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They're increasing the listing fees across the board. In particular, they're discouraging small auctions by increasing the opening bids on lots starting under $10 by 20%, whereas other opening bid listings are only increasing 10%. Here's the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: EBAY Listing Fee Increases - Anti-LEGO?
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I guess they have to pay for all those TV ads somehow. Yahoo! just started charging this past week for auctions.They only charge to list, no charge on the final value: $0.01 - $9.99 $0.20 $10.00 - $24.99 $0.35 $25.00 - $49.99 $0.75 $50.00 and up (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: EBAY Listing Fee Increases - Anti-LEGO?
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(...) fee. (...) It's time to short the stock (although the stock is down substancially from its high of about 128$ in march 2000). Those company have very little fixed costs and the costs of bandwidth are decreasing. As for advertising, companies (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: EBAY Listing Fee Increases - Anti-LEGO?
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(...) <snip> Which makes me wonder... are they trying to reduce the number of "lets list it for 25-cents and take whatever we get" type of auctions (many of which get no bids) ar do they view this portion of the market as having the highest return (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | RE: EBAY Listing Fee Increases - Anti-LEGO?
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(...) I think you guys are making this way too difficult. My guess: they decided to implement a 10% increase. 10% of .25 is only 2.5 cents, which doesn't make for a nice round number. Rather than leave it at .25 they raised it to .30. How many (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
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This increase will not discourage people from listing. If it does discourage people from listing, then there will not be as much items up for bid, so then the person who did list item(s) will reap the benefit of more bids on their auction(s), which (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: EBAY Listing Fee Increases - Anti-LEGO?
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(...) Ah, did you want them to go to 27.5 cents so they'd hew to a strict 10% increase in fees across the board. That seems silly to me. (snipped away most of the ebay mail sent to all of us to leave just the listing fees) (...) ++Lar (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
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