eBay Store Subscription Sellers: List up to 250,000 Items from $27.45 Per Month (Was $604.95 Per Month) @ eBay AU

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L[Deactivated] on 11/04/2021 - 19:50 ebay.com.au (188 clicks)
Last edited 12/04/2021 - 00:43 by 2 other users

Basically, eBay has quietly removed its listing limitations for both basic and featured stores (previous capped at 600 and 1500 items respectively). You could always have gone beyond this limit, but it has always historically cost you $0.30 per listing per month (i.e. $300 per 1000 listings per month) for every listing above your cap, which pretty much forced you to subscribe to an anchor store (which costs a whopping $604.95 per month including GST) if you had more than a couple of thousand listings.

Here is the extract from the link provided that references this;

All sellers with an eBay Store subscription on eBay.com.au are entitled to 250,000 free insertion fees per month for items listed in auction-style or fixed price format in most categories, including relisted items and listings that are ended early.

It does conflict with information provided here (because this page is for sellers who are not on Managed Payments): https://sellercentre.ebay.com.au/ebay-stores

So just be aware this deal is only for early adopters of Managed Payments, and for those with a basic or featured store. Also be aware that eBay (of course) reserves the right to remove this deal and to default back to the original caps (or even to create new caps altogether) thus potentially leaving you quite vulnerable to having wasted alot of time.

It's a niche deal, and would only be useful to a small percentage of people but I thought I would share it nonetheless. It is very good news for me and I look forward to listing thousands upon thousands of new items as well as many duplicates of the same part number but with different keywords for all the different makes and models that my parts fit.

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  Muzeeb on 11/04/2021 - 19:54

  +24

  Listing should always be free given the highway robbery that is their FVF

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    mrmaltalian on 11/04/2021 - 20:32

    +6

    They kicked out PayPal so they can make it looking you’re not paying the PayPal fee for selling anymore, but in reality the overall cost has increased even though it’s all in house now.. crazy!

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      outlander on 11/04/2021 - 20:52

      +4

      It's almost a joke the way they did it.
      Standard procedure for sneaky scumbag stuff is to give a much better deal initially to fool people, and then raise it a little after a year, then again the year after, before finally dropping the pretense and charging the same as before or before.

      Ebays so greedy they couldn't even bear to let go of any profit. They gave a small discount for a few months, then decided it was too much pain to bear and jacked it up.

      Nevertheless, as crappy as ebay is it's a good deal. Thanks Op 👍

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  Sir Flabo on 11/04/2021 - 20:41

  +4

  This belongs in the forums. EBay are dodgy, they sent me promos about their "cheaper" price fees. Except when it actually came down to it, they're now charging me more then when PayPal were in the equation.

  All their schemes offer incentives for first adopters until there's a critical mass. Then they pull the rug out and rail everyone with fees.

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    [Deactivated] on 11/04/2021 - 20:57

    +2

    Well… I did address this when I said you would potentially be very vulnerable to having wasted alot of time if they revert back to the default. But in my case (and I am sure the case of many eBay sellers), it's really not hard to duplicate a few thousand listings and play around with the keywords, then if they revert back, just bulk edit and bulk end the listings you don't want or need.

    In the respect of the fees, if you have a store (which is the assumption here as it is a critical component of the deal), nothing much has changed. The fees are roughly what they were before (New eBay FVF fees = old eBay FVF + PayPal fees). All payment gateways charge a fee. Shopify does it with credit cards (1.75% or so, last I checked).

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    dins on 11/04/2021 - 21:00

    +4

    Not only that but since managed payments have come in their no FVF or $1 FVF promos etc have stopped working. This has been going on for over six months and the best their help can seem to offer now is to ask to wait over 2 weeks for the "system" to automatically refund. When their promo counters themselves are glitching and even disappearing from promo history that's nothing more than utter BS.

    Also the FVFs don't actually appear in your seller account anymore as they are automatically deducted from the buyer's payment. Pretty sure there are a lot of people using no FVF or discounted FVF promos out there but are totally unaware that they are actually getting charged fees since their seller account shows no fees being charged.

