Just astounding. Really.

If I was ebay, I would be embarassed at this chart. But then again, if I was ebay, I wouldn't pull such a blatent money-grabbing stunt to throw out auction sellers.

'You call some place paradise - kiss it goodbye' - Eagles, The Last Resort

Please note that there are now two rate card options available for auction sellers. The Standard Auction-Style rate card offers Free insertion fees for auctions starting under $1 (up to 100 per month), but higher final value fees than the fees for auction sellers with a store. If you are an auction seller, you may be better off with the auction-style fees associated with a Basic Store. In addition, you will receive up to 12 free supersized pictures per listing with the Basic Store level. Check out the Fee Illustrator to see which level is best for you:

http://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/news/FeeIllustrator2010.html

The under $ 1.00 option is unworkable, far too many items end on ebay with only one bid and sellers will lose far more then just the fees.

I've tried the 99-cent listings for a time and was losing so much money had to stop. If ebay could truly deliver enough traffic to generate multiple bids on all of those items perhaps it would work, but for most it is a waste of money.

Frankly ebay shouldn't have been raising fees in a depressed economy, but leave it to ebay to do so.

Geoff... many thanks for the 2 charts.... shines a light ___ blu

Absolute insanity.

This country is in the middle of the worst economic times in decades, eyeballs have been leaving eBay by the droves and what do the wizz kids come up with to fix the hemorrhaging?

Wait for it...

FEE INCREASES.

Don't forget that they are yet again changing the game further confusing both buyers and sellers to the point of just driving more away from both ends of the user spectrum.

Great move guys. I need to go puke now.

Mike N

Doesn't matter how you look at it ebay is just screwing sellers with these massive FVF increases. I don't care if they made all listing fees free it would still be outrageous to double the FVF fees. Oh and if you want lower FVFs you have to buy a lame Store for $15 or more a month. That really makes a lot of sense. Any way you look at it ebay is just kicking most smaller sellers to the curb.

AWESOME TABLE OF FVF Changes - Do they think people are too stupid to figure this out? Time to bail on the Bay.

"they just consider it all "noise" that will die down in a couple weeks and things will get back to normal."

You are quite correct.

That is what happened in 2000, and 2001, and 2002, and 2003, and 2004, and 2005 (twice that year), and 2006, and 2007, and 2008 (twice that year), and 2009.

There is no reason to believe things will be different this year or next..

With US$50,000,000,000+ worth of "stuff" sold on eBay this year, some sellers will quit, some will survive and some will prosper.

And life does go on.

Thanks for the amazing charts!

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I guess since I only have a 9th grade education ( actually cheated two years to get that far) Ebay thinks I can't do the math. I am stuck as I live in an area that is quite remote from civilization (30 miles to the nearest town of 2700) so I have to sell my stuff online and without the small income from ebay I just cannot pay the bills. I am going to try to keep the basic store with only a dozen or so higher end items and start as many auctions as possible at .99 cents with triple or more shipping. I am moving all of my store inventory (usually from 500 - 1000 items ) to Bonanzle.com and as many other sites as I can and hope that with three or four stores on those sites I can pay the bills. Thanks ebay I have been here for over 12 years now. I have quit or threatened to quit many times but I think this might just be the straw that makes me get serious in hunting another venue.

True...Cumos... With Stores in Search, and hopefully better sell through rates, these changes could The ..but what if... is the question ___ blu