Originally Posted by
rightcharlie
Paying wouldn't bother me if i got the sales, I give ebay about £1200 a month as it is, this site works for some folk sure it does, but I cant personally ever expect it to be any more than a holiday fund. as long as the fees are in arrears what difference does it make? You could just pay from your income. - not saying it shouldnt be free but thats a gimmick that just inst working - lots of the 99p type junk on this site no one would PAY to list in a million years. fees would halp get rid of the junk at the very least, i mean how many types of hair scrunchis do we need online? If something isnt selling, stop trying and get something else. thats obvious.
fact is you have to speculate to accumalate - if my ebay fees were zero, i would make zero.
My fees here last month were £13, and looking at the maths, it too represented about the same % of my site turnover as on ebay - im sure thats true for many of us.
For me its a numbers game pure and simple, if i thought as my fees as real money (which it is, but they are paid for from income) i wouldn't make a bean, I'd bottle out.
And im sorry, ebay might be a mockery for you but if I had a shop (and I have had shops in the past) I would have to pay light, heat, staff, insurance, rodent control, refuse collection, business rates etc etc.
I think ebay is great - sure it busts my balls all those fees, and the paypal added tax on top but hell, Id never have another shop again.
and eBid COULD be great, it could be a hell of a lot busier and there is a pile of goodwill, but if you say its cos the servers couldnt handle the trafiic, well, i reckon thats pretty lame - but while Im only allowed one listing a day, Ill stick to spreading ten out over ebays day, that way I dont need a zillion different slow moving stock items to get the same turnover.
good luck anyway, RC