http://pages.ebay.com/sell/update08/basic/index.html?ov=004KOSo ebay just sent me a message saying their fees have gone down. Great, they've risen too high anyway and are bordering on chasing me away, so a drop would be welcome! I get to reading down and sure enough, the lowest listing fee dropped by a whopping 5 cents
I scroll down a little more checking out the other fee adjustments and get to this:
Final Value Fees for Auction-style and Fixed Price listings
Closing Price Final Value Fee Final Value Fee (effective 02/20/2008)
Item not sold No fee No change
$0.01-$25.00 5.25% of the closing value - 8.75% of the closing value
$25.01 - $1,000.00 5.25% of the initial $25.00, plus 3.25% of the remaining closing value balance ($25.01 to $1,000.00) - 8.75% of the initial $25.00, plus 3.50% of the remaining closing value balance ($25.01 to $1,000.00)
Over $1,000.01 5.25% of the initial $25.00, plus 3.25% of the initial $25.00 - $1,000.00 plus 1.50% of the remaining closing value balance ($1,000.01 - closing value) - 8.75% of the initial $25.00, plus 3.50% of the initial $25.00 - $1,000.00 plus 1.50% of the remaining closing value balance ($1,000.01 - closing value)
Holy crap! Final value fees are now going up to nearly 9%! Where do they draw the line? At what point do you just say screw it and decide to no longer deal with their high fees and general incompetence? I'm pretty sure I'll be sitting down and figuring what all I need to try selling before february 20th, then just stick to craigslist unless I get a high dollar item I can only offload on ebay. This sucks!
