Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Ebay fees just jumped way up!

If you sell anything on eBay I am sure you just got the email from them informing you of the new listing and selling fees. I just took a look at them and all I can say is that eBay will now be known far and wide as GREED-BAY. They use to charge a 5.25% fee on the selling price of items under $25. Now that fee has jumped to 8.75%!! That's a $1.75 on a $20 item, up .70 cents over the old fees. Sure they now charge about .05 cents less on most insertion fees but that is only to get you to list more so they can charge more at the selling end. My guess is that eBay is now hurting for business. I know from their message boards that many former eBay sellers now sell on Amazon.com and like it there better.

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