As you may or may not know Ebay has once again raised the fees charged to the sellers. This means they must raise the prices they charge you just to remain at the same place they were before!
To demonstrate these changes I am showing just a few of the more outrageous inflation of the fees here:
the cost to the seller of a
$50 item went from $3.06 to $4.50 that is an increase in fee of $1.44 or 47% and for a
$75 item went from $3.94 to $6.75 that is an increase in fee of $2.81 or 71% and for a
$100 item went from $4.81 to $9.00 that is an increase in fee of $4.19 or 87%
If the seller has a store they fare slightly better with only a 43% increase at $50, 37% increase at $75, and 32% at $100 price point. This is in addition to store fees and those can change at anytime too.
Auction Bytes (which has been around for years providing advice and forums to online sellers) has a few interesting choices for alternative venues here
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/pages/sc_venues_10
and Powersellersunite has a day by day listing of who has how many listings and if they are trending up or down which of course is not the only reason to use a particular venue to sell or buy from since ease of use and reliability play such key roles.
http://www.powersellersunite.com/auctionsitewatch.php
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