eBay worldwide are getting fewer sales for sellers than a year ago but asking for ever higher fees. With fees that high, the only thing that can justify them is massive sales and yet eBay’s growth has stalled or worse is contracting. Today you’re looking at double or triple that, even with free insertion fees, depending on category by the time you factor in 10% or 12% final value fees and voluntarily donate a couple more percent to eBay’s coffers through eBay Promoted Listings.
I remember a time on eBay when you could list SIF (Shop Inventory Format, defunct for over a decade) for 3p insertion fee and final value fees were 5.25% of the first £29.99, 3.25% for the portion of the sale between £30 and £599.99 and just 1.75% for anything over £600.Īt eBay Universities I remember happily telling people I ran my entire eBay business for around 6% to 8% total fees (including shop subscription etc) plus PayPal fees. eBay seller grievancesįees are ever growing on eBay and today they are higher than ever, which coupled with eBay’s stated desire to widen their margins means sellers are getting a raw deal. Titled “eBay: online marketplace for sale, one careless owner”, it’s a hatchet job about all that’s wrong with eBay today but as always there are some truths in there and the truth often hurts.Ĭutting through the rhetoric, there are three complaints about what’s wrong with eBay that do have some merit – fees, relevance and financial performance, which can largely be summed up as seller grievances, buyers not being engaged and investor unrest. There was an article in this weeks’ Sunday Times about eBay which makes for somewhat depressing reading.
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