eBay Have Increased Their Fees Again!

Rise for both insertion and final value fees.

[derekwong28]

eBay are increasing their fees again!

Insertion Fee Starting Price:
$1.00 - $9.99 $0.40 $0.35

Final Value Fee Selling Price:
$25.01 - $1000.00 3.25% 3%

The margins for many items are already extremely low on eBay already, this just may tip things over for small merchants.

[ispy]

Those amounts seem petty even for Ebay! I'm not an Ebay seller, but does a nickel really matter? Are people actually calculating shipping down to the last cent?

Cutting off a box lid would probably save way more then this when shipping an item if you really had to.

Perhaps it's just that they keep raising things in miniscule amounts that gets irritating.

[CernyM]

Those amounts seem petty even for Ebay! I'm not an Ebay seller, but does a nickel really matter?

That nickel represents a significant fee increase in terms of percentage. It will make a material difference to eBay's bottom line.

It is definitely not nothing.

[plumsauce]

as a buyer, i see that the sellers *more* than make up for this in inflated shipping charges. especially the pro sellers.

[Corey Bryant]

Businesses need to make money to pay their employees. Inflation happens from time to time. Hopefully with the increase, it will allow eBay to increase its servers and customer service

-Corey

[topr8]

ebay is still cheap i think - compare it to the costs of setting up and running a competitive ecommerce website.

paypal is relatively cheap for those without established merchant accounts.

i think ebay could double their fees - bottom line a lot (not all) ebay sellers have very little alternative.

i think ebay will increase prices more and more ... and i predict the number of sellers will not drop off.

[AffiliateDreamer]

I wouldn't mind taking 1 cent for every transaction ebay gets, like Cerny said it will def. effect their bottom line.

At the same time they sure do have their expenses:

"eBay has 212 million registered users and draws 1 billion page views and 26 billion SQL queries in a typical day. The site averages nearly 6,000 SQL transactions per second per database and hits 16,000 during peak times."

"To handle that, eBay has 13 discrete SANs -- each dedicated to a particular quality of service. Its data centers have 2 Pbytes of raw storage, 8,000 SAN ports, 700 SAN-connected hosts, and more than 100 database clusters. eBay adds 10 Tbytes and 75 LUNs per week. "

[Essex_boy]

Sounds like my home set up.

Ahem...