"As I've covered since mid-Q4, eBay has been telegraphing some big changes coming to the fee structure. The only thing we don't know is what and when. It seems some top sellers are getting calls from TSAMs outlining in general the fee changes that are evidently going to be announced next week with eBay's earnings (eBay is set to announce 1/23 at 5pm EST)."
I've been hearing these rumors ever since eBay held it's month-long gallery promotion in September. It was my hope that a fee decrease would take the form of the current listing fee with gallery added in for free. It doesn't sound like that's what's coming, though:
"The tidbits I'm hearing:
- Certain categories will go to low listing, high FVF for fixed-price listings - based on who is being told this, I'd say we're looking at BMV, auto-parts and other 'high density/low conversion' categories.
- Bulk discounts - eBay is being vague here, but it looks like they are finally considering some kind of break for sellers that are doing a ton of listings."
I like the idea of lower listing fees, of course, but I fear that if they are too low it will just open the floodgates for a lot of low-priced junk on the site in the same way that the lack of listing fees on Amazon has resulted in thousands of books priced at a penny on the site.
It will be interesting to see what happens.
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