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psunite
Joined: 27 Jan 2005
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Location: Columbus OH
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject: eBay Strike in UK Makes Headlines, US Sellers Bothered over |
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Tuesday was not an easy day for eBay as international fallout over its Stores policies continued.
In North America, sellers are upset with eBay's latest promotion and how it may effect the fees they pay for Store listings. The 2-day "Store-to-Core" promotion allows sellers to move listings from their Stores to the core (non-Stores) platform for 10 cents, a significant bargain over regular core listing fees (http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m08/i15/s01).
But sellers say that 7-day core listings would expire after the new higher Store fees go into effect. While sellers who leave listings in Stores can relist them for 30 days at the current 2-cents per listing fee, those who move listings to core and then move unsold items back to Stores on or after August 22 will pay the higher Store listing fees.
One seller wrote to AuctionBytes, "Anyone who empties out their stores to go to auction format today will find that their auctions end on August 22nd. And what is August 22nd? The day the rate hike takes place! So any store owners will then be paying the huge increases to put their inventory back in their stores!" She recommended sellers who take advantage of the promotion run 5-day listings on core so they have time to relist unsold items in Stores with the current lower fees.
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2BOYSandTOYS
Joined: 14 Mar 2005
Posts: 10095
Location: Kansas
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject: Re: eBay Strike in UK Makes Headlines, US Sellers Bothered o |
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| Now that's funny that the press is repeating strategies on how to 'move' items with less expense!! :roll: :roll: |
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Pipphoe
Joined: 14 Aug 2005
Posts: 1231
Location: Long Island, New York
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: eBay Strike in UK Makes Headlines, US Sellers Bothered o |
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| Interesting article -- yet again. Missed this promo -- never made it to my e-mail :shock: What a way to dupe a bunch of sellers into paying eBay a ton of $$$$. I'm so glad I don't deal with this company as a seller anymore. I always did have a difficult time being able to jump at one of these silly fee promos. I just want to be at a place where I can work on growing my business, where I know what the price is all the time, and I can work on marketing strategies instead of the latest Ebay self-serving promo. With the current STR at eBay being what it is, there's a lot of work being done for little or no return for sellers -- again. |
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mojavelyn
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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Location: Mojave Desert CA 120 miles from civilization
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| You know Cathy ... me too!!! LOL!!! |
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