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Subject: 
EBAY Listing Fee Increases - Anti-LEGO?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory
Date: 
Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:31:43 GMT
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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 message:
---------
"Today, we are announcing two changes to the current eBay price structure.
Effective Wednesday, January 31, 2001, we are increasing insertion fees and
adding a charge to the 10-day listing option.  Final value fees, other feature
fees and insertion fees for vehicles, eBay Premier and Real Estate remain
unchanged.

Insertion Fees
Here are the old and new price schedules for insertion fees:

Opening Value       Current Insertion Fee     New Insertion Fee
or Reserve Price
$0.01 - $9.99              $0.25                  $0.30
$10.00 - $24.99            $0.50                  $0.55
$25.00 - $49.99            $1.00                  $1.10
$50.00 -$199.99            $2.00                  $2.20
$200 and up                $2.00                  $3.30

10-Day Listing Option

A new ten-cent ($0.10) fee will be implemented for the 10-day listing option.
The three-day, five-day and seven-day auctions will not have an additional fee.

We recognize that price increases directly impact our sellers. The last time
insertion fees or final value fees were increased was December 1996.  We will
continue to build a vibrant marketplace by investing heavily in technology,
marketing and customer support to make it possible for millions of people to
discover and use eBay."



Message has 4 Replies:
  Re: EBAY Listing Fee Increases - Anti-LEGO?
 
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)
  Re: EBAY Listing Fee Increases - Anti-LEGO?
 
(...) 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)
  Re: EBAY Listing Fee Increases - Anti-LEGO?
 
(...) <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)
  Re: EBAY Listing Fee Increases - Anti-LEGO?
 
(...) 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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