More eBay fees from today.

[kreativebargains]

Another batch of fee increases, a few small cuts as well. Not listed on there for almost 4 years so not too sure how they will affect most sellers, but a quick glance looks like another nail in the coffin for small sellers.


Details:

Sellers will now pay a flat fee for listing items, regardless of how they are listed, be it auction, ‘buy it now’ or ‘good til cancelled’.
Gallery Plus
From today all listings with the Gallery Plus feature – which uses a larger picture to display items when they come up on eBay’s search result – will cost £2.50.
It used to cost 95p for auctions and three-to-ten-day ‘buy it now’ listings and £2.85 for 30-day ‘buy it now’ sales.
Gallery Plus will remain free if you sell in fashion, motors, home and garden or pet supplies.
Adding ‘buy it now’ to auctions
This will now cost 50p. Until today, the fee varied according to the price of the item being sold.
Adding the option to items listed between 99p and £4.99 cost 10p, between £5 and £14.99 cost 20p and between £15 and £24.99 cost 30p. Items costing anything above £25 already cost 50p to add the option.
Adding subtitles to listings
Subtitles are an extra line of descriptive information to make items stand out in search results.
Adding a subtitle will now cost £1. It used to cost 35p on auctions or three-to-ten-day ‘buy it now’ listings and £1.05 on 30-day ‘buy it now’ listings.
Listing designer
This helps improve the look of auctions. It will now cost 30p whereas previously it was 7p for auctions and three-to-ten day ‘buy it now’ listings and 21p for 30-day ‘buy it now’ listings.
Reserve price fees
When you set a reserve price for an auction, sellers pay eBay a fee of 3.5 per cent of the reserve price, which is going up to four per cent today. Sellers will still never pay more than £150 per item.
Early ended auctions
If you end an auction early after it has been listed for more than 24 hours and buyers have already placed bids, you are charged a fee.
This fee was previously waived once every calendar year. This will now only be waived for auctions cancelled within 24 hours of listing, regardless of whether your auction has received bids.
eBay will also still waive the fee if you have to end the auction early for any reason.

More at:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/new...s-sellers.html

I have added a comment, feel free to like it and add your own, every mention we can get in for eBid will help.

[suesjools]

Ugh, glad I don't sell on Feepay. I honestly don't know anyone gets ahead there, unless they sell in bulk. I'm glad there is a good alternative for small sellers in eBid.

Best wishes for many sales to all,

[countryfeedback87]

They're not even small increases!

[kreativebargains]

Just had a look at my comment on this story, so far I have 80 green arrows and only one red. If it stays on top it is highly likely that anybody reading the article and comments will see a plug for eBid.

[buttons-and-bows]

Just rated the three ebid comments

[deanosaur1972]

Just had a look at my comment on this story, so far I have 80 green arrows and only one red. If it stays on top it is highly likely that anybody reading the article and comments will see a plug for eBid.

At 99 now - mine was the 99th....

Great news about the ebay fees .

[kreativebargains]

At 99 now - mine was the 99th....

Great news about the ebay fees .

At 111 and I am presuming that a lot of those who are agreeing are not from the forums here.

With the fees the way I see it is that a few of these changes hit the lower value items more, so there may be a few more stamp, postcard and comic sellers priced out of eBay.

[FirstGreenIsGold]

I just clicked all your responses, Andy.

[deanosaur1972]

At 111 and I am presuming that a lot of those who are agreeing are not from the forums here.

With the fees the way I see it is that a few of these changes hit the lower value items more, so there may be a few more stamp, postcard and comic sellers priced out of eBay.

Yep would be great to get more postcard sellers here.

For every price increase ebay introduce an eBid seller will get much stronger, I have seen some bay postcard sellers who have made loses of over £100 in a single month since June. Any less availability on the bay pushes more buyers to search on google.co.uk and for every one that does, my custom base on eBid will increase.

the count on your comment is now 143 ..........

[sherlock07]

163 now.