Ebay and other online auction powerselling tips and information

Effective Januaray 30th, eBay will be raising it's fees again.

Here are the details:

Insertion Fees
We're increasing the Insertion Fee for the $1.00 to $9.99 level from thirty-five cents to forty cents.

Final Value Fees
We're increasing the Final Value Fee for the $25.01 to $1,000.00 level from 3% to 3.25%.

Please note that there are no fee adjustments for eBay Stores or Store Inventory listings.

eBay Motors Fees
The Insertion Fees and Final Values Fees mentioned above will also apply to eBay Motors Parts & Accessories categories.

For eBay Motors Vehicles categories, we are making these adjustments:

 

• The Transaction Services Fee for both Motorcycles and Powersports is increasing from $30.00 to $40.00.
• The Transaction Services Fee for Cars & Trucks and all Other Vehicles & Trailers categories is increasing from $40.00 to $50.00.
• The Motors Reserve Fee is changing from a flat $5.00 to 0.1% of the reserve price, with a minimum of $5.00 and a maximum of $10.00. (The Reserve Fee is refunded when bidding meets the reserve price.)

Sell though prices and traffic is down on the auction site so the only way easy way to show growth in revenue is to raise fees, again.

Bill Cobb, President, eBay North America claims the changes are "modest" but some are reporting the change could mean an additional 4-7% more in fees.