Ebay fees going up

[JAY PS]

UK

On 30 March, 2010 some of the fees for selling a vehicle on eBay Motors will be changing.

 

Reserve fee

If you choose to set a reserve price for your vehicle, the fee for doing this will increase from £4.00 to £7.99.

 

Buy It Now

If you would like to include a Buy It Now option on an auction listing, this will now cost £2.99 instead of £0.99.

 

Classified Ad

The fee to insert a classified ad on eBay Motors will increase to £14.99 from £12.99.

 

Picture Pack

You may now select the Picture Pack option for free. This was previously charged at £1.25.

 

All other fees for sellers on eBay Motors will remain the same

[JAY PS]

Robin hood spring to mind ,dont they earn enough money !

 

People i talk to are going to pistonheads and autotrader !

[Mrs O/H/C]

Thats a bit steep

[banarama]

like every thing the more popular it gets more money/ used to be able to get a bargain ,hard work now.

[andy a]

The thing is that when you compare the coverage you get on Ebay compared to other sites its still cost effective, not sure what Autotrader charge these days but used to run at 40 odd quid a week for a basic box ad, makes 15 quid for a classified on thiefbay look good

[retrorigg]

people including me will just stop selling things on it if there starting to get greedy

[andy a]

people including me will just stop selling things on it if there starting to get greedy

 

They started to get greedy 5 years ago, then they got even more greedy 3 years ago and a lot of sellers said they were leaving, then again 18 months ago and again a lot of sellers said they were off but stayed, I was running probably 45% of my business through there 3 years ago but now dont touch it unless I've got a couple of personal bits to get rid of...

 

The moral being that lots will say they will leave but wont, Ebay will continue to earn more money a month than most will see in their life times and the world will still go round

 

Before I walked away from selling on Ebay I looked at a lot of alternatives to replace the (rapidly decreasing) lost revenue, and the answer was... there isn't one, 99.9% of people wanting to sell something aim it in Ebay's direction without a second thought, the other auctions that are out there dont have the amount of traffic available to generate sales and therefore cant generate the revenue needed to pay for the advertising to generate the traffic, its a vicious cycle that anyone thinking of competing with them would need to find millions to fund their way through and would need a lot of time and a back wind to still make a go of it, as much as I'd like to see a viable alternative spring up I cant see it happening just now

[BIGKEV]

I had a viable alternative but then along came my daughter who took up all my time - and it was free.

 

ho hum - maybe I'll win the LOTTery

[Slammed]

thats so crap, there too greedy not like thaey have not got millions in their banks!

 

best get selling before 30th march then

[Vista]

Thats a bit steep

 

You think?

 

£14.99 for a months classified ad from eBay

 

against

 

£30 for 2 weeks in autotrader (online only) or £49 for 6 weeks.

 

eBay still looks to be the cheaper buy to me and I sold my Z4 recently through a classified ad on it, having had nothing but time wasters on Autotrader.

[escortmatt]

they want to start enfourcing the rules then when u sell something and they dont even turn up they should be banned

[banarama]

i agree with that

[JAY PS]

i get more proper buyers from pistonheads and autotrader or forum

ebayers just want a 100 per cent cars for 50 per cent prices!