yep, your figures are spot-on. It's a huge price increase for me, too.
I guess eBay figured none of us would be smart enough to whip out our calculators and do the math.

(This is my buying ID.)

feebay wants to be Walmart.

Yes, eBay thinks this is a good deal for us...

The nerve to start out their email with this...
"Starting March 30, 2010 selling on eBay will be a better deal than ever!"

What they really mean is...
"will be a better deal than ever!" for eBay to add more money to our bottom line at the expense of our captive users.

Wow! Thanks for doing this chart.

I am sure I am like many others. I am a collector first. I sell a few things from my personal collection so I can afford to buy a few new things. My only source of merchandise is my own closets and bookshelves.

How much volume do I need to sell to make having a store worthwhile? What other sites are there to use?

Ebay started as the granddaddy of yard sales and classified add pages. Now it wants to be Sotheby's.

I don't know what do now.

This Is Absolutely Ridiculous.
ebaY Did This Last Time Putting The Spin On It "We Are Lower Listing Fee's! ...........and rasing fvf's"
Straight Wicked. Hey ebaY This Is Not The time
To Be Bending Your Business Partners Over.
I Truly Believe In The Next Year Or Two Amazon Or Google Will Destroy You For Making These
Stupid Moves & Honestly I Will Dance A Flippin Jig The Day It Happens......Your Bad.

Imagine a cable television subscription with an increase of this magnitude-the outcry would be huge! It usually is if the increase is a mere few dollars.

Higher postage, higher eBay fees-the customers are not exactly going to be flocking to eBay because I don't know many people who will "support" an eBay selling habit very long.

Besides, eBay wants to model these fees after a business plan that never changes! I don't sell the same items, resulting in the same profits month after month!

eBay wants bigger fish as sellers-I get that. Problem is, I have purchased from some of these and if they are non communicative or otherwise blow you off, etc. there is not much recourse. As many transactions as they do, a negative will roll off their feedback front page in an hour.

I recently paid for a $3.28 item with a gargantuan seller and was accused of non-payment. Rather than risk a UPI, I paid again. The seller never did give my $ back and there was no point in pursuing it as far as I was concerned-my time and frustration is worth more than $3.28.

I KNOW where the big sellers are-they are called Big Box stores and malls. I can go there anytime I want and get instant gratification.

I guess it is time to stop closing items in my store. I still can't figure out how Ebay is able to state that they are lowering insertion feees when store fees are going to .20 per. So they are lowering my insertion fees by raising them between 400%-700% monthly. The angle of better search results does not apply for anyone in the Sports collectibles category so watch as the stores close and the inventory dwindles! "Lowering insertion fees" -- sound like fraud to me!

If I am reading this right. I have about 200 listings in my basic store that renew every 30 days for 3 cents per listing (a total of $6.00)

Once this conversion takes place, I will be paying 20 cents for these same listings (a total of $40.00).

That means I will be paying 667 percent more to list here??????

Does not make any sense to keep a store or even sell on this site anymore.

I sell collectibles, unique, rare, one of a kind, and right now, with this economy way down on everyone's priority. I'm not selling mass produced disposable carp with a mark up that makes the Rockies seem like ant hill.

Bottom line...I think this is it for me on this site. I'll start phasing out here and move along to other sites that don't charge all these ridiculous usurious fees. Viva Bonanzle.

I don't understand the emphasis on auctions....these days most buyers don't even care for them. They want an item and don't want to fight someone else for it. The novelty of the auction has worn off.

Specifically, I want to know why eBay thinks it is okay to rate hike through the roof yet want us to auction our stuff off starting less than $1.00. If they want to sacrifice some inventory to gain new buyers, they need to purchase their own inventory and sell it at a loss.

It really feels like they presume too much. They haven't shown the slightest inclination toward marketing their own merchandise (like a certain hugely popular site), yet they change fee schedules as if there really is nowhere else to go.

I'm not really worried about the rate hike. I think it is more of a death knell for eBay than it is for me. I can slowly extricate myself from the situation, but eBay will just be another Circuit City, quickly sliding into irrelevance, yet failing to ever see the prognostications of its actions.

I don't understand the emphasis on auctions....these days most buyers don't even care for them. They want an item and don't want to fight someone else for it. The novelty of the auction has worn off.

Really? Tell that to Heritage, Teletrade, and numerous other online auction houses that are doing gangbuster business. Contrary to popular mythology, auctions are alive and well.

They don't work well for stuff that can be had at Walmart, but they are still THE ticket in collectibles and antiques.

Luck is the residue of effort.

So sorry if my comment was not applicable to your situation in particular.

However, one has to ask why eBay has to basically grovel to obtain the .99 auction starting price desired. If auctions starting low bring so much more profit, why aren't more people doing them? This pricing structure is an obvious push to get more auctions starting at lower prices.

And, as pointed out by savvy previous posters, eBay is not being very hospitable to the sellers of the items you are detailing. On the contrary, seems as if eBay wants purveyors of such items to go to the places you delineated. Amazon is also doing "gang buster" business on some very mundane (as regarded by some) items consistently.

At any rate, eBay does not seem to be emulating Amazon nor seeking to attract a more elite clientele.

This is ridiculous EBay is doing everything they can to kill the large and small sellers. This would mean a big increase in fees for my store that would basically wipe out our top rated seller discount. I hate the way they worded it. Its a bunch of BS!!! They hope we are all stupid!