DSF

Have I got this right....
If I open a basic shop on Ebay they charge £14.99 per month, then they charge 20p for every item in, then 10% final value fee?

So if you sell an item at £7, they take 20p and 70p plus the paypal fees?

Janners.

I asked ebay on live chat and the answer was unclear, ie just like their explanation on the site.

It's 20p for the listing and approx 10%, but the 20p only counts for the listing, so if you are selling 1 item it's 20p, if you are selling 30 items it's only 20p.

guess it depends on how many listings you are going to have and what functionality you need from Ebay, as without a shop you pay 40p for each buy if now advert (again no matter how many units/variations are in it) but don't pay the monthly fee. You still pay the 10% on each sale, until you get your sales to the point of being powerseller/top rated and you get a small discount.

And they have just cut the powerseller/top rated discount from 20% to 10%!!! Still wouldn't have the sales without them!

If you have a shop, the bin listing is 10p per item, and like mugstar says the powerseller/top rated seller discount has been cut and soon will be gone I feel. But both of the statuses do increase my sales.

You'll also need to take in to account the Paypal fee's i think it's 3.4% plus 20P per transaction.

i thought about ebay shop but didnt see the point when there is plenty of so called printers selling mugs, phones covers at silly prices

All this is pretty academic really what you need to look at is what sales you want (or can cope with) theres a lot of complaining about ebay with good reason most the time but they are improving certain aspects slowly while getting rid of certain benifits also ie the deminishing discounts. But you do need to look at the bigger picture £14 for a shop then an insertion fee then a final valuation fee then a pay pal fee sounds bloody expensive and quite often it is if you arnt selling the volume needed. but take all the facts into account
£14 per month for an ebay shop then insertion fees and final valuation fees .... my physical shop costs me £500 pm and thats just the rent once i take all into account my physical shop costs in excess of £1500 per month
as for paypal fees have you seen how much a credit/debit card operator charges to enable you to take payments on line certainly not cheap ive just looked into it all and decided its cheaper to stick with paypal
then take into account you SEO fees they can cost upwards of £100 pm min ebay do all this for you if i put mirror carp mug in google my ebay shop usually comes up and not my web site so again quite a bargin there when you drill it down.
Lets be honest we all love to slate ebay the public who use ebay can be right royal pains ive just sold a mug today and have recieved a message saying will it be here for sat (biting lip hard) last bank holiday i had a purchase on the sat and on the tuesday they asked where the item was thats bank holiday tuesday ??? and ebay do tend to favour these idiots but ebay are more accessable nowadays and when you tal;k to them they can sometimes be quite reasonable. im afraid ebay could well be the nesassary evil we have to put up with.

Well to be honest there are a great amount that sell my main product on ebay, for really silly money. I stick to quality customer service and my reputation and sell many a week for more than double the price of most of the compition. Yes paypal is 20p plus 3. something % per transaction...

You are so right a necessary evil, I have 3 web sites and like you a lot of my ebay shop shows up so a lot of items before my website. I have tried amazon but for all they say it was not good for my products, but that doesnt mean all products mind. Never having sold mugs or shirts on either I cant comment on them . I am talking ebay in general.

purpledragon;47796 wrote:All this is pretty academic really what you need to look at is what sales you want (or can cope with) theres a lot of complaining about ebay with good reason most the time but they are improving certain aspects slowly while getting rid of certain benifits also ie the deminishing discounts. But you do need to look at the bigger picture £14 for a shop then an insertion fee then a final valuation fee then a pay pal fee sounds bloody expensive and quite often it is if you arnt selling the volume needed. but take all the facts into account
£14 per month for an ebay shop then insertion fees and final valuation fees .... my physical shop costs me £500 pm and thats just the rent once i take all into account my physical shop costs in excess of £1500 per month
as for paypal fees have you seen how much a credit/debit card operator charges to enable you to take payments on line certainly not cheap ive just looked into it all and decided its cheaper to stick with paypal
then take into account you SEO fees they can cost upwards of £100 pm min ebay do all this for you if i put mirror carp mug in google my ebay shop usually comes up and not my web site so again quite a bargin there when you drill it down.
Lets be honest we all love to slate ebay the public who use ebay can be right royal pains ive just sold a mug today and have recieved a message saying will it be here for sat (biting lip hard) last bank holiday i had a purchase on the sat and on the tuesday they asked where the item was thats bank holiday tuesday ??? and ebay do tend to favour these idiots but ebay are more accessable nowadays and when you tal;k to them they can sometimes be quite reasonable. im afraid ebay could well be the nesassary evil we have to put up with.