toybuyer
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posted on February 28, 2001 01:22:37 PM new
For a $24.99 purchase effective March 14:
.55 + 1.25 for Ebay
.35 + .62 BillPoint
.05 + .25 Auctionwatch
Equals $3.07 or 12.3% of sale price in fees. (I'm not complaining, yet!) Anything I'm missing assuming that I'm using USPS priority mail and not charging a handling fee?
Thanks
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cdnbooks
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posted on February 28, 2001 01:33:57 PM new
Plus any eBay optional fees, gallery or second category, bold etc.
Bill
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grandmarosie
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posted on February 28, 2001 02:05:56 PM new
Question (please excuse my ignorance )What are the AW charges for?
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grandmarosie
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posted on February 28, 2001 02:08:37 PM new
Please disregard my first post, I just read the new terms....
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Puddy
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posted on February 28, 2001 02:15:50 PM new
toybuyer,
Just one more thing. Cost of Goods.(grin)
John
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unknown
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posted on February 28, 2001 02:22:01 PM new
Sounds like you need a $3.07 handling fee
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toybuyer
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posted on February 28, 2001 03:10:55 PM new
Unknown:
Thank you for pointing that the $3.07 handling fee; I needed the laugh! I'm sure that will go really well with the increased postal fees.
not toybuyer on ebay
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magazine_guy
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posted on February 28, 2001 03:17:07 PM new
Well, yeah.
All eBay sellers are in the same boat, really. So everyone's business expenses are going up. These fees ultimately have to be passed along to the buyer/bidders, or the sellers will ultimately go out of business.
And I think that a reasonable handling fee to cover these sorts of costs is ethical and appropriate. Most buyers recognize this.
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reston_ray
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posted on February 28, 2001 04:48:12 PM new
Price increase usually have a negative effect on the number of units sold when they are implemented from only one supply source, no additional benefit is added and other sources exist.
Online auction sales compete with other methods for buyer to secure items. If the online market increase it price it will likely have lower unit sales than it would have experienced with lower prices.
Sellers have to constantly evaluate how they fit into the equation.
If everything else stays the same and sellers, on average, have a 20% margin on gross sales they will have a 5% reduction in net, pre tax income for increases in expenses that equal 1% of gross sales.
There will be an ever increasing amount of money changing hands as a result of online auction/fixed price sales. I have no problem with AW attempting to get their share. I'm trying to do the same thing.
Who gets to keep how much is ever more interesting.
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jadejim
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posted on February 28, 2001 04:50:39 PM new
And taxes
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jwoodcrafts
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posted on February 28, 2001 05:14:14 PM new
The bottom line for me is simply this...I don't think I can afford listing and closing fees to 2 different sites for the "same auction"! My items are not real high dollar so every penny counts for me.
http://www.geocities.com/sandcastless/crafts.html
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kleavitt
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posted on February 28, 2001 06:45:18 PM new
Your math is way off. You did not include the HIDDEN FEES and other costs of sales:
Cost of goods held for NPB
Cost of phony claims (never received my item, it arrived all broken but I didn't have any insurance so I want a refund, it has a hole in it, it doesn't look like the same shade of chartreuse as in your image, etc)
Time spent waiting in line at the PO
Time spent waiting for the AW servers to come alive after going down
Time spent taking images, writing descriptions and posting listings
etc
etc
AW is the straw and we are the camel.
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