posted on January 24, 2008 09:16:43 PM new
I am wondering if someone who understands the changes to E-Bays Search could explain to me how it will hurt some Sellers. I think the changes in pricing by lowering listing fees is good even if they do increase the final value fee. Do you believe the new changes will hurt E-Bay or help it?
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posted on January 24, 2008 10:00:54 PM new
It's really hard to predict. Low listing fees will bring in a slew of sellers who will throw anything and everything up at a low price to see what sticks. That will dilute the price of similar items. To survive, I think I will have to go to the higher-end items in my category - rarer and less likely to be offered in a 99 cent auction.
posted on January 24, 2008 11:14:17 PM new
"Do you believe the new changes will hurt E-Bay or help it?"
Well, no question it should help ebay, but taht is not the same as helping sellers.
Overall, I have a positive outlook on the changes. It's gotten to the point on ebay where I rarely list outside my store, because the cost of running auctions or fixed price material in bulk compared to the sell through just isn't worth it. I don't mind paying a higher FVF if the listing price is low enough. I believe I will be doing a lot more selling through ebay in 2008 than in 2007, and my annual totals have been going down for several years now on ebay. That might change this year, depending on what the price is for listing, and how things actually sell.
"Mr Donahoe believes he now has a prescription for this. Over the next few weeks, he said, Ebay would announce a series of changes to its fee structure and to the way its search engine sifts through its millions of listings and chooses which to present most prominently. He warns that this is likely to attract bad publicity in the short term, as some sellers who lose out complain and competitors try to sow confusion. It will also dent the company's earnings this year, with growth falling to about 12 per cent as the company changes its pricing formulae. Yet it was the only way, he added, to promote the site's best sellers and lure more buyers."
Does this mean that store listings will no longer be in the main search engine? That is my guess. With an emphasis on cheaper fixed price listings, I wonder if this is the beginning of phasing out ebay stores?
posted on January 25, 2008 03:30:23 PM new
Thats part of the same article I was reading, I really didn't know how to take it.
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Just wanted to let you know about this new website that pays us up to 36% of the seller's fees whenever we buy something on eBay.
We can also get cash back at other retailers and earn extra cash when other people shop.
Just use the link below to check it out and let me know what you think!
posted on January 26, 2008 07:43:58 PM new
Newsflash for core listers: unless you are paying 35 cents for gallery, searches retrieving few core listings are giving stores a HUGE advantage, showing their one cent gallery images while showing none for you. IMHO, this has been a great boon for store sellers.