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      Sir Flabo on 11/04/2021 - 21:07

      +1

      I had a store for about 3 years. Based off the criteria for their promos and the amount of partnered discounts they offer, they clearly are moving away from the eBay of old where smaller retailers and individuals were encouraged to sell. Now it's all about subsidising promotions that incentivise the big retailers to stay and sell on eBay.

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        [Deactivated] on 11/04/2021 - 21:24

        +1

        Yeah I don't know. I am a small store and regularly get offered contracts for partnered discounts and such (in fact I am on one now). It's probably too much mucking around these days for a one off sale though. For an online seller though, there's really no other viable alternatives. Amazon is still in its infancy here in Australia, and I honestly think it's a long way off getting enough traction to get all the big sellers to move over to there (I could be wrong, but in my field I don't see anyone moving off of eBay or talking about Amazon yet).

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          Sir Flabo on 11/04/2021 - 21:48

          +1

          @[Deactivated]: It depends on your product. Mine were collectible cards where the profit margin is quite tight and profit is based on volume.

          We already had to cook shipping into the price of an item to be eligible for the free shipping promoted sales. So when eBay plus came out it seemed great. Except when they forced the free express shipping criteria in it meant that sellers like me using envelopes had to pony up an extra $4.5 by default on each sale.

          So you have to remove yourself from the eBay plus criteria because you'll lose money on each plus sale. Except eBay's algorithm buries you if you're not providing their 'excellent' services. So my sales sharply dropped right after I removed the eBay plus promotion.

          I used to have a partnership deal with PayPal that provided me a reduced fee % which was removed through the eBay payment transition. All these seemingly small increments add up and kill niche businesses like mine. In fairness, you're right on the limited options outside of eBay and there's a strong argument that my store would have died out anyway. At the end of the day, it's just frustrating and eBay only seems to clinch use more and more

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            [Deactivated] on 11/04/2021 - 22:01

            +2

            @Sir Flabo: Sorry to hear about your business mate.

            eBay backflipped on the Express Post thingy, now they give you $4 towards the Express Post cost (which is more than enough if its really small, and not quite enough if its mid size). If it is a big item then Express Post will never be a viable option, so in the case of my big items I am sure to make sure they are not eligible for eBay Plus.

            And yes I agree you have to basically tick all of eBays boxes and be exactly what they want you to be or you will be buried at the bottom of search results at best, banned permanently at worst.

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  King Tightarse on 11/04/2021 - 21:07

  +3

  I have dead links on my eBay page, different fonts and styles on different pages within my eBay.
  Promos haven't worked properly since last year. I am amazed that they are implementing these big changes as they seem to have lost the plot with the basic stuff. eBay customer service don't seem to have a clue.
  eBay is a coding disaster zone these days - its just a mess.

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    [Deactivated] on 11/04/2021 - 22:13

    +2

    eBay CC is abysmal no doubt about that. My only workaround has been to learn the names of the various managers and establish rapport with them. Now if things don't go my way right away I just get transferred to them (I request them by their names) and they deal with me so regularly that they just fix it all for me. Actually some days my chat window with eBay managers stays opened for hours and we keep talking back and forth about the cricket or whatever LOL. I only do this because I think it is wise to have manager friends at eBay in case anything ever goes wrong.

    As for the coding, yeah it's far from perfect, but I actually like it for what it does. Bulk editing and Markdown Manager etc. etc. but then I am not an IT person so even these basic things are really helpful for me. You gotta remember (like Shopify) it is built for and geared towards those who doesn't know any code or anything about IT.

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  chakel on 12/04/2021 - 00:37

  so it’s not worth paying for anchor now?

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  [Deactivated] on 12/04/2021 - 00:41

  The only determining factor is now sales volume.

  The variance in fees (generally <1%) needs to more than offset the additional store subscription (around $550 per month - back of the envelope calculation)

  If you have over $50K sales a month anchor store is still probably worthwhile. If you have considerably less than that, you should consider stepping back down (if you are on managed payments, of course)

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  centrelink on 12/04/2021 - 13:17

  +2

  The ebay forum is trashed. I remember I said the word "Amazon" and the whole post got deleted because I used the word "Amazon".

  Talk about communism…