What are Ebay playing at?

20+ year Ebay veteran here, 

 

I have never seen it this quiet.

 

Views are up, listing views are up, all overall traffic is up, but people aren't buying! 

 

Is this due to the mobile phone app not working on older phones? More fees? Disgruntlement? Poor economic outlook or the perfect storm of all these factors? 

 

I'm doing three times the sales on Etsy with half of the same listings! What is going on? 

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Hi

 

Yes same here. Last time I have good sales on Friday after jyst dropped. I putting every day minimum 10 new items. But yesterday and today very quiet almost nothing. They do again something. Probably next week after when done some other updates  we will see what was that and sells probably little wake up again.

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I have never promoted here or there, I feel I pay enough to sell and shouldn't have to pay to be seen too.

 

Plus there is always someone bigger that will pay more to promote and be above you anyway so it seems like a waste of money to me 

 

Final value fees depend on the sale price, I am sure there is a etsy online calculator you can use to work out the fees, have a google.

 

Yes 20p upfront, if you know any etsy sellers tho you can always ask them for their code and then you get 40 free listings, that is how I started.

 

Oh and if you don't sell something it doesn't renew each month like on here it is every 4 months 

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Et sy has higher selling fees (including listing fees).

 

Personally, I don't rate Et sy much but it really depends on what you're selling. The problem I've found with Et sy is that it's not a straightforward selling platform - success is heavily reliant on a social media following, which I find utterly ridiculous - if you need/want something, just *bleep* buy it! 

 

I find many visitors view Et sy as an extension of Instagram, rather than a bona fide online marketplace. IMO, Es ty has too many 'window shoppers'.

 

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Promoting on ebay worked for me however I see that people on et sy sell the exact items I have for more and people are ready to pay! When renewing are you charged £0.20 again? So is it just £0.20 per item to have it all listed there? Thank you for your help.

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I haven't looked at your items but I assume you only have one of each.

 

For a listing with 1 item it will cost you 20p to list the item, if it sells you obviously have the other fees to pay and if it doesn't sell it will renew after four months charging you another 20p

 

For a listing with 5 items, each time one sells it will renew charging you the 20p again plus the other selling fees. 

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no surprise, when I see how much they charge on et sy I also mostly do window shopping there

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so you basically approached a seller you bought from in the past to ask for a code? I am registered on et sy (so far as a buyer only)

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No, I got it from a friend who was already selling on there

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ok and do you use et sy payments or pay pal there?

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40 listings where £0.20 per listing equals £8 to get started.  I can take that risk no problem with my items.

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Etsy Payments 

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It's $0.20 (Some charges are in $) and the listing stays live for three - or maybe four, can't remember - months.  On each sale, there's a transaction fee of 6.5% and a payment processing fee of 4% + 20p.

As @krafty-creations says, if you have listing variations, there is a $0.20 charge for each item on the invoice.  For example, if a buyer selects 10 items, you'll be charged $0.20 x 10, plus the transaction and processing fees.  That can take a hefty chunk out of the sale.  Also, I think all the pricing data I've quoted is +VAT.

Once you hit an annual turnover of $10,000, you'll be compulsorily enrolled in the off-site ads program.  Below $10,000, it's optional.  I think it's an extra 12% if the sale comes from an offsite ad - but you can check all this in the help text if you're prepared to dig around.  Etsy have also discovered the money-making potential of halo attribution for off-site ads so, like eBay, the buyer looked at one item from an off-site ad but bought something else - and you get charged extra.

I find that Etsy fees are marginally less than eBay fees.  If I didn't have variations, the fees would be a couple of % less.

Another difference between the sites is that eBay is totally up-front with the basic fees and the financial statements are easy to read.  eBay wants your money, it gets your money, and it clearly shows exactly what it's taken and why.  Etsy's a complete muddle.  If I were VAT registered, it would drive me mad.

 

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Thank you! I sell mostly vintage jewellery so I will get started next week and see how it goes.

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thank you for sharing your experience over there!

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Once you hit an annual turnover of $10,000, you'll be compulsorily enrolled in the off-site ads program.

 

I believe you can actually opt out now if you are a UK or EU seller even if you go over the $10,000, Etsy make it very difficult to do tho, something to do with EU online selling laws.

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well, we are in the UK so those laws don't apply

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You clearly ignore UK laws anyway.

 

At least if your selling on Etsy, you will be actually paying some fees, instead of getting it free here.

 

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I’ve stopped buying on eBay due to them now applying fees to buyers at checkout. 

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