Those sales did not include the new fee. The fee has only be active on my account for 1 week. And I have sold nothing all week.
I am not a business seller. I'm just selling off some stuff to try to raise a bit of cash.
Once what i have listed is sold, I will be done.
Anyway, if you think that Ebay adding a few pounds to all your items is a good thing, then good luck to you.
Seems like basic logic to me that increasing the price of an item, will make items less likely to sell.
The business sellers sell mainly brand new stuff that has competition from the likes of Temu, Shien and soon to be numerous other chinese and indian platforms. The one unique thing that Ebay has that these other platforms don't is the private sellers selling rare and antique items that cannot be bought from Temu and the other platforms. If they lose those kind of sellers, they will basically then just be another Temu. If that happens, they are dead. They can never compete successfully with direct from china prices.
Anyway. I guess the point is.....If you don't think adding a few pounds to all your items will affect sales. Then why didn't you add a few pounds to them all yourself?
Not trying to argue or anything but I guess time will tell. Personally, I just cannot see how higher prices can result in more sales. It just doesn't happen unless everyone in the countries wages increase too to compensate.....which is extremely unlikely at current.
Will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next 6 months.
