiday season, so that would be an additional $1k per month. That makes my initial ugh feeling feel like nothing in comparison to the additional possible $250 per month for an additional 5,000 listings spread out over the next year, hah.
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You have 20k additional listings that are not on eBay!!!!
Do you list alone? I forget if you have any employees.-
I do all of the Ebay listing myself, and I have a friend that helps out on listing for the other sites. My husband and I source together most of the time for all sites, but he’s also focused on starting up businesses outside of reselling atm, so his efforts are mainly focused on those start-ups. Listing is the easy part, so it is okay to have some outside help.
It took A LONG TIME for my husband to jump on the Ebay train since we started off doing really well on just Amazon and other sites alone, but he gets it now. When we took off from serious sourcing this summer and did fun thrifting, he helped me by finding stuff to resell that I wasn’t expecting him to have any awareness of. He’s a good egg.
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Yeah. We would be broke if we sold via FBA, lol. We store and ship them ourselves. Never had a chance to try out FBA before the fees went nuts. Between that, resellers referring to websites like CamelCamelCamel and Keepa and having to manage your IPI, I consider FBA sellers to be more statisticians than actual booksellers.
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