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.[/quote]

Thank you..for book sellers, especially auction style the .99 auctions are a big money loser. Because Ebay has moved away from auction style and moved to amazon.com style 'buy it now' style there are fewer and fewer people looking for that deal on ebay.

Sellers make money from two people having a bidding war. Ebay makes money by listing fees and grabbing a higher % of what does sell.

International sales are also a problem as first class mail provides no proof of mailing and international buyers can claim through paypal that they never got the books. I make money through the international markets. Why is ebay hurting their best sellers?

That definitely won't work, especialy for the sellers like myself who sometimes have up to 100 pictures per lot. Also how about the sellers that post links to 400-600 pictures ? Hmmmmmm

So true.

Many sellers are now listing with Auctiva, Vendio, Inkfrog, etc and paying about $10.00 a month. eBay want to lay their grubby
hands on that ten bucks. Just watch them.

Shhhh - you are going to spoil the surprise .

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Any seller who is a serious ebay seller will not care about the "Free pictures" because we use our own image host and just use HTML in the auction body to show our pictures off, so that really is NOT an incentive to use Ebay. oh, cobbie, you haven't seen the next change coming for the summer. ebay will put a stop to html being used in listings and you will have to use cookie cutter seller pages supplied by ebay to conform to their new format that is why they are giving the 12 free pics now, to get you ready

I am absolutely correct 97% of the time. Who cares about the other 4% ?

Any seller who is a serious ebay seller will not care about the "Free pictures" because we use our own image host and just use HTML in the auction body to show our pictures off, so that really is NOT an incentive to use Ebay.

When it comes to the bottom line, the fees have still increased, unless you're selling $2500+ items.

Our listings are Buy it Now due to the type of items we have. We're already paying more than the FVFs noted for the selling price - actually more than the 'new' ones noted. Do you have a chart of changes for those?

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

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.

Thanks for the amazing charts!

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"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.

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