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July 19, 2006
eBay Selling: eBay Store Fee Increases, Part 1
Wow, the you-know-what has really hit the fan at eBay! The cause of all the furor is changes eBay has announced in its store fees and policies. In the uproar, it's hard to sort out what's actually going on and I admit to being at a disadvantage in that I don't know eBay stores very well. When I would have loved them, they didn't exist. By the time they were introduced in 2001, I already owned multiple off-eBay stores and had no interest.
As usual with eBay changes, there is a lot of hysteria, so we are offering this series of posts in an attempt to give some rational perspective to these changes. It's not easy to stay objective when your money is at stake, but we're doing our best. So, let's begin with the comments of Bill Cobb, President of eBay North America, who states that there are two kinds of listings on eBay ...
1. What Cobb calls "core listings"
* Auction-style
* Auction-style with Buy It Now
* Fixed price listings
2. eBay store listings
According to Cobb, these store listings were "intended as a low-risk way for sellers to display large amounts of product in their eBay Store. This format employs low insertion fees and higher final value fees to encourage an abundance of inventory on the site."
Posted by SydneyJohnston at July 19, 2006 2:23 PM
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