The Zoltan Blog » ebay http://www.zoltanfagyal.com/blog Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:37:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 eBay jacks up the prices yet again, this time it is sugarcoated http://www.zoltanfagyal.com/blog/2008/01/30/ebay-jacks-up-the-prices-yet-again-this-time-it-is-sugarcoated/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ebay-jacks-up-the-prices-yet-again-this-time-it-is-sugarcoated http://www.zoltanfagyal.com/blog/2008/01/30/ebay-jacks-up-the-prices-yet-again-this-time-it-is-sugarcoated/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:31:02 +0000 admin http://www.zoltanfagyal.com/blog/2008/01/30/ebay-jacks-up-the-prices-yet-again-this-time-it-is-sugarcoated/ SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "eBay jacks up the prices yet again, this time it is sugarcoated", url: "http://www.zoltanfagyal.com/blog/2008/01/30/ebay-jacks-up-the-prices-yet-again-this-time-it-is-sugarcoated/" } ); ]]> If you are an eBay seller, you probably received the now “usual” email every end of January: “important seller pricing changes”
This time they nicely sugarcoated this price increase:

They start by
“1. Reduced Listing Fees
You asked, we listened. We’re reducing Insertion Fees and adjusting Final Value Fees to lower your up-front cost to sell on eBay. You wanted free Gallery, now you’ve got it–plus more feature discounts.

  • Lower Insertion Fees
  • Making Gallery free
  • Lower fees for Gallery Plus, Picture Pack, and Feature Plus

”

Thankyouverymuch, this sounds nice but when you go to the basic fees scroll down to the Final Value Fees. Come on eBay, 3.25% increase for the final value fee for the first $25 (from 5.50% to 8.75%!!!) and 0.25% for the rest?

ebay final value fees

Please don’t try to make this look good.

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