I use to sell items on eBay. I even had an eBay store last year. I closed it in early September 2007 after only having it for 5 months. The fees that eBay charged for listing each item and then charging another fee once the item sold was eating up all my profits. After doing the math I shut the eBay store down and sold off the rest of my items in my online (not on eBay) store.
Well I am glad I made that move. This morning I get an email from eBay letting me know they have "lowered" their fees. I checked it out and yes they did lower their listing fees but they hiked up their final sales fees from around 5% to 8.25%. Most of my items sell for $25 and under so a $25.00 item would now have fees of around $2.50 versus the $1.50 before the new fees took affect. But that is only a $1.00 more but the more expensive items would have a larger final sales fee. I really do believe that eBay fever is winding down now. There must be another company waiting in the wings to take over when people really stop shopping on eBay.
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